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Calibration help, please!
I've been having trouble properly calibrating my Toshiba 46LX177 LCD.
I'm using the Combo disc version of Joe Kane's DVE's High Definition disc. Contrast and brightness are no problem. When I use the HD side of the disc in my HDDVD player to calibrate colors I can get the 75% Bars, Grey Ref screen to perfectly match up reds, blues, and greens by making color palette adjustments in the "ColorMaster Pro" feature of the Toshiba, tweaking reds, greens, blues, yellow, magentas, and cyans.
And it looks great.
Now, when I pop in the SD DVD side of the disc into my HTPC and load it using Zoom Player (with colors set to default neutral) to calibrate, I use the same 75% Bars, Grey Ref screen and have to tweak the color palette again to get it looking right.
The problem is: the results LOOk completely different! That is, when I stick in the exact same SD DVD into the HD DVD player and the HTPC the HD DVD player version looks WAY more rich and reds more saturated. If I eyeball the difference I have to boost the reds off the scale for the HTPC input and therefore throw off the careful calibration.
You see (I hope)? In order for the two different inputs to show a similarly calibrated image (color-wise) the HTPC input has to be calibrated INCORRECTLY (according to the 75% Bars, Grey Reference screen). I don't get it. Sure, one is being calibrated with an HD source, the other with an SD source, but that shouldn't show such a drastic difference, should it?
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