Theoretical TV issue

Jakg

But surely to be calibrated well (i.e. the most accurate colour reproduction) you want something that isn't subjective to do the test? (i.e. a machine vs human).

4743hudsonj

Or just visit http://www.lcdtvbuyingguide.com/.

They professionally calibrate all the tvs they test and post up the settings to copy, i did it for mine and it looks amazing.

vyle

Jakg wrote: »

But surely to be calibrated well (i.e. the most accurate colour reproduction) you want something that isn't subjective to do the test? (i.e. a machine vs human).

I dunno, I'm not the one who wants every TV professionally calibrated in a shop XD.

Or just visit http://www.lcdtvbuyingguide.com/.

They professionally calibrate all the tvs they test and post up the settings to copy, i did it for mine and it looks amazing.

Shame there's hardly any reviews on the site for models I stock.

4743hudsonj

vyle wrote: »

Shame there's hardly any reviews on the site for models I stock.

Yeh their reviews are rather limited (for obvious reasons) but its possible to still get near perfect calibration by picking a similar model. So for my tv (which wasnt actually present) i picked the same tv but one model up (1080p rather than 720p). But its the same settings so same results.

Gavin83

When I worked in Comet I used to play around with the sharpness, brightness and contrast to try and get a decent image, and I'd normally turn off any imaging processing too. By no means a professional calibrated TV but better than nothing.

I think they'd be issues with showing expensively calibrated images instead of your bog standard one which is one possible reason they don't bother, along with the cost.

bap98189

What's stupid is shops like our local Currys having thousands of pounds of HD TV's on display, all with a scart plug in the back of them and displaying standard TV output. Never mind calibrating them, they could at least display them showing a Blu-Ray rather than the dodgy TV signal.

vuvuzela

bap98189 wrote: »

What's stupid is shops like our local Currys having thousands of pounds of HD TV's on display, all with a scart plug in the back of them and displaying standard TV output. Never mind calibrating them, they could at least display them showing a Blu-Ray rather than the dodgy TV signal.

I can beat that, I was in Asda the other day and they had a bank of TVs set up as usual, all showing the same thing through a shared input.
However what they were showing was a comparison (DVD ?) from Sky meant to highlight the difference between freeview and Sky HD. The signal was so bad to each TV that the difference was unnoticeable and both sides (freeview equivalent and HD equivalent) had pixellation and breakups from the terrible setup

vyle

vuvuzela wrote: »

I can beat that, I was in Asda the other day and they had a bank of TVs set up as usual, all showing the same thing through a shared input.
However what they were showing was a comparison (DVD ?) from Sky meant to highlight the difference between freeview and Sky HD. The signal was so bad to each TV that the difference was unnoticeable and both sides (freeview equivalent and HD equivalent) had pixellation and breakups from the terrible setup

bap98189 wrote: »

What's stupid is shops like our local Currys having thousands of pounds of HD TV's on display, all with a scart plug in the back of them and displaying standard TV output. Never mind calibrating them, they could at least display them showing a Blu-Ray rather than the dodgy TV signal.

Oh dear. I often switch to SD when showing customers TVs, mainly so I can go "Is that watchable?"

them: Yes

me: Ok, cos it can't get any worse than that.

If I don't, then people will inevitably send the TVs back claiming secret european laws that the TV isn't fit for purpose because it isn't in HD or something.

At work we have the Sky sales channel running sometimes and the amount of idiots who don't bother reading what it says on the screen (i.e. "Comparable quality to freeview", then when it switches to hd "Sky HD") and stand there going: "Well I don't know why this TV is £1000 it's all fuzzy.....oh, now it's good....now it's fuzzy. It's good again! Why are there borders? The borders have gone :O! I think there's something wrong with the TV...it keeps changing."

That's one thing that drives me crazy, actually. They see a TV showing a full screen 16:9 picture, then when a cinemascope aspect film comes on, they worry that every program will have horizontal borders. How hard is it to read what's on the screen, or use their brain and say: "Hmm, that freeview picture was full screen, but now this movie that was shot in cinemascope is shown with borders. Could it possibly be that programs are displayed in the manner in which they're broadcast?"