Posted by Steve(JazzHunter) on 10/15/05 01:42

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:59:46 GMT, "Joshua Zyber"
<jzyber@mind-NOSPAM-spring.com> wrote:

>"Nomen Nescio" <nobody@dizum.com> wrote in message
>news:68e3ea6dcd849c179b47950acec82fdd@dizum.com...
>> Showtime and the other broadcasters do an excellent job balancing the
>> tonal
>> balance of the motion pictures they present.
>>
>> However, I observe DVDs are most often too contrasty. Sometimes faces
>> are
>> washed out and the shadows go to black. Black is absolutely black and
>> white is absolutely white and the graduations in between are too steep
>> for
>> my taste.
>
>Have you properly calibrated your TV? You should calibrate separately
>for each input source. Your cable/satellite box will likely require
>different default settings than your DVD player. What you describe
>sounds like a classic calibration issue.
>

And many DVD players have settings for contrast, brightness, Gamma,
and Sharpness. My JVC came with a default setting that was as
described above, too contrasty. It was in the "LCD" setting, putting
it to "Normal" restored proper grey values.

... Steve ..

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