I've got something acceptable. I suspect that my grey level isn't quite right on 6500K, and there may be colour issues as well, but it's pretty good for first try winging it by eye without test equipment.
Let me tell you what I did.
Equipment:
a) Screen: Draper Luma2 matte white 1.0 gain 10'x8' pull down
b) DVD: Denon DVD-3910, with 2m (6') DVI-D 400 cable to projector
c) Projector: NEC HT1000 with 100 hours of lamp used.
d) DVDs: Digital Video Essentials, Wind, We Were Soldiers, Lost In Space, Henry V.
DVD-3910 Initial settings:
a) Select=DVI, Format=720p (controls on front of projector and on remote
top left)
b) Setup menu: HDMI/DVI Black Level=Enhanced (I tried 'Normal' but the black levels initially didn't look right. The image could probably be adjusted for Normal as well), TV-Aspect=Wide(16:9), TV-Type=MULTI, Video-Out=Progressive, ProgressiveMode=Auto1 (I tried 'Auto2' and it looked better for some things in Gladiator, but not as good in Wind), SqueezeMode=Off.
HT1000 Initial Settings:
a) DVI (on remote)
b) Basic Menu - Setup - Page 1 - LampMode=Normal
c) Picture Management = User1
d) Gamma Correction I used 'Natural' because of some experiments with the white t-shirt in chapter 2 of We Were Soldiers this showed the most wrinkles in the shirt.
e) Within PictureManagement SETTING button I deselected 'Color Temperature', which enables the White Balance button.
In goes the Digital Video Essentials disk. Menu - ProgramGuide - Reference Materials - 12 Display Setup Patterns - Play. This is showing the three black level bars on either side (blacker than black, +5%, +2%) and the contrast bars in the middle. With the HT1000 menu's White Balance button I set Brightness until I could just barely see the blacker than black. So I ended up with: Brightness R= -16, Brightness G = -16, Brightness B = -16.
I tried several contrast settings starting with 128 and then 215, but after going back and forth with various movie DVDs I settled on: Contrast R = 134, Contrast G = 134, Contrast B = 134.
Continuing with Digital Video Essentials, pushing PLAY four times, ends up on the new colour bar screen with the two big rows of six colours over a greyish background. The top bar is yellow, cyan, green, magenta, red, blue. On the HT1000's Color Correction button I used the DVE colour filters to adjust the colours: Red=0, Green=0, Blue=0, Yellow=0, Magenta= -7, Cyan= -1. I set the Color Gain to +20 for no particularly good reason.
Testing:
1) Henry V, chapter 2 is a dark film. I can see the paneling on the walls behind the priests. Other settings made that panneling clearer, but this was acceptable. In chapter 9 the moderator is wearing a black scarf over a black sweater under a charcol coat. If black levels are correct you should see the black sweater clearly different than the coat. I was able to also see the line that separates the scarf from the sweater in some spots.
2) Wind, chapter 19. This test is mostly about colour saturation. The red boat should be very red, and the blue pants should be very blue, and the yellow shirts should be very yellow. But you should also be able to see lots of clouds (contrast). It should not be grainy. Peoples faces should be good.
3) We Were Soldiers, chapter 2 baseball game, when the pilot is standing beside Too Tall talking to the colonel, I can clearly see the wrinkles in his shirt, and skin tones look ok. In chapter 9, the grass looks real, as do the faces and the weapons. Most importantly the fire in the explosions looks right. This is a very bright film, so if you have too much contrast it definately shows up here as an over white film.
4) Lost In Space, the opening chapter is 99% CGI with saturated vibrant colours. The colour space should be exciting. The fire should look like fire. If brightness is too high you'll see the optical cut outs around the ships. If contrast is too high you'll see sparkles.
5) Waterworld: first chapter with the catamaran chase. This is another bright film that's hard to get right. If the tan and skin and hair on the people doesn't look right, then it isn't right.
Let me know what settings you use please. I'll be watching !
