Anyone use the Sound & Vision calibration disc? (1 Viewer)

[Jim Mcc]

I have the X1 projector and a HD sat. receiver hooked up to VGA/component adapter of X1, and my DVD player hooked up to S-video/component adapter of X1. How do I calibrate the sat. receiver, or will it be the same as the other input? Can anyone explain how to do the contrast settings with the S&V disc, the instructions don't make sense to me? Do I set contrast so the top box and second box blend together? The narrator talks about "blooming", but I don't know what he is saying to do. Thanks for any advice.

 

[Randy C Sr]

I used that setup disc. If I remember right when you are doing the contrast and brightness isn't there a vertical bar moving side to side. You want to adjust it so it seems to fade away. The blooming they are talking about is when a bright color like red or yellow sort of blurs (jumps out) at you. Instead of having a defined line where the colored object ends it sort of bleeds into whatever is beside it.

 

[Jim Mcc]

Thanks Randy. The test you are describing(2 moving bars side to side) is for brightness, and that is no problem. The contrast setting is the one I need help with. There are a series of boxes on top of each other in shades of gray. This is where he talks about "blooming", but I don't know what the hell he's talking about, so I need help. Anybody know about this? Also, since I'm using a different input for DVD and satellite, do I need to calibrate them separately? Thanks.