Epson Pro Cinema 9700UB Thread - Page 2

Originally Posted by rr330i

What projector did you have?
Nice audio set up btw.
I had a Yamaha dpx830, which was dlp 720p from 2006.
Kevin Miller calibrated it back then.
I spoke to him recently, and he said this 9700 would blow it away.
Not surprising since he did have input in its design.
But I would have him back to dial this one in.

Originally Posted by pottscb

I just went into my local pj store and walked into the room where they usually have the JVC RS25 hanging, small amount of ambient lighting, on FoxNews Glen Beck election results...I won't say my mouth was hanging open but it took me five minutes to look up and notice it was the black Epson Pro 9700 hanging there. Before I get flamed, it was high ambient light so blacks would've been washed out a little anyway. Anyway, after dimming the lights the image had tons of pop on a 120" SI 1.3 ga. screen...close inspection of the pixel alignment showed almost no shift. Great color, plenty of brightness and near razor sharpness at 10 ft away from 120" screen. Also, I stood right behind it (nose to the filter) and could hear no fan noice louder than a whisper, the front was not different. No iris sounds audible.

Now, does the Pro model have any better QC of convergence/iris function? Epson doesn't state so, but, I personally haven't noticed nearly the complaints of problems in the Pro series as is so common in the Home version. It would be nice to know.

Originally Posted by dysfunction26

Are you using the super resolution setting? I have it set to 1, and the contrast enhancement set to 1.

Originally Posted by fraisa

Here is what i got for my THX Settings...
will still continue to mess with it and will repost changes...

Image Menu:
Color Mode: THX
Brightness: -10
Contrast: 7
Color Saturation: -1
Tint: -2
Sharpness: Standard
Abs. Color Temp: 6500K
Skin Tone: 3

Advanced:
Gamma: 2.2
RGB: Factory Default
RGBCMY: Factory Default
Contrast Enhancement: Off
Color Gamut: HDTV
Power Consumption: Normal
Auto Iris: Normal


Signal Menu:
Aspect: Normal
Frame Interpolation: Off

Advanced:
Noise Reduction: Off
Epson Super White: Off
Output Scaling: 100%
HDMI Video Range: Expanded
4-4 Pull-down: On for Blu-ray and Off for cable/satellite

Originally Posted by Chris Dallas

That looks way over saturated dude, you like watching movies like that?

Originally Posted by guitarman

If you don't want to spring for a pro with professional equipment to tune your projector (which you should) it's just a one time shot.

Ok then you should start with a basic Avia / DVE tuning, then put up a graysteps pattern, light grays/white to dark graybars. Find it in Avia or DVE. Study the color bias in the grays, first use the colortemp control to see which makes gray look steely gray with no color bias.

Next use the advance RGB gains and bias. RGB gains take color out of the white/bright grays, RGB bias takes the color out of the darker grays.

If you see red bias in the lights back off the red gain and increase the Blue and green gain equally till you see no color bias in the gray tone.

Once gray looks gray with no color bias your picture should look more natural toned.

Cheap way to try and fix it and nothing beats a pro with equipment coming out and making your 6500k gray balance go where it should be.
Good luck on your tweeking.