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In Reply to: RE: thanks. posted by j_thunders on January 10, 2013 at 13:30:13
...mimicking someone else's settings on your TV. Been there and done that and my results were disappointing. Skip Best Buy's so-called ISF calibration unless you can get a tech that's certified. Otherwise, get the Video Essentials disc. Probably all you need. (By the way, if you want to get a REAL ISF calibration, see if you can still get hold of Seth Schnaibel at AVS Consulting. He did a Sony for me and the results were fabulous. The bad news is it's going to cost about $300).
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If the settings were done by a real ISF certified guy, they should be close, unless the room lighting is WAY different. Most are set for dark or semi-dark rooms. Yes, $300 sounds about right. This requires a lot of expensive equipment, and several hours of time. I have several calibrating discs including VE, and the numbers I got from AVS are much more nuanced and detailed than I could ever get from them. The discs will only go so far.
But, as they say, YMMV.
Jack
Edits: 01/11/13
...means they adjust color, tint, sharpness, contrast, and brightness. All stuff the user should be able to do with a little patience, even without a disc. A true ISF calibration means getting "behind the scene" to the set-up menu. This is inaccessible to guys like us without Panasonic's access code. If one does manage to get in, without the proper understanding and equipment, things could REALLY get messed up!
BB does a standard ISF calibration via the set's Service Menu. And they have the proper gear to do a proper calibration...They would NOT be able to call it an ISF calibration if they didn't do so.
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Please read the last four words of my subject line. I read several posts on the AVS forum and they all said BB's procedure was as I stated. Now if that's not correct, then good for BB. If they do a real ISF calibration for $300, then that's fair and I have no problem being set straight.
the war department is already so far up my rear end on the cost of this little project that i can see her roots.
i'm at $4200, all in, all done, tax + shipping for the tv, receiver, dvd player, and a calibration disc.
i try to negotiate, but she's been pretty clear with me on the concept that she's not going a penny more.
i'm trying to explain to her that i've got all this ttly cool stuff i can sell on a'gon that ppl will ttly buy -- just trust me!
she's like, yeah, go kill yourself.
things are tense.
totally packed with shit from some home joint or another, if that wasn't bad enuf, she said, you gotta go to Home Goods, they're holding a rug and cabinet I couldn't fit in the Infiniti. As God is my witness, I swear I thought we were done buying rugs a year ago. Didn't realize we needed an 8x10 in the f@#*ing breakfast nook.
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A pox on his family and 100 years of bad luck for the inventor of "Intelligent Touchpads" for laptops!!!
and furniture, and fancy framing, and the stupid little mops of morkie dogs named "dum dum" that cost me $700 every time it goes to the vet.
and don't even get me started on the cost of her tennis habit.
bottom line, it's my turn.
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