Customer Reports About Their Professional Calibrations - Page 3

Chuck Williams added a neutral density filter when he calibrated my set. I thought it looked pretty good before but I must admit quite an improvement, even my wife noticed it. Blacker blacks much truer colors and more 3 D like. Changed the picture setting from natural to briliant with the added filter. Very happy!

I just joined this forum and see that I am not the only one with the shadow problem. I bought my Samsung DLP HL-R5668W in Dec 2005. It worked real great until I came back from a 2 week vacation last week when I noticed a 2 inch (approx.) shadow on the left side of the screen. Unfortunate I am out of warranty. Can anyone tell me what it would cost to get it fixed (Light engine tunnel (integrator) and all? Would appreciate a response.

There do not seem to be any calibration reports for Toshiba dlp rptv's, either last year's HM196 or this year's HM197 models.

Any reasons or did I miss it?

Shelly

Wrong Forum:

Here's one from earlier this year - Mr Bob does Socal.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=871388


Mr Bob

Hey, ht. Love your thread!


I am very grateful for your thread, allowing people to look us up and see reports from others on the work we do.

I am occasionally in PA, it's just a coupla miles down from SC and RC, where I go every week for chiropractic and massage therapy. I live in East Bay, in San Lorenzo, just a quick hop across the SM Br and I'm there, not far from you.

Let me know if there's something I can do to give back to you, now that you have given so much to us calibrators so far. How about a complimentary house call and optics cleaning, if you have a CRT set? It's on the house.

Next time I'm gonna be around PA, I would be glad to stop by and check out your sys and see if there's something I can do for you, either for nothing if it's something like optics cleaning, or for greatly reduced rates if it's a calibration. Or a free checkout of your sys. Yesterday I did a checkout on a guy's new 1080p Samsung, and to the amazement of both of us, it needed no calibration! Was not strictly linear in its grayscale tracking, but averaged out, at his chosen light level it needed no calibration work on grayscale!

And with the DVE filters - the best filters out there, that I know of - it didn't have red push either, and was in fact VERY linear in its color decoding. Didn't need any work there either.


Keep up the good work -




Mr Bob

I don't have the exact model number, but it looked like a 57", and was 1080p, so you know it's the latest and greatest new offering in their lineup. All plasmas before it will have been 720p.




Yes, and there were no problems at all with it. Everything straight and very linear in there. As a fixed pixel plasma, this was not unexpected. I have never seen a plasma with bowed edges, as it's all fixed. I don't believe that can be changed, in a plasma.


Mr Bob

Sony KDS70XBR2

This will be fairly short for now - I'll probably add more after living with my "new" set longer.

Jeff came to Arizona on Monday on one of his only occasional Southwestern trips and I sprung for the full setup with him.

I'm still checking out the picture and noticing all the improvements, but the sound improvement (especially with the subwoofer integration) is nothing but astounding.

And he is such the ultimate professional. It was such a pleasure being with him for the 5 hours!

Too bad I can't point all this out to my wife - I hid the whole visit from her. Oh, well, she probably would say that she doesn't notice anything different anyway.

No 1080p CRT RPTVs were ever produced. 1080i only. Ceiling pjs, yes. RPTVs, no.


Mr Bob

Just thought I'd liven up this thread a bit with some eye candy...

And to show that CRT is NOT dead -




CSI from awhile ago on my Dish HD DVR -

They eyes have it. Doesn't LOOK like a db, does it?...

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Dean Cain, guest appearance

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Bob, Mits has a 73 inch CRT ? They stop making the 40 inch Analog & said they would do Big Screen Projection till Plasma lasts as long as Our old sets do... I know they hated it when Sony had the HD 40 inch CRT...Now You say the make CRT 's again ?

Yes, there has been a 73" CRT in their lineup since their initial early adopter HD units began, their WS 73903 was one of the very first of their HDreadys. Till they stopped making ANY CRT based units about 3 years ago. They stopped making DV CRTs many years before that.

Triple gun, of course, not DV. 42" was the world's largest DV CRT, made by Sony on a limited basis, never thoroughly mass produced and marketed.

It only went up to S video in res, was not HDready, was before that time. Looked fantastic, tho, for SD video, both that and the Mit 40" did. Mit never made HDready DV CRT, tho Sony came out with their sizzling 34" DV HDready, with limited convergence capabilities and the first to ever make a 16x9 DV CRT, ready and eager for true HD content. Those really respond to supertweaking on the image structure, tho were not as equipped as the RPTV class of HDreadys.

Prospective HDready new buyers can prolly find excellent deals on the Sony 34" DV on the used market. It would be hard to find a better DV HDready.


Mr Bob

ht,
do you keep a thread going for plasma and lcd calibrations?
i'd like to check it out if you do or someone else does

thanks

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0#post11858390

How or where do I find an ISF Calibrator for my Mits WD73734 in Pasadena, CA? Any help would be appreciated. Also, any ideas on the range of cost for such a calibration? Thanks.

htwaits,

Thank you for the recommendation! I hope things are going well up north.

Best,

Dave

Sorry, I just have to crow a little...

I just learned that I have been mentioned on the Curt Palme site, a site dedicated to the best CRT reproduction possible, primarily dealing with the immensely capable and expensive triple gun CRT front projectors, the kind they used to buy $20,000 Faroudja scalers for. It is dedicated to the best big screen picture possible, and ceiling pj people are incredibly dedicated to that site. It's a reference site, it's where the REALLY committed videophiles go to get their systems looking their best.

This was in regards to equipment they sponsor there that successfully transcodes HDMI video to component, in all its splendor, with its resulting images NOT limited or neutralized by HDCP. And arriving at the display fully ceiling projector grade.

So if you have a component-only CRT RPTV and have been considering buying new just to get HDMI, your worries are over. Keep your set, spend a few hundred equipping it with ceiling pj grade transcoding equipment, and continue to enjoy the incredible images your CRT set is capable of, head and shoulders better than a lot of the new tech out there, and standing shoulder to shoulder with the best of it.

I am mentioned there in a testimonial by James A, whose Mit 55905 I just calibrated last week, around a year 2001 HDready model. He swears by it, says his set now "outperforms some of the newest stuff out there"...

Check the Curt Palme site -

www.curtpalme.com

and this in particular, it's in the testimonials down below -

http://www.curtpalme.com/Box1020.shtm


Mr Bob