Optoma H31 Owners: OTB calibration?

brightness/contrast/tint/saturation settings are different for every source - no point in posting those. It is also not a measure of how far off the display is - it is a measure of how far off your sources are. Every THX DVD has these adjustment patterns - learn to use it because nobody elses settings will work for you.


The setting that certainly can be shared are what are the number settings for white peaking, gamma, color temperature. Which are closer to standards, which do what. Tom has ColorFacts he should be able to provide that info.


The far off the box comments on the H30 came from those reviews that have calibration equipment for greyscale. This is not a subjective measure and not something you can do with your eyes. Again guitarman can provide this info thru his ColorFacts sessions. This is also something where somebody elses RGB settings will NOT help - every lamp has a different spectral nature, and every source is again different. And on the H30 it was found every firmware and nearly every SN had a different factory calibration.


So while this survey is fun - it really tells you that people either don't no how to adjust, or have perfect sources, or do not have calibration equipment, or they did and the box was perfect. Not very scientific - but fun!


I am sure guitarman will come back to his H31 after his H79 tweaking is done.

This survey is subjective of course. Some have calibration equip, some just Avia or DVE and others just their eyes!


But, myself being an H30 owner and calibrating 3 of them (my boss's H30 and 2 of my own), I can attest and many of the H30 owners can agree, many of the H30 OTB calibrations were all over the place. Some of them were way off mark....barely watchable. 2 of my H30's were like this, while my boss's (early firmware) was pretty darn good OTB, needing only some slight nudging here and there.


So, this subjective survey---while not being scientific, can at least give many of us an idea of how the H31 has been doing OTB, that's all.


For me, a quickie comparison for OTB calibrations has been my 27" CRT tv.

My TV is right below my screen, so I can have the TV on and the Projector on at the same time, easy to see the differences in colors and contrast, etc., and what to start adjusting.


But I agree with Krasmuzik, you can't really use anyone else’s calibration settings. None of the 3 H30's I calibrated could use each other’s #'s. Doing so would produce one horrid image. All 3 had drastically different settings.


Fleaman

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I guess my TV is just better than others (Preset wise). My TV's 'Theater' (or 'Film'?) preset settings are pretty darn good...and within that setting I can choose 'cool', 'medium' and 'warm' color temps. All I have to do after that is turn the brightness down just a notch or 2 and it's just about perfect.


But I agree, the 'Normal' preset is horrid! Super bright, washed out...probably for sports watching, I dunno.


And, I also know TV's are just brighter than a projector naturally, so I take that into account.


Fleaman

jedi35,


That's strange. You would think the voting and posting would be 2 different things. Maybe I can ask a moderator if this is a fact or not.


If you did vote (by mistake?) I'll see if the moderator can tell what your vote was.


Hmmmm.


Fleaman

jedi35,


Moderator said you can post as many times as you want in this forum, but only vote once. Hence, his conclusion was that you must have voted already, somehow. I asked if he (moderator) can advise what your vote was (advise me or you or the forum), but no response yet.


I might be upgrading from my H30 to an H31, haven't really decided yet. Have a friend interested in my H30, but I would take a pretty good hit (dollars wise) when all is settled.


If I do get a H31, then of course I will vote too (in my own poll!), and maybe we will see if I run into the same problem as you.


Until then, we've got 18 votes now, keep 'em coming!


Fleaman