Pro Calibrations In Melbourne

[Chesty]

As title suggests, having now clocked up around 100 or so hours on my Eposn TW2000, I want to get calibrated properly.

Any one know who does this in Melbourne?

[ArthurDent]

As title suggests, having now clocked up around 100 or so hours on my Eposn TW2000, I want to get calibrated properly.

Any one know who does this in Melbourne?

You could contact Arron at Avical via..

http://www.avicalaustralia.com.au/

Or you could buy an Eye-One probe, download the free HCFR software and test DVD ISO(?) from...

http://www.homecinema-fr.com/

Edit: Sorry for those who have trouble with French...

http://www.homecinema-fr.com/colorimetre/index_en.php

read this...

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10457

and calibrate the pj yourself.

Edited June 25, 2008 by Ken Tripp

[norpus]

As title suggests, having now clocked up around 100 or so hours on my Eposn TW2000, I want to get calibrated properly.

Any one know who does this in Melbourne?

I use Aaron from Avical

(He'll be doing a TW2000 for my friend in August)

Edited June 26, 2008 by norpus

[Alfred Smee]

According to one of those articles in the links provided, a lamp based display may require calibration every 200-300 hours. Does anyone get their projectors calibrated that often? Now I may have missed something, but wouldn't that make calibrating only once a pointless exercise?

[JoshH]

Calibrating only once is a pointless exercise for projectors and plasma and LCD's - given the passage of time.

All phosphurs, lamps, LCD panels etc. fade with time - so recalibration is reccomended - or more accurately required. Lamp based projectors drop off more quickly due to their fast burn times, so need calibration more often.

I re-calibrate my clients projectors annually at a bare minimum - and 6 monthly if they are getting heavy use. Plasma and LCD etc. can go much longer between calibrations. But - it is environmentally influenced as well. In other words - if you get wildly different ambient light situations because you move the room the screen is in recalibration is reccomended.

Now all of this is akin to keeping a highly tuned race car at its peak performance - in other words, I calibrate my clients projectors so often and their plasmas usually every 24 months to keep them looking and performing their best and in top 'tune'.

I recalibrate my own projector no less than every 200 hours and will change the globe at around 1200 hours [not the manufacturers 2000 hours] - this keeps it in top performance and always looking its best. I will always change customers projector globes 20% before the manufacturer says it is required. Typically that last 20% of lamp life is pretty nasty and dull and best avoided. Yes - you can still use it, but its like a car out of tune.

As someone who makes money out of calibrations this all probably sounds a bit like a sales speal - I dont mean it that way. Its down to the individual how important it is to keep their display in tip top tune - and getting someone in to do it is not an inexpensive exercise - so most end users wont bother more than once. And because fade is gradual the eye becomes accustomed to the poorer performance and is thus more accepting of it than if it were like flipping a light switch. But - once recalibrated the performance increase is usally considerable.

Edited June 26, 2008 by JoshH

[RosePetal]

Calibrating only once is a pointless exercise for projectors and plasma and LCD's - given the passage of time.

All phosphurs, lamps, LCD panels etc. fade with time - so recalibration is reccomended - or more accurately required. Lamp based projectors drop off more quickly due to their fast burn times, so need calibration more often.

I re-calibrate my clients projectors annually at a bare minimum - and 6 monthly if they are getting heavy use. Plasma and LCD etc. can go much longer between calibrations. But - it is environmentally influenced as well. In other words - if you get wildly different ambient light situations because you move the room the screen is in recalibration is reccomended.

Now all of this is akin to keeping a highly tuned race car at its peak performance - in other words, I calibrate my clients projectors so often and their plasmas usually every 24 months to keep them looking and performing their best and in top 'tune'.

I recalibrate my own projector no less than every 200 hours and will change the globe at around 1200 hours [not the manufacturers 2000 hours] - this keeps it in top performance and always looking its best. I will always change customers projector globes 20% before the manufacturer says it is required. Typically that last 20% of lamp life is pretty nasty and dull and best avoided. Yes - you can still use it, but its like a car out of tune.

As someone who makes money out of calibrations this all probably sounds a bit like a sales speal - I dont mean it that way. Its down to the individual how important it is to keep their display in tip top tune - and getting someone in to do it is not an inexpensive exercise - so most end users wont bother more than once. And because fade is gradual the eye becomes accustomed to the poorer performance and is thus more accepting of it than if it were like flipping a light switch. But - once recalibrated the performance increase is usally considerable.

I too thought that frequent re-calibration might be a needless expense. Thanks for the insight JoshH. Much appreciated.

Edited June 26, 2008 by RosePetal