What causes Banding and how do you get rid of it?

[TheCrow]

Hi,

I "calibrated" my Pioneer 50MXE1 using SpyderTV and the colorimeter007 spreadsheet a while ago and I am now noticing banding on gradients.

What causes banding?

How do I get rid of it?

Thanks for any help

Paul

[Gary Lightfoot]

I'm not familiar with direct view sets, but I think banding is often caused by a lower bitrate in the image. I think that sometimes it can be caused by reducing the range of RGB so that there is less range for the image to produced in, so you get noticable jumps from one colour to the next where you should be getting smooth gradiants. Are you sure it didn't exist before the calibration?

Can you put the Pio back to defaults and see if the images you get the banding in go away?

Gary