On Saturday June 27th, and Sunday June 28th 2009 from 7 pm. to 10:00 pm, Value Electronics in Scarsdale, New York will host its annual flat panel HDTV shootout. You can watch it live here
Last year, I tested, measured, and calibrated six of the industry's finest flat panel HDTVs for this event. We concentrated on the most important elements of picture quality to the human eye, measured those components, and compiled data for the consumers that attended the event. These picture elements include Contrast Ratio, Color Saturation (the amount of color in the picture), Colorimetry (overall color accuracy: grayscale, color decoding, and color space accuracy), and Resolution. Like last year, there will be a live pod cast video feed of the event on AVS Forum.
This year, I will be joined by D-Nice of AVS Forum fame, and now a member of TweakTV, and Edward Johnson who is helping coordinate the video streaming. D-Nice and I will be calibrating all of the displays in the room using my Minolta CS200 Chroma meter, and a host of other reference quality test equipment. In addition to the flat panel shootout, there will be front projection demonstrations conducted by Jeff Paiva, Epson's National Training Manager of the Epson flagship home theater projector, the PC7500UB versus the JVC RS-20.
We will be testing, measuring, and calibrating eight flat panel sets using SpectraCAL's CalMAN software to tabulate the results, and creating handout material for those who attend the event. TweakTV will also put the video feed up, and post the results of the shootout on the forum. Please come and check out the event on TweakTV's forum beginning the week of Monday June 29th.
Out in the field we are coming across new brands and models every week.While Panasonic surely is not a new brand, these models are fresh on the market.
The Samsung B series seems to be flying off the shelves.We are receiving many requests for in home calibrations from these panels.Here are the latest suggested settings off of our in home professional calibrations
For your own custom in home calibration service, please fill out the form here Keywords: Samsung LCD, Samsung HDTV, Samsung B Series, Samsung UN46B6000, Samsung UN55B6000, Samsung 6000 series
Professional television calibration takes what we, at TweakTV, are suggesting as a starting point to the highest level of system performance and accuracy. It is essentially a fine tuning of your entire video system by a qualified trained technician with reference level test equipment. What we are providing with the User menu settings for digital cable and/or Satelllite via the HDMI inputs of HDTVs is just a basic start in what we refer to as “System Calibration”. A full professional system calibration includes setting up all the video sources including the cable box and/or satellite receiver, DVD player, and calibrating each input on the TV with a variety of sophisticated TV test equipment.
Your ISF Calibrator just left your home.You were so excited about the improvements he made that you really didn't listen when he explained the calibration report to you.What do you do?Call and ask him to go over it again?Here is a basic overview for one type of calibration report.There are many different types of calibration software, and most of let the calibrator customize their reports.So while this report may not look like the one you have in front of you, it will give you an idea of what you are looking at on yours. Here is another example of what a TweakTV calibration report might look like. This is what you will receive from one of our professional calibrators after they complete your job.
Samsung has clearly taken on the market place. We have received countless requests for in home calibrations, but we have never seen so many Samsungs at one time. Enjoy these settings and feel free to comment on what you see.
The economy must be getting better since our TweakTV professional calibrators are in the field more than ever.
Recently, we came across the new B series from Samsung which is expected to be a popular replacement to the A series. Attached are the suggested settings for the 650 series.
This past week we came across our first Panasonic TH-65VX100. It is a massive panel which performed well. Blacks were strong, but is that it? Is this just a glorified 11 series? Would that be a bad thing? Are Elite owners seeing some final competition? More comments to arrive shortly on behalf of TweakTV.
On Saturday June 27th, and Sunday June 28th 2009 from 7 pm. to 10:00 pm, Value Electronics in Scarsdale, New York will host its annual flat panel HDTV shootout. You can watch it live 
Professional television calibration takes what we, at TweakTV, 
Your ISF Calibrator just left your home.
