Calibration Disc

**HD-MAN** · 01-17-2008 07:54 PM

I Have a Monster calibration disc, would this be good enough to calibrate my Samsung fpt-5884 (Plasma). Or should I go to best buy and get one of their techs to do it professionally ? I want to get the best picture possible and most of all I don't want to burn out my system.

**Brahma** · 01-17-2008 07:59 PM

(smiles) You better do it yourself.. I've seen those BB techs. Maybe your's are better than mine..

Who all think that all tv's come equipped with HDMI v1.3

**Third Eye** · 01-17-2008 09:09 PM

Try it yourself. I've not used the Monster disc, don't have a clue if it's any good or not. Sorry.

I've Avia, and well, I did really badly, the first 3 or 4 times. I got fingers, and they touch other things like butter, before they touch the handy dandy color films needed to calibrate colors.

yeah, I know, wash the damn hands. I've learned.

I know that Monster claims to be easier. I don't know that it translates as better.

Just try it, if it don't work, try it again, if it don't work, ask BB for a quote, then check with local specialty HT shops, where they don't have huge store fronts, but focus on HT installs specifically. It'll cost ya.

Just try, you can only fail, and that's better than not trying.

I keep telling myself that, cause I failed so many times...finally succeeded though.

**Arkadin** · 01-17-2008 09:11 PM

I mean a professional calibration involves going into the service menu and all that. so it's really a totally different deal. the "calibration" discs are very limited compared to a "real" calibration, but can certainly be useful.

**Third Eye** · 01-17-2008 09:17 PM

True, still....best buy?

I'm biased, I guess. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said "I'd never join organization who'd have me as a member"

It's humorous, yet I apply that to Best Buy HT techs. I'd never have someone calibrate my HT who'd hire me to do the same for others. I'm limited in that area. I had another big box store calibrate my family room HT, and I ended up having to re-do it, right after they left, and again, I'm only still a learner.

**BillFrugge** · 01-18-2008 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by Third Eye

I'm biased, I guess. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said "I'd never join organization who'd have me as a member"

I think it was Julius (Groucho) Marx.

**Arkadin** · 01-18-2008 11:33 PM

Woody Allen says it in "Annie Hall."

**jihzaman** · 01-19-2008 12:14 AM

Best Buy in Atlanta contracts out all of their calibrations to local ISF Techs.

**mrspeakers** · 01-19-2008 01:58 AM

Groucho was the original. :-)

**Brahma** · 01-19-2008 02:11 AM

If anyone belongs to blockbusters.. they have Avia 1 and 2 for rental release.

**johnADA** · 01-19-2008 08:38 AM

Please remember that calibration disc's DO NOT CALIBRATE the TV per say.
It calibrates the problems incurred by the DVD player.
How many DVD players made today are accurate?
Some have white crush problems
Black Level problems
and so on.

**LastSonOfKrypton** · 01-19-2008 08:49 AM

DVE: HD Basics comes out on both formats 3/25...that is if it doesn't get pushed back. I have really high hopes for this version. The last DVE had all the instructions on the SD side and never explained all the HD patters. You had to read a massive book to understand how to use them.

So IMHO just use the Monster one for the time being. The only thing pro's can do that you can't is change settings in the service menu which YOU SHOULD NEVER GO INTO. I've only been in mine to see my hrs on on plasma when I was workin' on a break-in period.

Hopes this helps!

**HD-MAN** · 01-19-2008 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by johnADA

Please remember that calibration disc's DO NOT CALIBRATE the TV per say.
It calibrates the problems incurred by the DVD player.
How many DVD players made today are accurate?
Some have white crush problems
Black Level problems
and so on.

That was my next question. On some sets if you adjust the calibration via disc it will set it one way and when you go back to the regular tv menu the settings are different. Should I adjust the tv with the same setting as for a dvd player menu ?

**johnADA** · 01-19-2008 06:14 PM

No, I would not.
Like I said you corrected for the DVD player, not the TV.
Then connection types make a difference, so if your using HDMI then component etc for your broadcast stuff, it will be different.

For blacks and whites I like to use shopping channels. They use a solid black or white screen bottom for pricing.
Then cartoon network to get colors and help with tint.

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