Display Calibration

[daaceking]

Hello,

How exactly do you calibrate a display?

I have a HP vs19 monitor and have always had issues with it. the blacks are too dark. i can't see anything. I never have issues with laptops.

under windows 7, i have used microsoft's display calibration tool. the gamma correction sort of helped and using gpu acceleration [dynamic contrast] when watching movies, also helps, but ultimately, i still can't get good results.

under vista, i have tried gamma correction under catalyst control center, but that's impossible. i can get good blacks around 2 but the whites become rediculous. is there anything i can do to sort this out, or is it just a really bad monitor. it's not defective because i have 2. one under 7 and another under vista.

my laptop is really, good. washed colours generally, but good colours under games and in "movie mode" it adjusts brightness and contrast, enables surround sound and gpu acceleration with dynamic contrast gives it a kick. now that's quality msi!

thanks,

[MayImilae]

Sounds like you need a new monitor. If you can't adjust the problems out, then you're pretty much screwed. Your laptop has alot more hope for it though. Try to use the same methods you used for the monitor on that, see if you can boost the saturation some.

[daaceking]

the laptop is running its own display with no calibration at all. so i can't just make changes over to the desktop.

also, i have 2 of the same display. meaning that it is not defective. it's just how it is.

edit. i should point out i don't know how to adjust the monitor. i know about contrast, brightness and generally how gamma correction works, but i don't really know about other things such as saturation. what they are or how to even change them. there are also things like colour temps or something. it's beyond me.

[MayImilae]

Well, what are you using, and what options does it have? I'll explain what I can.

[daaceking]

hp vs19.

contrast

brightness

colours - make of that what you will. it has things like 6500k.

other option, i have no idea if they're even related to display. the reason i say this is because it has built in speakers [not using] and other stuff.

edit - i can change things like gamma via gpu drivers or windows 7's calibration tool but i have never really seen a saturation setting.

[NaturalViolence]

Quote:How exactly do you calibrate a display?

1. Open an image or video in fullscreen
2. Adjust your monitor settings

Is your issue specifically with video playback (since it sounds like you're just adjusting video playback settings) or in general?

Quote:my laptop is really, good. washed colours generally, but good colours under games and in "movie mode" it adjusts brightness and contrast, enables surround sound and gpu acceleration with dynamic contrast gives it a kick. now that's quality msi!

Is "movie mode" a monitor setting or something else?

Quote:colours - make of that what you will. it has things like 6500k.

It's referring to color temperature:

Quote:but good colours under games and in "movie mode" it adjusts brightness and contrast, enables surround sound and gpu acceleration with dynamic contrast gives it a kick. now that's quality msi

Ugh.....please don't tell me you're using virtual surround sound phase shifting on top of dynamic contrast.

Quote: i can get good blacks around 2 but the whites become rediculous.

Sounds like a shitty LCD monitor with bad contrast.

[daaceking]

calibrating everything not just video. doesn't work

it's software related that changes a lot of os settings and hardware settings

cool.

uh.. i dunno. dynamic contrast is gpu related for video playback only. surround sound is thx trustudio pro changing system audio to surround movie mode

yep! any hope?

[NaturalViolence]

Dynamic contrast or dynamic contrast range?

You should always adjust your monitor settings and leave the OS settings alone.

[daaceking]

which ever comes with gpu acceleration ati/nvidia/intel

you do know the issue is the desktop not the laptop right?

[NaturalViolence]

Well it's odd that you would mention them both if the desktop was the only issue.

Dynamic contrast refers to changing the contrast during playback (dynamically). This can be done by the monitor or the video playback software.

Then there is dynamic range (this is what nvidia calls it, I have no idea what AMD calls it and I hate the term since it's very ambiguous). Dynamic range would be 15-235 (limited) or 0-255 (full). Is that what you're talking about? I believe this refers to the luma clip space for YCbCr but I could be wrong.