I’ve had my LG 55B7 nearly 2-and-a-half years now, and it’s got to the point where I’m getting quite tired of all the banding and compression anomalies that are revealed due to the less-than-stellar default white balance settings in the HDR picture mode. Adjusting the brightness isn’t a simple fix and would induce more problems, and trying to fine-tune white balance by eye would be silly.
More recently I’ve been thinking more seriously about finally getting a calibration. Since I can never find any TV calibrators locally where I am, and given the current situation I’m not prepared to have people travel and come into my home, I’m more inclined to purchase appropriate equipment and learn to calibrate the TV myself.
I’ve been starting to do look into various colorimeters/spectrometers but it’s confusing where to start and finding out how capable/accurate certain models are. The SDR greyscale looks mainly ok (when I set my 4K player to output SDR none of the aforementioned banding or compression is present) but it could still do with some fine-tuning. The HDR settings/WB are quite rusty and definitely need to be corrected.
Where do I start in learning how to go about this? Which consumer colorimeter models would be suitable for measuring values for an OLED in both SDR and HDR spaces? Is it also possible to measure/calibrate Dolby Vision using it? How do I go about finding the relevant software/testing patterns?
This is mainly new to me and trawling through product pages of similar-looking models hasn’t been that helpful so far, so any guidance/advice would be great!
More recently I’ve been thinking more seriously about finally getting a calibration. Since I can never find any TV calibrators locally where I am, and given the current situation I’m not prepared to have people travel and come into my home, I’m more inclined to purchase appropriate equipment and learn to calibrate the TV myself.
I’ve been starting to do look into various colorimeters/spectrometers but it’s confusing where to start and finding out how capable/accurate certain models are. The SDR greyscale looks mainly ok (when I set my 4K player to output SDR none of the aforementioned banding or compression is present) but it could still do with some fine-tuning. The HDR settings/WB are quite rusty and definitely need to be corrected.
Where do I start in learning how to go about this? Which consumer colorimeter models would be suitable for measuring values for an OLED in both SDR and HDR spaces? Is it also possible to measure/calibrate Dolby Vision using it? How do I go about finding the relevant software/testing patterns?
This is mainly new to me and trawling through product pages of similar-looking models hasn’t been that helpful so far, so any guidance/advice would be great!