Screenshot War!!!!!!!! - Page 78

hey, I saw your build. It's quite cool. I'm glad you've already started yours.

And yeah, am very glad to have this pj. When I got it from you, it was 3300 hours. I just looked at it few minutes ago, it's at 4708 hours. Am averaging like 4 hours a day for 365 days.

So where is your 1251 now?

Thanks Cliff!

It's still in my basement, back where I had the 1272 set up when you picked it up, collecting dust. Maybe someday I'll break it out and convince the wife that it won't "ugly" the basement up.

Love these two. Fleshtones.....CRT's specialty!

Excellent screenshots! It must be a pleasure to watch movies on a PJ dialed in that well. BTW, your geometry seems to be spot on as well.

Nice ones Big Dog! Awesome detail in those shots! Happy Thanksgiving to you!

Hi Cliff Just watched mine last night too, very good movie. Charlise is as Hot as ever in this one !!!

Athanasios

very nice, some amazing stuff here

this one is for Cliffy, the last shots I took of my 1352LC:














-Gary

Just finished adding another shim to my CRT array, a la (thanks!) Owen, for a total of 2.25" - 3 shims of 3/4" each, 4 of them - to my 73" Mit. I added a spot of white glue between the shims and under them, for stability. This makes half again the amount of shimmage I had before today, with just 2 shim thicknesses each x4, for 1.5" of shimmage for the last few months -

Took this opportunity to reclean the lens tops, it had been a year or so since last time, made a noticeable difference. Mit's HDreadys don't need the deeper optics cleaning, they don't allow an air gap between the lenses and the coolant covers, like the Elites do.

I think my shots are being compromised by being in jpeg, which I have heard reduces the res automatically. I checked my cam and can't find any way to redo any of that inside the cam, so it must by the automatic Windows uploading from my cam. Any input welcome on that. Kodak Z712 IS.

After redoing the focus, geometry and convergence - grayscale and colorations stayed the same as before, basically all by eye on the colorations - here's the results -



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Slightly overexposed, but appropriate to the brilliance of the runway
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Hard to get the crowd shadow details and still have the diamond sparkle without it white crushing out
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Slight movement blur on this one, mostly on her outfit. But check out those abs!
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Blur on this one only on her right shoe and at the top of her rack (no not that one, the one she's WEARING...!)
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Me like Bob!!!

Whats your overscan at with the shims now, are you at 2% or so?

Wow Bob!

You've got that big Mits purrin' like a kitten. I've noticed that you often provide encouraging comments on the screenshots of others. Nice to see some of your stuff.

ps. - shimmage...should copyright that.

- Will

Couldn't quite do 2% without having one of the edges of my CRTs start to show. And if just one edge shows, the other 2 colors become predominant because of that color not being there in that area.

I coulda re-aimed my offending gun, but that woulda required scheimpflug realignment too. So I just let it be.

I am now running at just under 3% all around, per the BluRay HD DVE overscan pattern.


Mr Bob

Thanks! Yes, I do like to tinker...



Can't wait to get my glass front surface mirror in there in place of the mylar, but it was more important to do the final shimming if there were going to be a few more months before I woulda had enough time again, which can always be the case around here...

If I had waited more months on this job, the footprint mighta started showing, and that woulda limited me on how much of each CRT face would then be usable -





Mr Bob

Yup, that's Heidi in all her glory. (Well maybe not ALL, I yearn to be standing somewhere behind her, to see where that view would lead...)

Glad you like it! When you gonna have me do your secondary set of 9"ers?

Cliff, what color issue would that be?

-Gary

My set's nearly 3 years old now, tho in my place it hasn't been the house kid's entertainer, no...

But as I recall you didn't have any screenburn when I saw it in person, and I trust you have been running her at 35-40% up all those 8 hour days, since midpoint on the contrast bargraph is already 80-90% up.

But she can always be regunned at any time needed, and re-set up, and be absolutely brand new again. Literally. The guns will always be available from VDC. That set could last you forever.

Even at twice my set's age, any set that age is still only at cruising age. If yours has been on twice that of normal householding, that makes it only 7 years old now, still only cruising age. If your set is still in the condition it was in when I saw it performing live in your living room a year or 2 ago, I could make your set look like those pix I sent up, no sweat.


Be sure to check for coolant leakage, tho. All Mit HDreadys should have a drip shed installed into them if they don't from the factory, because we have been seeing them leaking coolant for years. If it gets on the multi-layer board beneath the blue gun, it's usually sayanora. The brown single layer boards under the other 2 guns can always be repaired, but usually not the multi-layer green one under the blue gun. The layers get infected and it's usually history.

What color issue does she have?

If anyone wants to see what 7-9 year old CRT tech can REALLY look like, scroll down to post 3065 at this thread -

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...95922&page=103


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Are you feeding the mits component?

The factory doesn't correct red push. In fact they resent that we were able to penetrate their serial I2C bus in the first place, and were able to defeat their evil Joe Sixpack-only intentions with our steadfast videophile consciousness.

Their intent is and has always been to not have their sets come out of the factory with anything BUT red push. The first 2 years they had registers in the sm to use to directly fully realign it outa there, in the third year they phased those out, and we needed to go to the mattresses to find another way. Some intrepid geeks much more computer savvy than I will ever be got in there and found a way to realign those sets from then on with the special I2C interface cable, which joined your laptop to your display directly.

If it has PerfectColor, you probably can no longer use the I2C interface on it. That was eventually phased out with PerfectColor, but I do have the I2C interface cable JIC.

However with the right test patterns, I can work with the PC in User menu to get silky smooth color linearity. That's what I have done on my set, with the colors you mentioned, I only had PerfectColor to use and if done correctly it can be done very very well.

As you can see, red push is definitely not making the greens and blues suffer when the fleshtones are prioritized, on my set. Which is essentially why we hate red push, and why it definitely had to go, on my set.

Yours is a xxx15 series, mine is the xxx17 series, only one model year removed from yours, yours being only 1 year older than mine. Yours has virtually the same chassis as mine. I can work exactly the same magic on it.


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I bought a Diamond series in 2000 which had the red push.
Those day we opted for attenuator added to the red channel.

Edit: you posted just before me. Mine did have component only.

Craig Rounds Did my calibration on my 65817 diamond series and we use the lumagen for all calibration on it. If I take the Lumie out of the chain it is basically a stock set from the factory. With the lumie he got a perfect flat greyscale and the red push was easy to fix. Its been two years and I need to have it touched up. Even the convergence is gone when i take it out. The picture was night and day after I got the Lumagen and Craig worked his Mitsu Magic. I still love this set, i don't care how big it is and the Gloss black finish is sweet!!!

Athanasios