Proper Calibration

[Outland]

Originally Posted by old_tv_nut

What is the year of manufacture of your set? Tube or solid state? Before a certain point in time (certainly all tube sets), sets had less than 100% DC coupling, which means that on bright scenes, the lowlights would get too dark (blacker than black), and on dark scenes they would get too light (grayish). If it's one of these earlier designs, you are stuck with it.

June 1994. It's obviously all solid state, model CT-20S2S. Here's a photo of the set from someone. Nothing special.

An interesting observation I had was turning brightness all the way down caused the menu text to streak right. Turning it up eliminates that.

Great info about the blue filter. I'll buy a used DVD of Avia with the filter because I can't get this color right. I think the TV might just display colors a little warm or red-heavy.

18-20 on my set is almost black and white. >40 is radiation level topping out at 63, so I'm trying 30s now. What I think is happening is the blues and yellows are great, but the reds are too bright. A plaid red shirt is a good example, it loses fine details. Greens are pretty aggressive too.

Certainly nothing like the precise cool colors of a Trinitron.

I'll take some pictures so you all can see what I mean.