Help finding calirbration/colour settings ue40f6400

[KnightStalker]

Hey guys, im hoping some of you guys will be able to help with this, ive recently got this TV as a gift ue40f6400 and while impressed (coming from a 15" CRT lol) im not so happy with how the picture looks at all, looking quite faded and washed out - had a quick google and it doesnt seem a popular model with not many settings to be found, dug up a few 2012 model ones but unsure if they will cross onto the 2013 model that i have..

Anyone help me out with this, would really hate to have to tell the person i dont like it lol.

 

[lucid]

I know it seems like a good idea, and it looks like lots of people do this, but honestly it really doesn't work all that well.

I installed a customers top of the range Panasonic plasma last weekend. He had been using it on a table stand for a few weeks before I hung it. In that time he'd done the same as you. The person who's settings were used said they'd calibrated their screen. I calibrate for a living, and so I was able to put up a very simple test pattern to show how well the TV was displaying colour. The test pattern looks like this



But using the settings from the web there were some very noticeable shifts in the colour tone. The pattern looked something like this



If you want to sort out the washed out colour then you don't need someone else's settings. Use a test disc (DVE HD Basics) or download the AVS rec 709 test patterns and burn your own. Set up the brightness and the contrast correctly. To do the master colour control you could do with a blue filter gel to look through. You get one with the DVE disc but not when you download files. Something along the lines of Lee Filters "713 J.Winter Blue" would do.

 

[KnightStalker]

Bugger thought id be able to find a ball park for the panel, but thinking about it every panel will be different one of those things i should have thought about before posting - I dont currently have any DVD player or games console in the house at the moment, so the disc will have to wait a while, unless i can stream from pc to TV and still make it work (ill have to look into that, its got wifi and is a smart tv). This is my first LCD TV, ive made do with a 15" crt portable for years lol.

Ive managed to get colours looking a bit more vibrant, using the picture perfect videos guide, havent finished it all yet but its an improvement over stock settings (eco dimming was playing havoc which i didnt know till i turned it off)