The Denon 5900 and the Pioneer 59avi both have display adjustment controls for contrast, brightness, sharpness, color and tint which affect the video they put out both on component and HDMI/DVI outputs.
Presuming you have the ability in your display itself to store multiple display adjustment settings (and thus there's no reason to calibrate the display input for one source device attached to one input and use the controls built into another source device that might be sharing that input to adjust calibration for the second device when switched into that input), is there any point to using the controls on the DVD player instead of just using the display's own controls to get all the video into calibration?
For example, is there some reason to believe the adjustment in the DVD player might be better because it's closer to the source processing, or alternatively that the adjustment in the display might be better because it's closer to the display technology?
Is there some reason to want to calibrate the display input to some set "standard" on a given input and then do any device specific adjustments via the controls on the individual sources that might be switched into that input?
It would seem the natural approach would be to set the source device (DVD player in this case) controls to center-of-range and do *ALL* the calibration using the display's settings -- with the individual source device controls used for fine tuning only as needed to correct things the display's controls can't correct. Does that make sense?
[If it matters, the display in question is a Fujitsu P50 plasma.]
--Bob
Presuming you have the ability in your display itself to store multiple display adjustment settings (and thus there's no reason to calibrate the display input for one source device attached to one input and use the controls built into another source device that might be sharing that input to adjust calibration for the second device when switched into that input), is there any point to using the controls on the DVD player instead of just using the display's own controls to get all the video into calibration?
For example, is there some reason to believe the adjustment in the DVD player might be better because it's closer to the source processing, or alternatively that the adjustment in the display might be better because it's closer to the display technology?
Is there some reason to want to calibrate the display input to some set "standard" on a given input and then do any device specific adjustments via the controls on the individual sources that might be switched into that input?
It would seem the natural approach would be to set the source device (DVD player in this case) controls to center-of-range and do *ALL* the calibration using the display's settings -- with the individual source device controls used for fine tuning only as needed to correct things the display's controls can't correct. Does that make sense?
[If it matters, the display in question is a Fujitsu P50 plasma.]
--Bob
