Do I need a professinal to calibrate my TV? (1 Viewer)

[Alex-F-V]

Well I am glad to say I have finally purchased a 43" sammy DLP and its coming wednesday!!! But my question for you guys is do I need someone to come to my house and 'profesionally' calibrate it. Or if I use Avia or one of those types of disc will it be just as good?

What exactly can a profesional do that I can't?

Thnak you in advance,
Alex

 

[Jack Briggs]

A professional can calibrate your monitor's grayscale-tracking ability from the service menu, using specialized equipment. While a calibration disc is essential, you cannot do a grayscale calibration from the user menus.

 

[BradD]

How important is this step for the average HT?

 

[ChrisWiggles]

Grayscale calibration is something that techs will do faster/better, and ISFs or other calibrators with good experience with your display will definitely be able to get the *MOST* out of your set.

You can play around with grayscale yourself with some nifty contraptions without having to shell out BIG $$ for a colorimiter, etc.

Anyway, I straw from my point which is this:

ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS A *THOUSAND TIMES OVER* calibrate your set with a test disc. I can't stress this enough. This will provide a *VAST* improvement in picture quality on almost all TVs, and those that remain, may not be quite "vast" but VERY significant indeed, and worth WAY more than the measly 25-40 bucks you pay for the disc.

This won't be totally as good as a pro, as they can calibrate things like grayscale, and get things REALLY good with so much experience, however, I DEFINITELY think you should calibrate on your own first. It's not so much a "test disc" OR Pro calibration, it's more that a test disc lets you handle all the basics for a GREAT picture, and you call in the pro if you really care about the picture quality for that nth degree, they can really make a set shine.

If you're thinking about how important grayscale is, IMO it's not beans in comparison to the HUGE importance of a basic calibration. Once you know good video with that, then you might justify taking it to that last step.

Hope that rambling made sense.

 

[Alex-F-V]

Chris that is exactly the responce I was hoping for. Of course I will take your guy's advice and use a calibration disc, and if I really feel that I need more from my set I will call a pro. Thx a lot everyone!!!

 

[EduardoBonifaz]

I suggest you to calibrate your set by yourself, it´s entertaining, a learning experience, and improves your ability to distinguish picture detail ( and unfortunately also picture flaws), :frowning: , I´ve calibarted my set with Avia, a think 3-4 times and the parameters vary a little, every time, I think you become more skilled with time, maybe in a future I´ll need a pro to go further, (first I´ll ask my wife and wallet )

Wish my comment help you