Best Buy Calibration???

There is a whole thread on this just a few threads down when you posted this.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=995295

Basically you need to find out what tools they're using and what processes their calibration consists of since every BB's calibration team seem to be of different quality personnel/equipment.

Where do you see this for $200.00? I look on their website at it says $300.00

It is definitely better than no calibration, but depending on what display you're talking about there could be significant reasons to use a different calibrator for optimum results.

Actually that also depends on the calibrator they send. Some have managed to make their customers' displays worse than out of the box.

Your "best buy" is to order CalMan from SpectraCal for $199 that includes an i1d2 and do it yourself!

I do not agree. I have seen some make the display much worse than OTB.

Think we've had a few calibrators say they did more work than usual b/c they had to fix what BB messed up.

Slide the contrast to less than 50%...

Turn off all enhancements, turn off the sharpness, take the color out of the picture and adjust brightness for the blacks, slide the contrast up until you get nice bright highlights, put the color back in.

Or, you can hand the guy from best buy $199 to do the same...

your choice

I can see that happening. I have limited experience with seeing BBY calibration results, but what I've seen has been okay, and better than OTB anyway. I did the BBY training(it was amusing), and it wouldn't surprise me at all that someone who was not interested in learning additionally on their own and didn't really care at all about their work could easily make this worse. :/

I wouldn't give them 2 hundred for that, not even $50 for that matter !!

You're wrong on this actually. Changing the TV setting from Vivid/Dynamic to Movie/Cinema modes alone will save plenty of power and prolong the life of the LCD, and that is part of the calibration. The sad part is, depending on the calibrator they use, some might actually set your display to Vivid/Dynamic mode.