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hulkss:
I use the X-Rite EyeOne Display 3 Colorimeter with ChromaPure software in my HTPC to adjust the hardware settings in my display device. http://www.curtpalme.com/ChromaPure_EyeOneDisplay3.shtm

Then I use "basICColor display 5" software to generate an ICC color profile for my HTPC.
http://www.basiccolor.de/basiccolor-display-5-en/

BillyBoyBlue:
For what it's worth... I recently purchased a Panasonic 65 inch 3D "smart tv",  (outstanding picture quality in the plasma version) and in general I'm very happy with it. Calibration using a spectrophotometer is sorry, at best an ify if not near worthless process UNLESS you get a good meter. Sorry, good ones that are accurate cost between $700-$1,000. So retail products like the Spyder are little more than toys in spite what you might of heard in marketing hype. So the caution I'm suggesting is while products like the Spyder might suggest changing your settings and the actual result can be to actually move them further, not closer to specs, not closer. It all depends on the luck of the draw. If the meter is reasonably well precalibrated, hasn't sat on the retailer's shelf for months, been dropped or suffered any number of other shocks, then maybe you might tweak out a bit better picture.

If you think paying a "professional" to do a claimed professional calibration, guess again. Sorry to say this too is often a racket. Some out of work bozo charging you between $200-600 and he might just bring a little three year old Spyder and stumble through the process and also actually take your tv further out of calibration.

I subscribe to the "if it ain't broke, don't try to fix it" club. I wouldn't try to calibrate any tv unless and until it is obvious something is off or you just might make it worse. If you must wait till at least there's a few hundred hours on the set so components have "burned in and stablized.

hulkss:

--- Quote from: BillyBoyBlue on January 17, 2013, 06:04:53 pm ---Calibration using a spectrophotometer is sorry, at best an ify if not near worthless process UNLESS you get a good meter.

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True. Here is a ranking of meters. I own and recommend #9.

From:http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11436

So what's the best meter?

People want lists so here's one! Generally speaking, from worst to best we have:

1. Spyder 1/2/3 (not recommended)
2. EyeOne Display 2/LT
3. EyeOne Display 2/LT PRO
4. X-Rite DTP-94
5. X-Rite DTP-94 PRO
6. X-Rite Chroma 5
7. X-Rite Chroma 5 PRO
8. X-Rite Display 3
9. X-Rite Display 3 PRO
10. X-Rite EyeOne Pro / EyeOne Pro 2 (Not suitable as your one and only meter in most cases)
11. X-Rite Hubble
12. JETI Specbos 1201 (Not suitable as your one and only meter in most cases)
13. JETI Specbos 1211

InflatableMouse:
Thanks guys, appreciate the feedback.

I've read those articles about the spyder too, its not the first time I'm considering calibrating my monitors/TV set. For my monitors I borrowed one from a colleague, the EyeOne if I'm not mistaken.

Having said that, all those reviews and recommendations are somewhat outdated and although I would generally agree a professional 700 dollar device would be better than a 150 dollar homeuse one, I was still curious how the new one, Spyder 4 would be any better than its previous generations.

Either way, I've decided to let go of the idea again, for now.

Sandy B Ridge:

--- Quote from: hulkss on January 16, 2013, 10:07:58 pm ---Then I use "basICColor display 5" software to generate an ICC color profile for my HTPC.
http://www.basiccolor.de/basiccolor-display-5-en/

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I can see ICC profiles working for windows apps like Photoshop great.
What about MadVR? Do they affect what MadVR does with the graphics card? Is there a difference between Exclusive/Overlay/Windowed mode? I didn't think it was as easy as doing an ICC profile and loading it up in windows. I thought MadVR needed a yCMS 3D LUT and ignored the ICC profile?  I'm sure I read something about it on the doom9 forum a few months back. I wonder what happens if you do both an ICC profile and do the yCMS thingy with MadVR??

Too confusing!

SBR

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