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Recently I had William Phelps over, and he has developed a special calibration program that allows finer tuning for the D-ILA gamma curve.
I previously had my G15 calibrated by Richard Martin and the picture looked great, which can be confirmed by the many visitors who have come by to see my HT setup.
So I figured that William's software would simply show how well a job Richard did with his calibration, and indeed it discorvered that Richard had gotten the shading dead-on.
But William's Gamma program has the added ability to plot a full 1024 points for red, green, and blue for much finer gamma mapping.
Of course this would have been just another techie academic exercise, except for the fact that it provided a visible color quality improvement.
First off, I had previously set the brightness to -7 to get the black level right, but now 0 is best.
More importantly, the color is more saturated and richer, which can be seen both in brighter colors, and with fuller fleshtones.
But it's not like I just cranked the color up, because it looks more realistic, and not overblown.
It brings to mind the captured pictures of the 3 chip DLP vs. LCD thread that was here a while back, with my colors now looking similarly better. Both with the HTPC and HD material.
Anyway, I'm always surprised at improvements like this calibration and changing to the Radeon card in my HTPC because the picture already looked fantastic, and I wouldn't have guessed that there could be a visible improvement made. Well, it's not a day-and-night difference, but it is visibly better than before.
And yet, the quest for improvement still continues.
Next step, the new 2048 X 1536, 7K lumen JVC FPTV, and HD-DVD drive. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif
-Dean.
I previously had my G15 calibrated by Richard Martin and the picture looked great, which can be confirmed by the many visitors who have come by to see my HT setup.
So I figured that William's software would simply show how well a job Richard did with his calibration, and indeed it discorvered that Richard had gotten the shading dead-on.
But William's Gamma program has the added ability to plot a full 1024 points for red, green, and blue for much finer gamma mapping.
Of course this would have been just another techie academic exercise, except for the fact that it provided a visible color quality improvement.
First off, I had previously set the brightness to -7 to get the black level right, but now 0 is best.
More importantly, the color is more saturated and richer, which can be seen both in brighter colors, and with fuller fleshtones.
But it's not like I just cranked the color up, because it looks more realistic, and not overblown.
It brings to mind the captured pictures of the 3 chip DLP vs. LCD thread that was here a while back, with my colors now looking similarly better. Both with the HTPC and HD material.
Anyway, I'm always surprised at improvements like this calibration and changing to the Radeon card in my HTPC because the picture already looked fantastic, and I wouldn't have guessed that there could be a visible improvement made. Well, it's not a day-and-night difference, but it is visibly better than before.
And yet, the quest for improvement still continues.
Next step, the new 2048 X 1536, 7K lumen JVC FPTV, and HD-DVD drive. http://www.avsforum.com/ubb/wink.gif
-Dean.