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Calibrating white level with disney WOW

 
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peter_jam



Joined: 05 Aug 2011
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:43 pm    Post subject: Calibrating white level with disney WOW

Hello everyone,
Yesterday I got my copy of disney's world of wonder calibration blu ray. Since it was already late, I only had time to glance through the basic video calibration, and I plan to perform a full calibration later today. However, I noticed something when adjusting the white level. On the screen, you get a display with three bars on the left, a big white square on the right, and another three bars on the right. The instructions say that you should increase your white level until the center square becomes a white resembling clouds or a new white shirt, and until you only see the first bar on the right, and the last 2 become the same level of white. My problem is that I turned the white level all the way up (I think it's the contrast control right? I can't remember right now but I'm sure I didn't get that wrong since both the menu and the booklet explain it clearly), but I can still clearly see the 3 bars on the right. Do you think this can be corrected once I perform the advance calibration setup? Also, when adjusting sharpness, all the edges from the calibration template seemed really defined with sharpness all the way down to zero, and I saw almost no difference when I turned it back up. Could this be because of the high resolution? Because I don't think that zero is an appropiate setting. Any help will be appreciated, I'm sorry if these seem like a silly questions, but I saved money for a long time so that I could buy and lcd tv and a blu ray player, so I'm trying to get the most of them. Thank you very much.

P.S. My TV is a Philips 40PFL5505D/F7, in case you needed to know.
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Spanky Ham



Joined: 22 Mar 2006
Posts: 5643
Location: Comedy Central

Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:26 pm    Post subject:

I didn't read your post except the part about Disney's WOW. I wouldn't use it as a test disc. From inside info, it has a lot of problems. I would use Spears and Munsil or the AVS test disc.
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Gannon



Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 164
Location: Detroit or the Interstates

Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2011 7:39 pm    Post subject:

I second that emotion. I got royally screwed using it after I lost my copy of Digital Video Essentials in BluRay.

Spears & Munsil with the Joe Kane disc is my collection of test signals...


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