Thorerik
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- Erik
Help me out here.
When adjusting your new HDTV it seems that you have a few options. (1) Use test DVD's (done that), (2) Use a Spyder Colormeter, (3) Go whole hog and have an ISF rep come out and adjust your set. I like to tweek my own stuff so I looked into buying a Spyder (less than $100) or get some Sencore equipment and spend thousands.
So what's the right choice to make? When I wrote to the people that make the Sypder they told me that the most important adjustment was the color or "gamma" as they called it. With the Spyder it appears that you cannot set the color temp with absolute certainty. ISF says that adjusting the color temp to that of sunlight is the most important since even if you adjust the colors correctly they will look different in differing color temperatures. If you go with the IHSF it's a one time thing. As your TV ages so does the adjustments. It would get expensive to recalibrate all the time.
Who's right? Why the big price difference in the equipment? Can't someone make a device cheaply that will accurately measure color temp? How far off can your TV's color temp be before it affects anything?
At least for me what drives me is cost. I don't have unlimited funds and would like to get the biggest bang for the buck. I was also thinking that buying a Spyder and offering a service to my friends to adjust their HDTV's would be cool. So I'm asking if anyone has had experience or advice in this area.
Erik
When adjusting your new HDTV it seems that you have a few options. (1) Use test DVD's (done that), (2) Use a Spyder Colormeter, (3) Go whole hog and have an ISF rep come out and adjust your set. I like to tweek my own stuff so I looked into buying a Spyder (less than $100) or get some Sencore equipment and spend thousands.
So what's the right choice to make? When I wrote to the people that make the Sypder they told me that the most important adjustment was the color or "gamma" as they called it. With the Spyder it appears that you cannot set the color temp with absolute certainty. ISF says that adjusting the color temp to that of sunlight is the most important since even if you adjust the colors correctly they will look different in differing color temperatures. If you go with the IHSF it's a one time thing. As your TV ages so does the adjustments. It would get expensive to recalibrate all the time.
Who's right? Why the big price difference in the equipment? Can't someone make a device cheaply that will accurately measure color temp? How far off can your TV's color temp be before it affects anything?
At least for me what drives me is cost. I don't have unlimited funds and would like to get the biggest bang for the buck. I was also thinking that buying a Spyder and offering a service to my friends to adjust their HDTV's would be cool. So I'm asking if anyone has had experience or advice in this area.
Erik