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This is the question for the video bigwigs - Mike Parker, Tim Martin, Ken Hotte, Curt Palmer, Stacey Spears, Guy Kuo, David Abrams, Michael Hamilton, Mark Haflich, Alan Gouger ETC ETC
Assume you have a dark, light controlled room. A Stewart Studiotech 16:9 80" wide 1.3 gain screen. And a front CRT projector say with contrast range from 0 to 100, with factory preset at 50.
Have you ever run across an installation, ISFed with grey scale set in vicinity of 6500, where the contrast is set say at 10, or even at 20 - or say even less, at 0? And this is assuming that any video processor/scaler with its own contrast control is set at the halfway mark where it doesn't change the contrast at all.
OR AM I CRAZY???
Two years ago, John Gannon ISFed and setup my then brand new Dwin HD-700 7" CRT setting contrast to 10 on a 100 scale, 50 being the factory preset. Back then I was using Bybeeized (with internal Bybee devices at AC input and outputs) PS Audio Power Plants to power projector and scaler and other front end components. And this was using USPL color filtered red and green lens, too, which decrease light output by at least 20 percent!
Since then, I've changed all my power cords to Granite Audio 10 guage cords with toroids each end for high frequency noise filtering. And I've changed from Canare and Better Cables Ultra video cabling to Wireworld (silver) video cabling. And almost 4000 hours now on projector. Wouldn't you expect that the additional hours would now require a boost in the prior contrast setting? But Michael Hamilton just the other weekend completed re-ISFing my system and setting contrast across the board to
--- "0".
SO AM I CRAZY or are these tweaks doing something????
***I challenge you guys to "FORGET ABOUT IT", that is, the usual jokes.
How about having a substantive discussion. And other folks with the Dwin HD-700, if you've ISFed your setup, what are you running your contrast at???
Assume you have a dark, light controlled room. A Stewart Studiotech 16:9 80" wide 1.3 gain screen. And a front CRT projector say with contrast range from 0 to 100, with factory preset at 50.
Have you ever run across an installation, ISFed with grey scale set in vicinity of 6500, where the contrast is set say at 10, or even at 20 - or say even less, at 0? And this is assuming that any video processor/scaler with its own contrast control is set at the halfway mark where it doesn't change the contrast at all.
OR AM I CRAZY???
Two years ago, John Gannon ISFed and setup my then brand new Dwin HD-700 7" CRT setting contrast to 10 on a 100 scale, 50 being the factory preset. Back then I was using Bybeeized (with internal Bybee devices at AC input and outputs) PS Audio Power Plants to power projector and scaler and other front end components. And this was using USPL color filtered red and green lens, too, which decrease light output by at least 20 percent!
Since then, I've changed all my power cords to Granite Audio 10 guage cords with toroids each end for high frequency noise filtering. And I've changed from Canare and Better Cables Ultra video cabling to Wireworld (silver) video cabling. And almost 4000 hours now on projector. Wouldn't you expect that the additional hours would now require a boost in the prior contrast setting? But Michael Hamilton just the other weekend completed re-ISFing my system and setting contrast across the board to
--- "0".
SO AM I CRAZY or are these tweaks doing something????
***I challenge you guys to "FORGET ABOUT IT", that is, the usual jokes.
How about having a substantive discussion. And other folks with the Dwin HD-700, if you've ISFed your setup, what are you running your contrast at???