G a f f e r
Prominent Member
After using the avia disc, I thought the picture was a tad too "lifeless" but persisted in using the settings it suggested because I thought it was 'meant' to look like that.
My bro just borrowed my avia disc to set his optoma h30 up properly.
Found that the contrast was way off and the whole image looked dull and washed out (too colourless).
So he recalibrated it by eye and found that the cinema setting was the best (ie the built in one).
So I went back to my flat and, sure enough, my AE500 projected a particularly dull and washed out image as before. Increasing the contrast didn't help. Ignoring the AVia entirely, howver, and using "dynamic" for daytime and "Cinema2" or "normal" for night time and the difference was stunning. MUCH more colourful, with flesh tones just right.
Q: Am I not using the AVIA disc properly? I understand that for contrast, you should just about see BOTH dark moving bars against the white background, and for brightness you should see the right black bar but not the left. Can anyone confirm I'm doing it right?
For colour and tint I adjust the levels until the blue squares don't blink any more. But these settings seem too dull........... What's Goin' on?
Should I ditch the AVIA and buy DVE or stick with the preset settings (which at the mo look great)
cheers for any help
My bro just borrowed my avia disc to set his optoma h30 up properly.
Found that the contrast was way off and the whole image looked dull and washed out (too colourless).
So he recalibrated it by eye and found that the cinema setting was the best (ie the built in one).
So I went back to my flat and, sure enough, my AE500 projected a particularly dull and washed out image as before. Increasing the contrast didn't help. Ignoring the AVia entirely, howver, and using "dynamic" for daytime and "Cinema2" or "normal" for night time and the difference was stunning. MUCH more colourful, with flesh tones just right.
Q: Am I not using the AVIA disc properly? I understand that for contrast, you should just about see BOTH dark moving bars against the white background, and for brightness you should see the right black bar but not the left. Can anyone confirm I'm doing it right?
For colour and tint I adjust the levels until the blue squares don't blink any more. But these settings seem too dull........... What's Goin' on?
Should I ditch the AVIA and buy DVE or stick with the preset settings (which at the mo look great)
cheers for any help