{"id":240,"date":"2017-01-16T09:11:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T16:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2017-01-19T08:27:47","modified_gmt":"2017-01-19T15:27:47","slug":"calibrating-your-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/?p=240","title":{"rendered":"Calibrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I&#8217;ve taken a crack at several times over several decades.\u00a0 Now I think I&#8217;m actually getting somewhere&#8230;<!--more-->A great Primer to help you sort out all the lingo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acousticfrontiers.com\/uhd-101-v2\/\" target=\"_blank\">UHD 101: Demystifying 4K, UHD Blu Ray, wide color gamut, HDR, 4:4:4, 18Gbps and the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The meter you will want to buy, with the best Price-performance ratio is the i1Display Pro (Rev.B).\u00a0 It is the most accurate colorimeter that won&#8217;t break the bank.\u00a0 Yes it beats the Spyder 5.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/2715745-x-rite-i1-display-pro-work-4k.html#post49906681\" target=\"_blank\">A list<\/a> of meter peak brightness.<\/p>\n<h4>Pattern Generator(s) \/ Sources<\/h4>\n<p>AVSHD709<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/2463698-r-masciola-s-hdr-10-uhd-test-patterns.html\" target=\"_blank\">R.Masciola&#8217;s HDR Patterns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chromecast &#8211; cheap and effective.\u00a0 Not entirely accurate, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1987602-argyllcms-v1-7-0-has-been-released.html#post33911298\" target=\"_blank\">zoyd has written dithering correction factors<\/a> so it is acceptable.<br \/>\nPlasmas and the use of APL patterns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For example I had a customer which using my disk with LightSpace and eeColor for full video chain calibration with a Panasonic GT60. That TV was very unstable with any profiling using it&#8217;s max output for 11% Window patterns, for example to 120nits&#8230;&#8230; we performed a lot of test to find out why is not stable, using LightSpace and it&#8217;s RGB Separation charts (which not available to other software) and we found that GT60 was performing ultra stable only with peak white up to 80nits, with higher it has unstable. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1517849-comparison-3dlut-solutions-eecolor-box-26.html\" target=\"_blank\">ConnecTEDDD<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Steve Shaw @ Light Illusion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1517849-comparison-3dlut-solutions-eecolor-box-26.html\" target=\"_blank\">not a fan of APL windows<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>they can easily distort the profiling, as they are artificially altering the display&#8217;s response to the actual colour patch.<br \/>\nThe best sequences we find are the standard 21^3 Anisometric patch sequences, with a Drift Compensation of around 100 for displays that suffer ABL\/ASBL, including HDR displays.<br \/>\nThere is actually no set ideal <strong>size<\/strong> &#8211; is depends on your actual display&#8217;s characteristics.\u00a0 But, it is easy to find the correct size for your display by performing a Primary Only Quick Profile, and comparing the results.\u00a0 The correct size will show the best Gamma and RGB Separation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seems it&#8217;s possible I&#8217;m over-driving my Plasma at 120nit.<\/p>\n<p>Zoyd, uses 8% windows on a 25% APL pattern for plasmas.\u00a0 However, APL black levels will read higher, so one option would be to just set a fixed black level equal to whatever you measure (on my set I use 0.018 cd\/m^2)<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1393853-hcfr-open-source-projector-display-calibration-software-208.html#post35635018\" target=\"_blank\">TED&#8217;s disc with HCFR<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Using your PC as a test generator?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-253 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-11-at-9.22.35-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-11-at-9.22.35-AM.png 480w, http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2015-08-11-at-9.22.35-AM-300x51.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3DLUT creation is not equal.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1517849-comparison-3dlut-solutions-eecolor-box.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> is a comparison from 2014.\u00a0 More recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1517849-comparison-3dlut-solutions-eecolor-box-22.html#post33762785\" target=\"_blank\">updated<\/a> in 2015.\u00a0 Argyll fares very well against commercial offerings, besting CalMAN and (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightillusion.com\/calibration_comparison.html\" target=\"_blank\">until recently<\/a>) edging out Lightspace.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avsforum.com\/forum\/139-display-calibration\/1464890-eecolor-processor-argyllcms.html#post23118583\" target=\"_blank\">older tutorial<\/a> on setting up DisplayCal for the eeColor.<\/p>\n<p>Using custom profile sets in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightillusion.com\/forums\/index.php?action=vthread&amp;forum=8&amp;topic=237\" target=\"_blank\">Lightspace for a Panasonic Plasma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is something I&#8217;ve taken a crack at several times over several decades.\u00a0 Now I think I&#8217;m actually getting somewhere&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wiki.lillerant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}