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What Matters More? D6500 or "What looks best, personally"

With all this talk about gray-scale and 6500K color temperature and ISF and calibration, what is more important to most people?

Accurately and objectively presenting the intentions of directors, producers, and writers of movies, plays, and shows for broadcast on TV

- or - allowing TV owners to adjust their sets to look they they "feel" they should look.

One interesting factor here - most people - and probably none that visit this newsgroup, are AFRAID to adjust the 5 basic controls. Or if they are accessible only by hiting "Menu" on the remote as on all modern sets, owners simply don't know how to get to the picture controls. They assume that the picture as out of box is the "best" and looks the way it's supposed to.

I'll open the floor with what matters to me: Getting as close as I can to the 6500 ideal with the User controls and allowing as much of the artistic intention through as can get through.

But again, what I want is not what everybody wants.

Opinions?

-ChrisCoaster

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ChrisCoaster: Not everyone's eyes sees the same things in the same ways just like not everyone's taste, hearing, feeling, reaction to medicines, etc can all be quite different..... for example, the colors that people choose for their home decorating, or types of food they like, etc, etc.... so, while "standard settings" and presets are wonderful and a good standard place to start, it is imperative, for me at least, to be able to adjust colors, intensities, hues, sound parameters and all of those things to my own taste and preference.... not to mention that not all program material will look the same or sound the same. Just flip through a dozen or so channels on your television, or play a dozen or so DVDs, VCR tapes, CDs, etc, etc..... they can be vastly different in the way they present themselves. So in conclusion, I could care less about having a televison or sound system that is "perfectly" calibrated or has absolutely "flat response" (the proverbial strait wire) and for whatever (personal) reason I don't like the result.... I feel quite free and not guilty at all to be able to adjust things the way I like them according to what I see or hear with various sources. electricitym

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electricitym

Not only do people perceive colors differently, and have their own differing opinions on aesthetics, the ambient light in a home theater can cause the viewer's eyes to "white balance" in such a way that even if the display is calibrated perfectly, it will appear tinted one way or another.

I think that outside of this group's demographic, most people simply don't understand the controls, but I know that many who do not have no problem with adjusting them based on the "more is better" philosophy. I remember some superbowl games at friends' houses that nearly gave me flashbacks. Most people who do fiddle with the controls tend to make everything too bright, in my experience. They never seem to notice that anything white starts to bleed out and cover half the screen.

If you're producing material, though, the controls are needed and applied differently. If you're doing video or graphics work, it's important for your display to be as neutral as possible. At the extreme, even the room lighting and decor need to be chromatically neutral so that the production process does not skew the original image. Likewise, recording studio loudspeakers are designed to be completely flat in their frequency response. It might not sound very good, but it ensures that what the producer is hearing is what's actually being recorded. If the consumer wants to turn every eq knob all the way up, that's his option.

When I set a system up, I check to make sure it's displaying a full range of grays and that the tint looks right. Using a calibration disc usually just ends up reminding me that I can't afford a $5000 television set.

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stickyfox

I want my set to be calibrated as close as possible to what it should be. Bugs the heck out of me when I'm at someone else's house and everyone's face is pink on the TV or the color is WAY oversaturated.

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James Sweet

In a perfect world with perfect sources I would agree with your statement.... but do you "dare" adjust the hue or saturation or other adjustments when your viewing a source, tape, channel, etc that is NOT the way you think it should be??? electricitym

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electricitym

Your statement comes straight out of 1995, before calibration discs and all that were widely available.

Here in 2005 we have numerous options, including V.E., D.V.E, and AVIA. We have ISF certfied technicians who can adjust gray pallates and/or color decoders to make large displays resemble movie theaters. Annnnnnnnnnd, we have hook-up options, once available on only of every

10 TVs, now common place that blow away both coaxial(cable) and composite(RCA).

At minimum, an adjustment of the "basic 5" should be done with one of the above DVDs, with composite inputs. If the set has S-VIDEO, even better-SPEND THE 8 BUCKS FOR A SHORT S-VIDEO CABLE AND USE THE DAMN THING!! Component? You get the idea.

Anything beats the alternatives: Leaving the factory settings alone or personally jacking up Color, Sharpness, etc, thinking it "looks good".

Welcome to the 21st!

-CC

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