Official Sony 46 " & 52 " Sony BRAVIA XBR6 Settings and Calibration Thread

I used the SpyderTV tool and came up with:

Brightness - 54
Color - 75
Color Temp - Warm 2
Contrast - 96
Tint - 13
Sharpness - Not on the report, I'll post it later.

I am going to try to run HCFR one of these days.

My settings are a slight alteration on the CNET ones:

Cinema
Backlight: 5
Picture: 92
Brightness: 52
Color: 60
Hue: 0
Color Temp: Warm 1
Sharpness: 12
Noise Reduction: Low
MPEG NR: Off
Advanced Settings:
Black Corrector: Off
Advanced C.E.: Off
Gamma: Low
Clear White: Off
Color Space: Standard
White Balance:
Rgain (-1)
Ggain (-4)
Bgain (-1)
Rbias (-2)
Gbias (0)
Bbias (0)
Motion Enhancer: Standard

My settings are. (I have my 52XBR6 sitting next to and matched very closely to a 40" Sony XBR800 CRT.)

Custom
Backlight: 2
Picture: 80
Brightness: 45
Color: 45
Hue: 0
Color Temp: Natural
Sharpness: 5
Noise Reduction: Off (can't see any difference when it's ON)
MPEG NR: Off
Advanced Settings:
Black Corrector: Off
Advanced C.E.: Off
Gamma: High
Clear White: Off
Color Space: Standard
White Balance:
Rgain (-1)
Ggain (-2)
Bgain (0)
Rbias (-1)
Gbias (-2)
Bbias (0)
Motion Enhancer: Standard

I have only had the TV for a day and may be making some changes to these settings, but this gets me very close to the calibrated 40" CRT.

Thanks Korat.
I am trying out your settings and so far it looks great. Let me know if you fine tune them further.

I appreciate everyone sharing their settings. This one I preferred the most with my set.

Thanks!

Haven't had the chance to try too many different settings yet on my 46xbr6. But prior experience has helped, first just choose the default settings from "custom", and they look pretty good with both blu-ray and cable SD and HD.


So far, this seemed to be the best help for cable SD:

Changed 'standard' to be just like 'custom' (these segttings are easily reset to default, and since I wasn't using standard, this would make it easy to switch back and forth) except for 3 things, noise reduction to HIGH and mpeg noise reduction to HIGH. Also turned motion enhancer to off.

This cleared up the SD channels quite a bit. Will experiment more later.

just picked up the 52xbr6 tonight on a whim, and with the wife's blessing!!

i figured there would be more posts of calibrations settings in here!!

i will be setting up my set on friday (yes, waiting 3 days is going to kill me!!) after xmas is over, and i will try the setting posted here and report back.

thanks
tony

Just got around to trying CNET's 'dark room' settings (the only settings they have), WOW! very nice...

These present the most realistic colors and blacks I've seen. Just as good if not better (the blacks certainly are) then all the different settings tried on my xbr4.

It makes for an exceptionally realistic picture. Will be using them for any HD source during the evening. They are still good during the day but may have to be tweeked somewhat for bright rooms.

Definitely worth trying if you haven't already...

I cannot find Cnets calibrations...link

Thanks!!

Ignore...just found it!

For others who are looking.

CNET's Dark Room Settings

Posted this in the Owners thread but also appropriate here:

Wanted to give everyone a head's up on something learned from the xbr4:

The picture settings may not function exactly the way you think they would, regarding their hierarchy...

Color Temperature (warm2 warm1 neutral cool) are "interconnected" with white balance.

What this means is that if you set "cinema" to "warm1" and change the "white balance" settings also, then any other "picture mode" (standard, custom, vivid) that is also set to "warm1" will now be using the new "white balance" settings you just entered for "warm1".

So of the 4 picture modes (and this is within ea connection type, it's not for ALL connections, ea individual connection is separate), only 1 picture mode (say cinema) can have say "warm1 and -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3" (or whatever you choose). If you change (say) custom to "warm1 and +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 (or whatever)", your settings for cinema will now be the same as regards the white balance you just set for custom. This only effects white balance, nothing else changes.

So again, within ea connection, you can only have one set of warm1 (or warm2 etc etc) and specific white balance settings.

This can come as a surprise when you're testing settings and change the color temperature and then find you've reset the white balance settings without realizing it.

Regards,

this thread has too much activity so thought I'd add to the mayhem

These are slight tweeks to the default custom settings and wow, they really do have some pop to them, without being unrealistic... my abbreviations should make sense it's all in order.

CUSTOM
BL = 5
Pic = 68
Brt = 53
Color = 51
Hue = 0
Col Temp = warm1
Sharp = 10
N.R. = Low
Mpeg NR = off
Blk cor = off
Adv CE = Med
Gamma = off
Clr wht = off
Col Spc = Std
L.C. = off (grayed)
W.Bal = -3, -4, -1, -2, 0, 0
Motion Enhancer = std
CineMotion = off

There's already a thread for the 52", no need to duplicate.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...378&highlight=

Actually if you look at the date and time of the thread starters. You would see that both these threads were started on the same day but this one was started 6 hours earlier.

Therefore this is the original and the other thread you linked is the duplicate.

AND I'd point out guys, the 46 and the 52 SETTINGS should be the same, they are both the same machine except for size of screen.

this thread, which includes both, seems more appropriate to me anyway...

jmho, thnx

I was flipping between Custom and Cinema. Has anyone noticed if Cinema adds fake grain to the image? Is this particular to the Bravia Engine?

Regardless, since the other thread actually has posts of settings is far more useful wouldn't you say?

This one is full of people asking a bunch of questions with just two posting their settings.

Please understand that I love my settings to produce as much "pop" as possible. This is what I have so far.

This set is for primarily HD television.

CUSTOM
BL = 7
Pic = 94
Brt = 49
Color = 60
Hue = 0
Col Temp = neutral
Sharp = 16
N.R. = Low
Mpeg NR = off
Blk cor = off
Adv CE = Med
Gamma = off
Clr wht = off
Col Spc = Std
L.C. = off (grayed)
W.Bal = -3, -4, -1, -2, 0, 0
Game Mode = off
Motion Enhancer = std
CineMotion = auto 1

This second set is for Gaming on 360 and PS3.


CUSTOM
BL = 8
Pic = 98
Brt = 49
Color = 64
Hue = 0
Col Temp = neutral
Sharp = 20
N.R. = off
Mpeg NR = off
Blk cor = off
Adv CE = med
Gamma = med
Clr wht = off
Col Spc = wide
L.C. = off
W.Bal = -3, -4, -1, -2, 0, 0
Game Mode = on
Motion Enhancer = off
CineMotion = off

I'd say also twak, those are waaaay bright settings. Each to their own of course, but if someone is on the fence about this, one thing to think about:

How high the back light and contrast are turned up = how hot they get. TV getting hot not good.

Enjoy no matters what

*Actually*, if you look there was this thread which was started a few days before this one.


Oddly enough, I originally thought there should be a thread for ALL XBR6 sets (hey, they had one combined thread for all XBR4/XBR5 sets), which is why I started the combined thread.

Given the reported differences in viewing angles I wonder how similar the sets are. Especially when, in the states, there's a 46" Z and no 52" Z.

I was comparing the linked thread, don't take things so personal. Even though you are a major contributor to this thread and the main XBR 6 thread, I have witnessed you get in several squabbles.

That being said if you have such a need to be right, then you are right. You started that thread a couple days before and then killed it.

Lighten up just a little.

Don't assume I was taking it personal. Someone suggested you were duplicating things and you said this thread as a whole 6 hours older. I just was setting the record straight that this one was several days newer. Folks wanted to separate things out for some reason, and I think that under that rationale the 52" and 46" sets are different enough (look at the viewing angles differences) that the 52" should have it's own thread.

Hi there,
I too would like some "pop" from my xbr6, and am getting none. i've tried every setting i can possible tweak, followed other's suggestions, and get nothing but a very dull, dingy image. kind of like i want to peel a film off the screen. I literally exchanged it for a new one because it looked so dull and the second one...SAME.

So, beyond adjustments, i have a Question - the "backlight" adjustment - should this change the overall picture? i would think so, but on both TVs that adjustment from zero to ten doesn't make even the slightest difference. i thought the first TV was just a lemon, but a few of the controls on this one do not work either.

any insight would be MUCH appreciated.

Not sure what's going on there. I can tell you when I adjust my backlight from 3 to 4 there is a significant increase in overall brightness. 0 - 10 and no difference? Seems very odd to me.

Not sure if this was discussed but turn off the light sensor. It makes the picture look drab!

YES. as soon as i turned it off the picture immediately got brighter and the "backlight" picture setting was then adjustable.

i don't suppose there's any kind of adjustment to help the off angle viewing? the color literally changes when sitting on one end of the couch to the other. pretty bad off angle, i'd say. other than that it looks great.

From what I've noticed so far, the off angle viewing is the most notable in peoples faces. And that is seen mostly if the mode is set to warm2. With the settings I have that use Neutral, the off angle issue seems quite a bit lessened. Anyone else notice this?

Make sure the TV is not in photo mode. I tried it and get what you decribed from my moto PVR 6412 via componant. Very drap & soft. With PC using componant & photo mode it does not make much diff.