TV Calibration.

Boleyn

Boleyn

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Hi all.

I'm about to get a LG 49UF850V 4k TV and ocviously would like to set it up to get the best picture possible.

I've read around a bit and these seem to be the options:

1, Get a professional in and spend £200-£300 per TV

2, Get an free app called THX Tune-up but spend £40 on a Lightning Digital AV Adapter and do all your TV's.

3, Buy Spears & Munsil HD Benchmark and Calibration Blu-Ray, 2nd Edition for about £25 but I may need to spend more for a colorimeter and again do all your TV's for life.

I'm a novice at this but obviously would prefer option 2 or 3.

Can anyone make a suggestion? I'm not a videophile so it doesn't have to be 100% perfect but I want it to be pretty close.

Thank you.
 
chroniclard said:
Be fine for the vast majority of people. :)
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Even though that link specifically stated that with a sample size of 50 TV's only 2% of those improved from copied settings?

The best thing for the OP to do is make sure his TV is set to Movie/Cinema mode, disable all processing functions and then use a test disk to set brightness, contrast, colour and sharpness.

That's about the best you can do without a colorimeter.
 
I found the video calibration feature on the Xbox one seemed to give me a good picture. Especially when showing a photo of an item I could hold next to the TV.
 
professional calibrators charge £200-£300 because it's not easy to do what they do.

i would go for option 1, anything else and i bet you make the picture worse unless your already handy at calibrating.
 
I bought a i1 Display Pro, I did my computer monitor with it and have my plasma TV also connected to the TV, it fails as it says the gamma isn't high enough, I didn't know what to do so just manually set it as close as I could get.
 
I would just get a i1 display pro and do it yourself. I bought mine mainly for my monitor but i just got an oled last week and used my i1 display pro for that too. It takes abit of reading up and understanding what to do but you can pretty much dial in the greyscale and gamma perfectly with it providing its not faulty and gives you dodgy readings.
The only thing i wouldn't mess with is CMS controls but once you have white balance perfect or as close as you can get to perfect your picture will already be very accurate.
 
Spears & Munsil is a good investment for anyone who took the time and trouble to research what's a good TV to buy rather than just choosing something based on price. It will help you set up the main user settings and get them correct for the lighting conditions in your room. That alone is a big step forward for most TV owners.

Calibration is the next step up the ladder. The one commodity you have which isn't costing you is 'time'. If you buy a light sensor then you can spend days or weeks tweaking the setting on your TV. You'll mess it up at first; but don't worry, everyone does that. It will also take you time to learn how your TV responds to various controls and adjustments and then to understand how they interact. After a couple of weeks of fiddling you should be able to get a half decent greys calendar and maybe close on the gamma too. These things are important but in my calibrations they are some of the last steps in the calibration process. I spend as much time on motion processing and detail retrieval as I do on colour and gamma. The difference with a professional calibration such as mine is that I achieve in a day what might take you six months of quite intensive work to get close to. It's experience and having the right tools to see beyond just the basic R, G and B values required for a half decent grey scale that sets a good calibrator apart from the rest. That's why is costs the money it does.
 
Thank you so much everyone.

Some great advice.

For now I will start with the Picture Perfect lude1962 linked above and see how it looks after I have gone through all the steps.

If after that I think I could achieve more I'll look into some of the more expensive options listed here.

Thanks again everyone.
 
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