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The Augustine Theater Experience
Sharp XV-Z9000U SMART Calibration
Results (Filter)
Final Settings Using Regular Menu
To see my original settings, read Step 4.
Service menu, DLP section. All factory defaults except gain settings.
| VOLTAGE |
1 |
| CW-INDEX |
127 |
| R-BRIGHT |
128 |
| G-BRIGHT |
128 |
| B-BRIGHT |
128 |
| R-GAIN |
150 |
| G-GAIN |
150 |
| B-GAIN |
150 |
Regular menu settings. Everything but Bright and Sharp changed.
Contrast -21
Bright -1
Color -3
Tint +2
Sharp -15
Red -23
Blue -25
CLR Temp 0
Gamma: Standard
Theater Mode: Bright
Contrast Ratio (according to the SMART spreadsheet)
After initial detector calibration run:
| Green |
498.90 : 1 |
| Overall |
500.62 : 1 |
With the filter and new settings:
| Green |
749.90 : 1 |
50.31% improvement |
| Overall |
740.30 : 1 |
47.88% improvement |
Gamma Tracking
With the filter and new settings, my projector is tracking 2.3 gamma.
Settings Using Service Menu
As mentioned in Step 8, I calibrated the filtered
projector two ways: using the regular menu controls to make adjustments
and using the service menu controls. Both resulted in almost the exact
same measurements. However, the calibration using the regular menu
controls resulted in a higher Green level (lower resistance
measurements and could be seen on the Color Intensity graph). This would output
a brighter picture with a higher Green contrast ratio. So I stuck with the regular menu
adjustment settings (above).
Please note that the differences between the two calibrations were slight. So
slight that if I were to do the calibrations again, the service menu
adjustments might win out. In the end, I stuck with the regular menu
adjustments because they will be easier to adjust in the future. For example, if
I try a different filter.
For those interested, here are my settings for the service menu calibration.
Looking at these settings, it's easy to see that with the filter in place,
Green became the limiting color.
| VOLTAGE |
1 |
| CW-INDEX |
127 |
| R-BRIGHT |
128 |
| G-BRIGHT |
128 |
| B-BRIGHT |
128 |
| R-GAIN |
142 |
| G-GAIN |
150 |
| B-GAIN |
141 |
Contrast -21
Bright -1
Color -3
Tint +2
Sharp -15
Red +1
Blue -2
CLR Temp 0
Gamma: Standard
Theater Mode: Bright
| Green |
746.30 : 1 |
49.59% improvement |
| Overall |
740.84 : 1 |
47.98% improvement |
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