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Elaine Benes · Joined: 25 Apr 2006 Posts: 1416

Mark_A_W · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:10 am Post subject:

Whatever you do, write your original settings down before fiddling!

"ANSI Contrast" is just a wanky way of saying "washout", but the line does do that.

If you need a colourimeter I have a HCFR, I can mail it to you if you like.

cinema mad · Joined: 25 Nov 2009 Posts: 219

Ok thanks Axatax and Mark thanks for the offer Mark,

I use CalMan with i1pro to set my Gain Bias/RGB color balance makes it A lot easyer...

Cheers....

ecrabb · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:14 am Post subject:

Yep, that's exactly what I did... Who knows, might have learned from a post by you, Axatax...

I didn't really care that much about the line - Once I figured out the raster/image size deal on the G70, it was well off my 16:9 screen and just on the black wall behind the screen - hardly distracting - you could barely see it. It wasn't very bright, either... I'm sure it may have had an impact on measured ANSI contrast, but visually, I didn't see that it had much of any effect at all... If you dialed brightness down so you had a black screen in the dark room, the AKB line didn't make it any less black... It's just one little line... Washout is a gross overstatement.

But, the problem I was having was brightness pulsing. It would do it some scenes and not others... It probably only happened 5-10% of the time, and only at 1080p, but it was REALLY obnoxious. Turning off ABG fixed it right up. I'm running 1080p, and a happy camper, save for the slight geometry issue.

I'm glad it's gone, though. It's a stupid design for it to be on all the time.

SC

Mark_A_W · Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 4:22 am Post subject:

Maybe the line is less intense than my old 12xx, or a NEC (when enabled)?

It's been a while since I've seen a G70. On a NEC it would drive me bananas.

cinema mad · Joined: 25 Nov 2009 Posts: 219

Quote ecrabb"
But, the problem I was having was brightness pulsing. It would do it some scenes and not others... It probably only happened 5-10% of the time, and only at 1080p, but it was REALLY obnoxious. Turning off ABG fixed it right up. I'm running 1080p, and a happy camper, save for the slight geometry issue."

Hi ecrabb,
I have had the same issue as you on the rare occasion on some blu-rays, with the pulsing in some of the darker scenes, so I changed my Clamp setting in the G70 but didd'nt fix it..

I am running the older Moome IFB- HD/Gamma card inputting YcBcR 4:2:2 10bit.. I was hoping (just ordered) new V2 Full-HD card may of fixed this issue but I guess not, I need to turn off ABG...

Cheers..