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It depends on how your TV remembers/stores settings. It almost certainly maintains different settings per input, and might do so even per resolution. I think ideally you'll want to calibrate each input that you use, at the resolution you normally use on that input. So if you have a TiVo at 480i on input 1 (S-Video), you'd want to hook up a DVD player via S-Video and calibrate. It does depend on the TV, so check to see how your set remembers settings.
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GetGray is a test-pattern DVD, just like the one that came with the SpyderTV. Well, not just like it - GetGray has more & better patterns, and is very easy to use. You would not need GetGray if you just want to use the SpyderTV calibration wizard. However...
CalMAN - an Excel-based calibration tool - will help automate the calibration of your set down to tolerances much tighter than the SpyderTV wizard. I don't own CalMAN yet (seriously considering it), but I do have a similar (but very manual) Excel spreadsheet that helps me assemble and analyze measurements from the STV. The spreadsheet (by user Rader) is available on this forum if you want to see what level of tweaking is possible.
In order to use CalMAN, you need a test-pattern DVD, and GetGray would be a great choice, I think. So, a good low-cost calibration package would be:
- Spyder TV for the sensor
- GetGray for the test patterns
- CalMAN for the number-crunching and calibration assistance
You can register at the CalMAN forums (no purchase required) to see what people are saying about it. You can also read the whole Rader spreadsheet thread here to see what people have done with that tool.
Good luck.
| do I need to cailbrate each type of connection separately or just use the settings I got from my upconverting dvd/component for all of them? |
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| If I purchase Calman or the GetGray dvd how do they interact with the Spyder2 colorimeter? Or am I mistaken in thinking that they will work together somehow.. |
CalMAN - an Excel-based calibration tool - will help automate the calibration of your set down to tolerances much tighter than the SpyderTV wizard. I don't own CalMAN yet (seriously considering it), but I do have a similar (but very manual) Excel spreadsheet that helps me assemble and analyze measurements from the STV. The spreadsheet (by user Rader) is available on this forum if you want to see what level of tweaking is possible.
In order to use CalMAN, you need a test-pattern DVD, and GetGray would be a great choice, I think. So, a good low-cost calibration package would be:
- Spyder TV for the sensor
- GetGray for the test patterns
- CalMAN for the number-crunching and calibration assistance
You can register at the CalMAN forums (no purchase required) to see what people are saying about it. You can also read the whole Rader spreadsheet thread here to see what people have done with that tool.
Good luck.
