Now look at what one has to do to try and get a half decent piccy from a 
plasma/LCD!!

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/19/hdtv_setup_guide/

Mike

On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:51:04 +0100, m  wrote:

>Now look at what one has to do to try and get a half decent piccy from a 
>plasma/LCD!!

Try this:-

1.Ensure that the set has been switched on for at least twenty
  minutes.

2. Set all the 'fancy' picture options to 'Off' or 'Neutral'.

3. Reduce 'Colour', 'Contrast' and 'Brightness' to zero.
   This should give a blank, black screen.

4. Slowly increase 'Brightness' until their is a just perceptible
   lightening of the screen.

5. Slowly increase 'Contrast' until you have an acceptable black and
   white picture. Some further small adjustment of 'Brightness' may be
   necessary to achieve this.

6. If you have a 'Gamma' control slowly increase 'Gamma' until you
   have sufficient amount of detail in the 'blacks'.

7. Make further small adjustments of 'Brightness' and 'Contrast' to
   optimize the black and white picture.

8. Increase 'Colour' to achieve realistic flesh tones.

The important thing is to get a decent black and white picture and to
use a reliable(?) programme source.
-- 
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In article ,
   m  wrote:
> Now look at what one has to do to try and get a half decent piccy from a 
> plasma/LCD!!

> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/19/hdtv_setup_guide/

;-)

ISTR chasing convergence errors round my first colour TV several times a
month. And never catching them.

-- 
*Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether *

    Dave Plowman        dave@davenoise.co.uk           London SW
                  To e-mail, change noise into sound.

No no no,  Michael Aspel ensured installations were a mysterious

art-form worthy of the £300 purchase price ;-)


http://www.zen77094.zen.co.uk/vintagebroadcasting/ctr.htm

-- 
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote in message 
news:508d5e2aafdave@davenoise.co.uk...
> In article ,
>   m  wrote:
>> Now look at what one has to do to try and get a half decent piccy from a
>> plasma/LCD!!
>
>> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/08/19/hdtv_setup_guide/
>
> ;-)
>
> ISTR chasing convergence errors round my first colour TV several times a
> month. And never catching them.




in the past people just put up with bad settings - my aunt and uncle's tv 
gave all white people bright orange faces - they seemed quite happy with 
it - didnt want me to change it.
with a lot of black people you could barely make out any facial details - 
the tv pandered to racial stereotypes giving the viewer just eyes and teeth.



-- 
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....

In article , The dog from that film you 
saw wrote:
> in the past people just put up with bad settings - my aunt and uncle's tv 
> gave all white people bright orange faces - they seemed quite happy with 
> it - didnt want me to change it.

They'd probably like CSI then. Everybody's face is almost exactly the same 
shade of orange, and I know it's not my TV set.

Rod.
-- 
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In message , Alan White 
 writes
>On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:51:04 +0100, m  wrote:
>
>>Now look at what one has to do to try and get a half decent piccy from a
>>plasma/LCD!!
>
>Try this:-
>
>1.Ensure that the set has been switched on for at least twenty
>  minutes.
>
>2. Set all the 'fancy' picture options to 'Off' or 'Neutral'.
>
>3. Reduce 'Colour', 'Contrast' and 'Brightness' to zero.
>   This should give a blank, black screen.
>
>4. Slowly increase 'Brightness' until their is a just perceptible
>   lightening of the screen.
>
>5. Slowly increase 'Contrast' until you have an acceptable black and
>   white picture. Some further small adjustment of 'Brightness' may be
>   necessary to achieve this.
>
>6. If you have a 'Gamma' control slowly increase 'Gamma' until you
>   have sufficient amount of detail in the 'blacks'.
>
>7. Make further small adjustments of 'Brightness' and 'Contrast' to
>   optimize the black and white picture.
>
>8. Increase 'Colour' to achieve realistic flesh tones.
>
>The important thing is to get a decent black and white picture and to
>use a reliable(?) programme source.

Does anyone else here remember Peter Fairley (the ITV's Science 
Correspondent) describing just this procedure in an IBA-sponsored piece 
broadcast from time to time on ITV?
-- 
Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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http://www.bluebadge.demon.co.uk

Now blogging in "The World According to Ian Jelf" at
http://ianjelf.blogspot.com

Graham. wrote:
> No no no,  Michael Aspel ensured installations were a mysterious
> 
> art-form worthy of the £300 purchase price ;-)
> 
> 
> http://www.zen77094.zen.co.uk/vintagebroadcasting/ctr.htm
> 

Thanks for that.

Helped me set up the CRT monitor I was watching it on ...

-- 
Adrian C