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audunth:
Hi,

I'm about to buy a new projector, and I'm going to get it professionally calibrated. If it's calibrated using a standard Blu-ray player (and maybe other reference source he might use) will the picture still be 100% correct when I play it through MC with Red October? Is the output from MC and exact mirror of what's on the Blu-ray disc with no alteration of color balance etc. that can mess up the calibration?

jmone:
I got my 60" Pio professional ISF Calibrated and he did it first from a source generator plugged directly into the screen over HDMI then then from a test disk played of my HTPC drive (and made more adjustments at the PC level to keep it in true).

jmone:
FYI - I'm sure I'm now way out of spec however as:
1) It has been a few years so the TV wil have changed over that time
2) I've made so many chages to GPU's, renderers, drivers etc.....

I did recently purchased my own Colormunki but I've really not invested the time to work it all out!

Trumpetguy:
I just did exactly the same (and I guess you will buy from the same company and have the same guy do the ISF calibration). My subjective opinion is that going from my old to the new projector was really great, and images are really natural and saturated. You would need to ensure 16-235 levels for the entire signal chain (no 0-255 anywhere) to get the grey scale right.

Also, when having a ISF calibration you get most of the way there (90-95%?). The rest must be adjusted for at your house to take into account wall reflections, projection screen performance and such. I would assume that inhouse "errors" would be larger than any colour discrepancy introduced in software. But that is only my assumption, and I would love MC team to enlighten us on the subject.

audunth:
Buying from AVshop and getting the calibration done before I pick it up. I could of course go with the inhouse option, but that's another $350, so I really hope I can setup my HTPC to be as neutral as possible. I asked them to tell the calibrator to call me before he calibrates the projector, so I'm hoping he has some experience with HTPCs too.

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