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Improve Your Display Calibration Expertise - Here are 7 great links
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No matter if you’re a seasoned veteran, rookie, or just starting video display installation and calibration services, you can improve your knowledge and techniques. Sencore provides resources to help you realize the full potential from your Sencore test instruments and to improve your skills. It is all about making you and your business more successful. Here are some links to some excellent resources.
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Projector Positioning - Converging Colors on CRT Video Projectors
Proper placement of a front projector in reference to the screen to achieve the desired picture size requires some planning and calculation. Alignment of the 3 cathode ray tubes of the video projector so that the red, green and blue pictures merge on the screen can be tedious and often frustrating. Here is a great link offering some help on understanding these issues, along with a good universal step-by-step color convergence procedure for front projectors.
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www.cinemasource.com/articles/calib_video_proj.pdf
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Setting User Controls
Today’s high performance displays are more often misadjusted than properly adjusted. Even the slightest misadjustment of the display’s user controls can cause the picture quality to be significantly less than it could be. Here is a good procedure on testing and properly setting user controls.
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Brightness (black level) Sharpness Contrast/Picture (white level) Color (chroma saturation) Tint (chroma hue)
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Using the VP300 Multimedia Video Generator to Adjust a Display’s User Controls |
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Color Calibration Step-by Step Example
Perhaps you’re not as experienced in the science of color calibration as you would like and are thinking it would be nice if someone would show you how to do it. Well, this is as close as you can get without being there. Check out this step-by-step example of color calibrating a Mitsubishi rear projector.
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Source for Service Menu Entry Codes
Going on a calibration and need to get into the displays service menu but don’t have the manufacturer’s service/alignment manual? Sencore has started a database listing the service entry codes of many manufacturers and models. To check out an example of the data available at this site, log in as “Guest” using the password “Guest”. This login is limited to three times. |
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Color Temperature Calibration Library
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Positioning the Color Sensor When Color Calibrating Front Projectors
There has been much discussion about how to position the color sensor when color calibrating front projectors. Do you hold it towards the projector or at an angle to get projector light reflected from the screen. What about the room’s ambient light? Here are the answers. |
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Calibrating a Front Projector with the CP5000 All-Display Color Analyzer
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A Professional Color Calibration Report – It’s Important
Yes, it is paper work, but a professional color calibration report is often the single most important thing you do in communicating your efforts and results to the customer. If you’re saying it is too difficult to write down all the numbers, I agree. That’s why we have computers and automation. See for yourself how easy a report can be. |
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www.sencore.com/newsletter/Mar03/CPReport.html
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About CRTs - How They Effect Calibration
One of the great mysteries that many installers and calibrators have is how the performance of the CRTs limits the calibration success - especially the ability to color balance at each light level from black to white. Understanding CRTs can help you relate color calibration difficulties to the CRTs. Here’s a great reference piece on how CRTs operate. SencoreNews185-CR7000.pdf
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