Official LG xxLD550 xxLD520 xxLD650 Owners Thread - Page 138

Yup... you were right. Mfg date October 2010

Watched Deathly hallows last night... looking good. Haven't had a chance to do my amateur calibration yet, so I watched it in "vivid" mode fir the most part. Don't usually like that kind of bright display, but damn, vivid is a good description.

I had it for about a day and then dropped it when I discovered what their blackout policy entailed so I never really watched it. I forget what your issue is but could you watch it via another source (pc maybe?) to see if the problem still exists? Sorry, I'm not much help but my coffee hasn't kicked in yet.

I had my meter on my TV yesterday and noticed some strange behavior when switching between picture modes.

My original intent was to develop daytime calibration. Since I have a very bright room during the day, I was going to start with 65ftL light output at 100IRE and see how it looked. After adjusting the the basic controls to obtain this target, I got curious about the 100IRE light output of the Vivid and Sport preset, so I switched over and measured them (Sport measured brightest at 118ftL). Anyways, when I switched back to ISF Expert2 to continue, I was no longer at 65ftL @100IRE - it was much higher. I continued taking measurements and noted that the light output was dropping slowly with each reading. After 2-3 minutes it finally settled back down to the original 65ftL I had before switching a super-bright picture mode. I repeated this process many times with the same result. I found that the only way to get ISF Expert2 to immediately 'recover' from viewing an extremely bright picture mode was to cycle the power on the TV.

So, my conclusion is that my 47LD520 can't make an immediate change between picture settings that are drastically different from one another. I am wondering if this indicates something is wrong with my set, or is normal LCD behavior, or is common behavior amongst the LG LD series.

I would really appreciate it if someone else with a meter (Phase ) would try this and let me know if you see the same results.

That is very interesting. For us, the daytime lighting in our family room is always indirect so the lighting stays constant until the evening. I guess we're lucky in that respect because I use the same calibration settings and just adjust as needed with the eco feature. I never use the Vivid or Standard preset so I switched back and forth between the two and my "normal" calibation setting. There did seem to be a very short lag before the picture would adjust to its new settings but that only took about 2 seconds. However, my settings may not be different enough to exhibit what you're describing.

Thanks. Sport mode definitely has dynamic contrast on. I have noticed the brief 2-3 second adjustment cycles as Otto mentioned above. But the 2-3 minute duration really surprised me. I will try this again with Dynamic Contrast off in Sport mode and see if the change is immediate and report back. Probably won't get to it tonight...

Dynamic contrast was a good call. I haven't used that for quite some time and hadn't even thought about it.

I've also noticed that it can take a few seconds to adjust from one preset to another. It seems to me like it is the backlight ramping up or down.

Just checking in to see if anyone is here

I'm here!

Present and accounted for...

I'm glad to see everyone is well and fine. I think I must be going thru "separation anxiety" now that most of us are done calibrating (for now) and have nothing to report.

I may check my cals again once I hit 1000 hours to see if there has been any shift. Still haven't got off my butt to get the Blu-ray Seabiscuit so that little project is still on.

Speaking of media rooms (Phase), our family room furniture finally arrived a week or so ago (first time with top grain leather) and it's a good thing that leather cleans up so well, cause using the electric recliner on the couch and watching the LG has, well, been an exciting experience

I want top grain leather.

Hubby says he doesn't like it, that it will make him sweat and stick.

We're building new kitchen cabinets, will tile after than and then the new furniture... I smell real leather in my future.

I haven't touch the settings on my tv and it seems like the picture is still getting better, or else I did a really bang up job on the first try. My blacks look amazing.

Staying totally off topic, I was against leather at first as well but it seems to adjust nicely to your body temp, and with one of the electric recliner ends dead center to the LG, oh my!

Glad to see you check in. I guess the gangs all still here

hey djams.

was finally able to watch a bluray with your settings and i like=) sounds like the true test is to watch sea biscuit for some reason? i watched the movie "tangled" (which was pretty good i must say) and wallstreet and the pq looked good. have you made any other adjustments since?

Seabiscuit Blu-ray at Amazon only $9.99:

http://www.amazon.com/Seabiscuit-Blu...319659&sr=1-34

Thanks Henry. I just may do that if I can't find it locally. I'm taking Friday off so I'll put that on my to do list.

i'm sure this has been answered...but why seabiscuit?=)

Phase did a very nice, and helpful, scene by scene (well almost) description of what you should see as far as color, shading, detail, etc if your set is calibrated correctly. Apparently it is one of the better made movies of recent memory that was filmed about as good as it gets without any digital tom-foolery.

I think that proper care and maintenance of furniture used while viewing the xxLD5xx series TV is not that far off-topic

There sheshe is! This place isn't the same without you.

Tell hubby that he's thinking of 'pleather', not leather. Leather is awesome

Thanks for the feedback - you're the only person that's commented on the settings so far. It's good to hear they are working for you.

I have not made any changes to those settings. I am currently working on daytime settings that will be much brighter - I'm having a harder time getting everything nailed down with the brighter basic settings. I will post them when I'm done if anyone is interested.

It doesn't have to be Seabiscuit - there are plenty of "reference quality bluray discs" - if you google the quoted text, you will find lists of them.

But as others have pointed out, in the case of Seabiscuit, Phase has put his expertise and years of experience into documenting specific scenes that present challenging situations which will expose defficiencies in your settings. That's what makes Seabiscuit especially useful for me. (as a bonus, it's a good movie!)

yeah, i like your settings and carl's are not bad either. as people say, the pq seems to be getting better and better each time i turn the set on.

curious to see what you get for a brighter picture as i prefer brighter at day and night=)

good to know. i'll have to put this in our que=)