Thread: Ordered a Chroma 5 and Calman Home

Decided it was time to do some experimenting of my own .

Guy on another forum has used one on this same tv with great results, so I'm gonna pick his brain to learn how to use it. Then on to my Dads and my Father n laws HDTV.




X-Rite Chroma 5 Colorimeter with CalMAN

I thought Gregg was calibrating your tv the other day. Did he get snowed in?

He did

I want to experiment!

Cool. Good luck.

I am interested in the Spyder3hdmi.
It was shown at this years CES but has not hit the market yet.

I think itll be fun, kinda like changing your own oil. Gonna take some reading though!

Man, Calman is a pretty nice program. You can choose beginner or intermediate, have the AVSHD 709 DVD ready, and it points you into what to do next. Cool!

Here are the first results. I sat in front of the tv from 10pm, to 5am getting calman, the proper way to adjust, and other things straight.

Gonna go back in tonight and experiment, because I changed static gamma to -2 for this run, but -3 is prob better.

Can't wait to mess with friends and family's tv's!

Also calibrated with LD on, but it requires fill window patterns, and the AVS 709 disc makes it easy.

So did you do a before and after? How bad did you screw up what Greg did?

Here is the report from my Pioneer 6020 last Summer when DNice (from AVS Forms) calibrated for me.

Hehe. It's amazing how accurate those PIO's can get.

I noted his settings so i can always go back. Im still experimenting/learning, but its fun.

I'm fixing to tape my windows and get back to it. Think I have all the tech questions answered this am that I need, and a little better understanding.

I'm gonna do a baseline, with the best user settings/dve we came up with, then with the SM settings from another guy (so we can prove they do or dont transfer well as compared to stock settings), and then I'll see what the best I can get out of it is. Figure its a good 5 hours of work.

I am walking dead right now, will sleep good tonight! Its just damn addicting