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stefuel
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| Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 11:53 am Post subject: HDTV test pattern, setup question |
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Now that I've resolved all my HDMI switching issues and have averything connected the way I want, it's time to re-calibrate. My commercial grade test pattern generator crapped out (for some reason pumping out way to much green) and would cost more to send it out for repair and re-calibration then it's worth. Is it worth the expense of buying a new TPG or just get a copy of Digital Video Essentials for BD and settle for that. The scaler I use for all my SD analog sources has built in test patterns so my only concern is HD 1080I from my Fios STB and 1080P from my PS3. Thanks,
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stefuel
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How does that work if you don't have a BD burner?
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ecrabb
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Chip,
Depending on what BD player you have, you can probably just burn the image on a standard DVD+/-R. From the very top of the page:
| Quote: | AVCHD (.exe) or AVCHD (.7z) - RC1 Revision 2/21/08
The AVCHD can be burned to DVD for playback on compatible Blu-ray players. Sony and the PS3, Panasonic, Pioneer, and the LG BH200 Blu-ray players have all been reported to be AVCHD compatible. |
If you don't want to mess with that, pick up DVE on BD from Amazon.
SC
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MikeEby
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Yep, you sure can. I burned a copy to a standard DVD. The problem I see with AVS709 is it doesn't include any geometry patterns. So DVE is probably the way to go.
I'm curious can a PS3 read a BMP or PNG file?
I could make my little test pattern program export to those formats with very little effort. Then you could roll your own geometry patters and get pixel perfect output without the decoder. For gray scale of course you want the decoder.
Your cable box is a problem, I'm not sure how you can get a signal threw it without spending big bucks.
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stefuel
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I have a PS3. Curious if one could just select a couple of required test patterns such as a overscan, 0-100 ire window, circle and crosshatch patterns from that download and save them to a thumb drive for use in a PS3?
Of course the commercial disk would be the lazy man's (ME) way out 
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MikeEby
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Chip,
For gray scale I think you want to use a disk based solution because you want to sure the decoder is in the signal chain.
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