Still, I was finally having that nagging feeling there was more to it. Indeed, this new Mits has been coaxed into producing a better picture than the Pioneer Elite model it replaced, and at a third the cost. Service menus are child’s play, and in the case of the new Mits, I have even used a computer and special interface to reprogram the internal EEPROM in the TV to correct the factory-set color bias toward red in the color decoder. By this time, tweaking has become second nature. That attitude has not abated in the intervening years and now, five successively larger RPTVs later, I sit in front of a new 65″ Mitsubishi (WS-65411). Even after Joe Kane’s tutelage with the first edition of Video Essentials on laserdisc and the great reputation ISF calibration quickly achieved in the enthusiast community, I still felt I could make my TV look “good enough”. At the time I bought my first big screen and laserdisc player, there was no such thing as “professional calibration”. I read all about the Imaging Science Foundation from the very beginnings of the organization. After making a couple of mistakes that required professional intervention, I was well on the road to near obsessive tweaking. Even so, it was only a matter of weeks before I had the front access panel off and my hands probing regions that I had no business at the time probing. By then, consumer projection had reached the point that very nice large screen images could be had at home. My first large screen rear projection TV was a 50″ Pioneer in a huge walnut cabinet back in 1989. “Good enough” is nowhere near good enough, it turns out, now that this erstwhile DIY’er has now been weighed and measured, and found wanting. “Good enough” has been good enough for a long time, that is, until now. This is a cautionary tale of a would-be videophile who once though he knew “enough” about setting up a video monitor. Posted in Reviews Review by Robert George “Obi” Obi’s Reviews, Enthusiast: Mitsubishi WS65411 If you have a big screen projection TV, you owe it to yourself and your TV to get it calibrated. And the detail that you could now see was amazing. Little things that I used to notice (a slight blue or red ting to a white word or a slight bow to a straight line) were gone. We watched The Core later that night and it just looked incredible. The DVD looked so incredible that while the HD input was a tad better and a tad less grainy, I knew that we were missing on our DVD input for a long time. We then compared the HD feed to the DVD my Dad had and it was hard to tell the difference. Just absolutly stunning.Īfter Gregg left we were watching some HD of HBO (Captian Ron, if you’d like to know) and it looked awesome. YOu could see wrinkles in Willis’s Tux Tie during the Opera scene and the flesh tones were great. He was showing us detail in the blacks that I would have never seen or even think to look for, but it was showing us how great the projector could really look. He had to basically start from scratch to fix this image, and I have to say, it looks amazing now.Īfter Gregg was done the HD input, we broke out the Superbit 5th Element disc and he started walking us through many of the shots. The images were ALL over the place and convergence was shot to hell. This has never been setup correctly, and in truth, it’s been so bad lately we haven’t really watched much HD on that TV. He then ran through the convergance and fixed everything there. I’ll post the actual graphs that he printed out later, after I get them from him in electronic form. We were pretty close in the middle of the spectrum, but the edges were WAY off. 5 cm which I can live with (you’d never notice it, even if you KNEW it was there.) So the image is shifted to the right about. He attempted to center it on the screen exactly, but due to the fact that it had not been centered for almost 2 years, he was worried about showing the burn in on the tubes if he raster shifted the image. He succeeded in getting all of the bends and bows out of it and now the lines are perfectly straight. Gregg broke out some tape and string and measured to get the screen to be acurate. We had bows here and bends there and the entire image was shifted off axis a little bit. Gregg starts with the DVD input by running through the test patterns and notices that our gemoetry is off by quite a bit in areas. I had turned the projector on about 11:00 or so, so it had been warming up for a good while, which I know is important for these to get a good calibration out of them. Gregg got there somewhere between 12:30 and 1:00. After seeing Mike’s Mits in the Spring, we decided to give Gregg a call and get him to our place. I was aware that the geometry was off in spots and that the convergence needing touching up. We’ve had it ~ 2 years and I’ve always thought it provided a great picture, but I knew there were areas that could be improved. Gregg was at our place yesterday to calibrate our Runco 947 CRT FP thrown to a 110″.
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