pugheaven
Active Member
WARNING: In My Opinion, do NOT use firmware v2.301 or it will break HDR. Use v2.302 which is perfect!
Well, as there isn't one and the 320 is quite a bit different to the 300 I believe in PQ, just thought I'd start this up. As this PJ has been out for a while I'm sure that there's alot of people with this one as it's the "budget" one over the 520.
Be interesting to hear peoples views now that this PJ has had further updates with HDR etc (which I rate, see below).
So, to start, this is my setup at the moment for both 4k and I use a seperate setup for Full HD. Using a Panny 700 for the 4k and a seperate Sony for Bluray. Once the cinema room is complete late this year, it'll be going down there and will be pro calibrated, but for now in the living room using 100" this is the current settings. I've used mainly my eye and then when I think it looks pretty, I've then used the test patterns off R.Masciola's Advanced Calibration Disc... haven't got the knowledge for amending much else or equipment, however this will do me for now. Have to say though, out the box this is superb setup, normally the standard settings are so far out it's untrue.
In summary, I'm astounded. Been using this for 3 months (had to send last one back due to fauly in HDR), hence the low hours on this one. in 4k, it's sensational as to be expected assuming you have good 4k discs. I've used the following upto now; Sing, Assasins Creed, Point Break, Passengers (superb colour and PQ), The Magnificent Seven (lovely and lush BUT problems with sky in certain scenes under HDR), Everest (Astounding), (Hacksaw Ridge, sensational in most areas), (Trolls used this to control the colours), GhostBusters 1/2 and new one, Life Of Pie, The Martian (tons of detail not so sure on the use of colour!), The Maz Runner (quite surprised with this how nice it looked clean yet filmic), Kingsmen (very very detailed), Miss Perrigrin (have to admit, this being reference disc quality) and of course The Revernant. Messed around with all sorts of settings using this lot... and the only one that was appalling was Suicide Squad... colours all over the place and couldn't use this to calibrate at all.
As for calibrating Bluray, used Casino Royale as always, great use of colour and close ups for focus and Elysium once again for same reasons.
In Elysium I have to admit, that if someone had said this was 4k I'd have believed them, same with Thin red Line... on Bluray, both abosolute stunners and shows that there's plenty of life in "old" 1080. However, I WOULD have the PJ upscale using reality creation which blows the upscaling in both my bluray player and the UHD player by some way, as in I could do the pepsi challenge.
Right now, even though this cost me a fortune, I couldn't be anymore happy with it.
Software Version: 2.302
Lamp Timer: 31 Hours
4k UHD:
Reality Creation: On
Cinema Black Pro: High
MotionFlow: Off
Contrast (HDR): 90
Brightness: 46
Colour: 50
Hue: 50
Colour Temp: D75
Sharpness: 30
Colour Correction: Off
Clear White: Off
HDR: On
Colour Space: BT.2020
Full HD:
Reality Creation: On
Cinema Black Pro: Low
MotionFlow: True Cinema
Contrast: 87
Brightness: 41
Colour: 44
Hue: 50
Colour Temp: D75
Sharpness: 30
NR: Off
MPEG NR: Off
Smooth Graduation: Low
Colour Correction: Off
Clear White: Low
x.v.Colour: On
Colour Space: BT.709
Input Lag Reduction: Off
All other settings are at their default values. Only done manual calibration using my own eyes and some patterns and the picture is superb.
HDR OFF
HDR ON
HDR OFF
HDR ON
Well, as there isn't one and the 320 is quite a bit different to the 300 I believe in PQ, just thought I'd start this up. As this PJ has been out for a while I'm sure that there's alot of people with this one as it's the "budget" one over the 520.
Be interesting to hear peoples views now that this PJ has had further updates with HDR etc (which I rate, see below).
So, to start, this is my setup at the moment for both 4k and I use a seperate setup for Full HD. Using a Panny 700 for the 4k and a seperate Sony for Bluray. Once the cinema room is complete late this year, it'll be going down there and will be pro calibrated, but for now in the living room using 100" this is the current settings. I've used mainly my eye and then when I think it looks pretty, I've then used the test patterns off R.Masciola's Advanced Calibration Disc... haven't got the knowledge for amending much else or equipment, however this will do me for now. Have to say though, out the box this is superb setup, normally the standard settings are so far out it's untrue.
In summary, I'm astounded. Been using this for 3 months (had to send last one back due to fauly in HDR), hence the low hours on this one. in 4k, it's sensational as to be expected assuming you have good 4k discs. I've used the following upto now; Sing, Assasins Creed, Point Break, Passengers (superb colour and PQ), The Magnificent Seven (lovely and lush BUT problems with sky in certain scenes under HDR), Everest (Astounding), (Hacksaw Ridge, sensational in most areas), (Trolls used this to control the colours), GhostBusters 1/2 and new one, Life Of Pie, The Martian (tons of detail not so sure on the use of colour!), The Maz Runner (quite surprised with this how nice it looked clean yet filmic), Kingsmen (very very detailed), Miss Perrigrin (have to admit, this being reference disc quality) and of course The Revernant. Messed around with all sorts of settings using this lot... and the only one that was appalling was Suicide Squad... colours all over the place and couldn't use this to calibrate at all.
As for calibrating Bluray, used Casino Royale as always, great use of colour and close ups for focus and Elysium once again for same reasons.
In Elysium I have to admit, that if someone had said this was 4k I'd have believed them, same with Thin red Line... on Bluray, both abosolute stunners and shows that there's plenty of life in "old" 1080. However, I WOULD have the PJ upscale using reality creation which blows the upscaling in both my bluray player and the UHD player by some way, as in I could do the pepsi challenge.
Right now, even though this cost me a fortune, I couldn't be anymore happy with it.
Software Version: 2.302
Lamp Timer: 31 Hours
4k UHD:
Reality Creation: On
Cinema Black Pro: High
MotionFlow: Off
Contrast (HDR): 90
Brightness: 46
Colour: 50
Hue: 50
Colour Temp: D75
Sharpness: 30
Colour Correction: Off
Clear White: Off
HDR: On
Colour Space: BT.2020
Full HD:
Reality Creation: On
Cinema Black Pro: Low
MotionFlow: True Cinema
Contrast: 87
Brightness: 41
Colour: 44
Hue: 50
Colour Temp: D75
Sharpness: 30
NR: Off
MPEG NR: Off
Smooth Graduation: Low
Colour Correction: Off
Clear White: Low
x.v.Colour: On
Colour Space: BT.709
Input Lag Reduction: Off
All other settings are at their default values. Only done manual calibration using my own eyes and some patterns and the picture is superb.
- HDR for me, gives a noticable improvement to the depth of the screen, borderline 3D effect. So for this alone, HDR wins over SDR. Rather than looking at a flat detailed imagine, I'm now seeing a 3D detailed image... it's hard to tell but from the first 2 pictures below, hope you guys can see what I mean... look at the snow below DeCaprio... there's a depth to the shading. More of a textured look to it same with other areas.
- HDR does lose some detail in dark areas of the screen (see middle tree in first two pictures!). Whether this is a limiation of this PJ or I may need some more calibration we will find out in due course. However, in other lighter areas i.e. snow or land or sky, you seem to get a load more detail than you ever get with SDR. Although theres plus and minus's for both, I will put up with the loss of dark area detail for more clarity in the lighter parts of the screen. I suppose the PJ is counterbalancing overall picture to allow the bright "HDR Pings". However in a very dark film, it may be that you lose too much data, time will tell and maybe this needs the professional calibration!
- HDR colours are by far and away more vibrant and natural. Also, you do get that "lens flare" effect where certain scenes just pop with brightness... it's a really odd sensation at first but once you've seen it, SDR really just looks very flat tbh.
- Where I need to improve HDR is in the reds. I've found on Planet Earth 2 that during the volcano section that the lava is almost luminous and too saturated... too red yet in every other scene it's spot on. It's a kind of unatural look to the red is what I'm saying and that needs to be ironed out for me.
HDR OFF
HDR ON
HDR OFF
HDR ON
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