The official Epson 8700UB thread - Page 37

Originally Posted by wonderbun99

I'd like to share my calibration experience with this projector. I had free access to a Spyder2Pro colorimeter, so went with that, despite reports of it being inaccurate. I did find trouble at 10 IRE and no readings at 0 IRE, but otherwise seems ok. My brother used it to calibrate his Mac, and his photos look awesome.
I used the Color HCFR program on win7-64bit and free download calibration DVD in my PS3, running over about 40' of component cable. My screen is home-made with a light gray paint, with a tiny hint of red.

I wanted to calibrate Eco mode, to avoid the higher fan noise and Auto-Iris noise. I was surprised to find I had to make huge adjustments to match the reference colors, but I'm very happy with the end result. I'm actually surprised now close i could get this to the HD reference. One area I couldn't reach was the green brightness--it ran out of gas, but that's acceptable to me.

Just for reference, here's the values I ended up with. They won't be valid for your projector, but I think it's instructive to see how far I had to adjust things. See the PNG attachments for my plots.

Theatre mode black 1
Brightness -1
Saturation -6
Contrast -6
Tint 0
6500k
Skin Mode 3
gamma 2.4

Advanced->RGB
Offset (R,G,B) 2,1,5
Gain (R,G,B) 3,2,1

Advanced->RGBCYM
(Hue, Saturation, Brightness)
R: 8,-51,52
G: -7,-64,64
B: -15,1,7
C: 0,-31,64
Y: 0,-35,35
M: 0,-18,13

Originally Posted by wonderbun99

I think the closest mode is "Theatre Black 2". In the 8700 manual, they're described like this:

■ Dynamic for projecting the brightest picture available.
■ Living Room for watching television programs during
the day.
■ THX (Home Cinema 8700 UB) or Natural (Home
Cinema 8350) for projecting natural, accurate colors in
a dimly lit room.
■ Theatre (Home Cinema 8700 UB) or Cinema
(Home Cinema 8350) for viewing movies in a dimly lit
room.
■ Theatre Black 1 (Home Cinema 8700 UB) for images that are close to those in professional-use broadcast monitors. Use in a fully darkened room.
■ Theatre Black 2 (Home Cinema 8700 UB) to emphasize rich colors, like those seen in movies at the theater. Use in a fully darkened room.
■ x.v.Color for the most natural color reproduction when viewing movies through HDMI.

In the 9700, the modes are
■ Vivid (Pro Cinema 9700 UB) or Dynamic (Pro Cinema 9350) for projecting the brightest picture
available.
■ Cinema Day (Pro Cinema 9700 UB) or Living
Room(Pro Cinema 9350) for watching television
programs during the day.
■ THX (Pro Cinema 9700 UB) or Natural (Pro Cinema
9350) for projecting natural, accurate colors in a dimly
lit room.
■ Cinema Night (Pro Cinema 9700 UB) or Cinema (Pro Cinema 9350) for viewing
movies in a dimly lit room.
■ HD (Pro Cinema 9700 UB) for images that are close to those in professional-use
broadcast monitors. Use in a fully darkened room.
■ Silver Screen (Pro Cinema 9700 UB) to emphasize rich colors, like those seen in movies at the theater. Use in a fully darkened room.
■ x.v.Color for the most natural color reproduction when viewing movies through HDMI.

I'll recalibrate with Normal Power, Iris off, theatre black 2, to see if there's any significant difference. But if you really care, I'd pick up a colorimeter and do it on your setup. Our screen diffs will surely skew things. The eye-one LT is pretty cheap on ebay (new). If I didn't already have free access to this one, I'd grab it. You'll probably want to check the calibration every so often, so it's worth it, plus you can calibrate all your computer screens too.

Originally Posted by wonderbun99

Yes, that's the one. I changed my mind--I'm going to try and stick to ECO mode for movies, to keep the noise down, so I'll end up with THX-ECO and Theatre Black 2-ECO. My screen is only 86" diagonal and nearly minimum throw, so I should have plenty of brightness in ECO mode. Are my settings of theatre-black-2-eco of any use to you?

Originally Posted by wonderbun99

fraisa,
I started calibrating Theatre Black 2, and found that it's really just a more-saturated version of TB1. In fact, my green sat can not be brought down far enough to the reference green at all. I'll be sticking with THX-Normal when I want maximum accuracy and don't care about the fan noise, or THX-ECO otherwise. I suspect those modes are just biases to the color settings which I'm calibrating out anyway...

Originally Posted by 2ntold

I submitted my lamp rebate 1/12/11 and received a conformation from the Epson Rebate Administrator on 1/31/11 that they had received it and was in process. Today I decided to check online my current status with my rebate and can't get a match with my name, address and serial #. I will call them on Monday. I included all necessary documentation with my rebate and received the one e-mail confirmation from Epson. Should I be concerned ? I do so hate rebates!

Originally Posted by stereomandan

That will make no noticeable difference.

Dan

Originally Posted by WhereToStart

I received mine about a week ago, but have yet to finish the room it's going in or the screen. I am thinking of going 125" but only have a throw range of between 13' and 13'5". The calculator on Projector Central shows that is well within the range of the zoom, but will using that level of zoom be detrimental? The room will be totally light controlled. Is there any downside of having the projector close to the screen?

Originally Posted by Cipher One

I purchased my 8700UB last month and am absolutely loving the projector experience. However, I was wondering how long it was taking you all to get your rebates from Epson. I'm going on 5 weeks now after submitting for my $100 rebate and free bulb. How long did yours take?

Thanks.