Monitor/tv colour calibration help

Snookums · 2 Jan 2015 at 03:55

I've always had a problem using my tv's as screens, I've had two different screens now which are a pain to look. So I tend to stick with just my monitor and drop the 2nd screen.
Anyway does anyone know a good calibration program?

Badfish · 2 Jan 2015 at 14:22

What kind of problems do you have? What OS are you using?

For me, running a Windows 8 PC on my TV, I just tweaked the screen size using the Windows display settings as the default was a little to small for my TV.

ED209 · 2 Jan 2015 at 14:32

that's all i had to do, got a monitor and a TV and all i need to do was change the screen size slightly but apart from that i have had no issues using either of them

what issues are you having and how are you connecting the PC to the TV?

Snookums · 2 Jan 2015 at 16:17

im on windows 7, I've spent hours trying to calibrate them and they still look really off. I've tried using the windows colour calibration and it hasn't worked. The colours just seem really off but the tv is fine with everything else. Im connected through a HDMI to dvi but have the same problem with a vga and a HDMI

Sighn · 2 Jan 2015 at 17:11

Played around with any black level options on your TV? RGB colour options in driver?

ruben_c · 4 Jan 2015 at 09:59

Using a TV as computer screen is a bad idea. In any case, to match them and have show them reliable colours, you should calibrate them with a hardware sensor like spyder.