Colour cast with B&W movies

Any ideas on how to set a RPTV for watching B&W movies? They often
have a purply colour cast that's difficult to adjust. Would dedicating
an unused mode (vivid say) and setting the colour down to zero work (I
have my doubts since white is just the intense superposition of the 3
colour guns)? (yes I will try it, just wondering what others have
tried)....thanks for any suggestions or pointers to articles or online
references!

"Palladiotypist" wrote in message
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Any ideas on how to set a RPTV for watching B&W movies? They often
have a purply colour cast that's difficult to adjust. Would dedicating
an unused mode (vivid say) and setting the colour down to zero work (I
have my doubts since white is just the intense superposition of the 3
colour guns)? (yes I will try it, just wondering what others have
tried)....thanks for any suggestions or pointers to articles or online
references!


I would recommend getting Avia Guide to Home Theater on DVD and calibrating
your TV - once this is done (tint, hue, contrast, brightness, sharpness,
etc.), you will probably find your B&W movies will look good unless there is
something wrong with your TV or is it is very out of wack.




Dennis

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"Palladiotypist" wrote in message
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I would recommend getting Avia Guide to Home Theater on DVD and
calibrating
your TV - once this is done (tint, hue, contrast, brightness, sharpness,
etc.), you will probably find your B&W movies will look good unless there
is
something wrong with your TV or is it is very out of wack.




Dennis



I second this!
Clay

Dennis' Newsgroups wrote:

I would recommend getting Avia Guide to Home Theater on DVD and calibrating
your TV - once this is done (tint, hue, contrast, brightness, sharpness,
etc.), you will probably find your B&W movies will look good unless there is
something wrong with your TV or is it is very out of wack.

How does Avia compare to Digital Video Essentials? Avia is twice
the price and I'm curious if it is justified. I'm looking for a disc to
help me tune my Toshiba 42H82. The set looks quite lousy in dark scenes on
movies like The Matrix and T2 played through a Toshiba SD-3800 dvd player.
I'm using Acoustic Research component video cables and the dvd player is
set to progressive scan.
In the fight scene at the beginning of The Matrix, I see
considerable artifacting when the camera focuses on dark objects. Instead
of being solid black or grey, I see random grey and black boxes. Any
suggestions besides purchasing one of the HT dvds? Thanks a lot.

mr-david

ovation software has come out with a disk for sound & vision magazine called
"home theater tune-up". this is the same company that puts out avia's guide
to home theater, but the home theater tune up disk has a msrp of only 20
bucks and i think you can find it for even less. i have used both and they
are almost the same thing, except that the cheaper one (home theater tune
up) also has dts test signals (including DTS ES test signals, both DTS ES
6.1 matrix and DTS ES 6.1 discrete, as well as Dolby Digital EX test
signals) even if they cost the same, i think the home theater tune up is a
better disk.

if you havent bought the avia disk yet i would HIGHLY recommend looking into
its cheaper brother.

randy

How does Avia compare to Digital Video Essentials? Avia is twice
the price and I'm curious if it is justified. I'm looking for a disc to
help me tune my Toshiba 42H82. The set looks quite lousy in dark scenes on
movies like The Matrix and T2 played through a Toshiba SD-3800 dvd player.
I'm using Acoustic Research component video cables and the dvd player is
set to progressive scan.
In the fight scene at the beginning of The Matrix, I see
considerable artifacting when the camera focuses on dark objects. Instead
of being solid black or grey, I see random grey and black boxes. Any
suggestions besides purchasing one of the HT dvds? Thanks a lot.

mr-david

Palladiotypist wrote:

Any ideas on how to set a RPTV for watching B&W movies? They often
have a purply colour cast that's difficult to adjust. Would dedicating
an unused mode (vivid say) and setting the colour down to zero work (I
have my doubts since white is just the intense superposition of the 3
colour guns)? (yes I will try it, just wondering what others have
tried)....thanks for any suggestions or pointers to articles or online
references!

Buy a copy of Digital Video Essentials and calibrate your tv.

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