Calibration of a Plasma TV

[Heath]

I just bought a 50" Panasonic Plasma TV and was wondering about calibration. What much does it cost? Is it worth it? Where/Who can do it?

My TV is still in the box and will not be setup till after the 13th.

[Solocam]

Best Buy can do it. I dont know much though. Circuit City can do it as well

[Atfulldraw]

call Star Power -- they do great installs

I use them or Kellum's for all my PITA clients.

[Heath]

I will be checking out Star Power. How much does this cost?

[tookeymonster]

I just bought a 50" Panasonic Plasma TV and was wondering about calibration. What much does it cost? Is it worth it? Where/Who can do it?

My TV is still in the box and will not be setup till after the 13th.

congrats, you just bought the best TV on the market. It shouldnt need any calabration. There are a few settings you can change the view to your likeing. if you bought it from Circit City and you get the protection plan it comes with a special CD and color glases to do it yourself. Im sure you could finde another CD that has the glases.

[AtTheWall]

You're pimpin now Heath - Congrats!

[In-Yo-Grill]

What calibration are you guys talking about? Does the same thing apply to LCD's?

[Pat Miller]

Calibration should be done with a set of SMPTE color bars generated INTO the set.
Then the color and the contrast/brightness is set according to the bars.
If you have a video camera I'd be willing to bet you can get 'color bars' from your camera into your monitor/tv and then find the formula online for setting up your set.
I have the formula somewhere------I have to use it occasionally on film sets. I'll look for it and when I find it I'll PM it to you.
It's not hard at all.

[Pat Miller]

Here's a You Tube download. Color your monitor to the way the BOTTOM lines of color are and the lines of B&W & gray. (Not from the screen one the download but from when you can generate the SMPTE color bars from your video camera----if you have a video camera).......The tone is at -20 db to set your volume at 0 if you're also using an audio meter.
(SMPTE stands for Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and is the standard at which EVERYTHING is broadcast including films. The tone rate is an industry standard also.)
Your camera---if you have one----should output 'bars & tone' for standard color correction done in post/editing.
Hope this helps.
file:///Users/patmiller/Desktop/HD%20Monitor:TV%20Calibration%20And%20Test%20-%20Truveo%20Video%20Search.webarchive

[maglite]

I just got a pioneer 50" 1080p plasma ans the difference between the pre and post calibration is amazing!! Best buy did it for free for me with my purchase. BTW you got the second best plasma on the market I got the best!!!

[In-Yo-Grill]

I asked earlier but didn't get a response...Does the same hold for LCD's as far as calibration goes?

[Randy]

I have a 50" phillips plasma and it asked me all kinds of questions and gave you pictures to choose when I first plugged it in. Also had different sound choices that you could pick for best sound in the room its in. I figured that was calibration enough.

[tookeymonster]

I asked earlier but didn't get a response...Does the same hold for LCD's as far as calibration goes?

Yes

[Heath]

I read that you need to get 100 hours on the TV before you doing the calibration. Anybody heard this? I am still looking for how much it cost to have someone come do it. I read that if you don't know what you are doing you can screw it up bad.

[In-Yo-Grill]

I read that you need to get 100 hours on the TV before you doing the calibration. Anybody heard this? I am still looking for how much it cost to have someone come do it. I read that if you don't know what you are doing you can screw it up bad.

I guess at that point you can always reset it to the factory settings.