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[daddycool]

Hi,
Great dummys guide on calibration, if it wasn't for that I wouldn't even own a calibrator

I spent a couple of hours calibrating my new TV last night, it's a Panasonic 42ET5B.
I'm using an i1d2 and colourHCFR, with the AVSHD709 test disc (windows).

This is what I did...
Turned all the extra settings off;
Set the picture modes to Cinema and Warm
Set the contrast on the 100% white to around 35ftL;
Set the brightness using basic reference test 1 (the image with the flashing black bars and reference black at 16 or 17);
Adjusted greyscale at 80 and 30 with white balance.

I ran the greyscale measure and my graphs were awful, despite most of the x and y readings being 0.313 and 0.329 +/- upto 0.003 (IRE 0-20% still a bit off).

So I adjusted the gamma in the tv menu from 2.2 to 1.8 and ran greyscale measurement again. The results according to the graphs were pretty good (the averages at least). I've attached the colourHCFR file.

But, the picture is very bright and washed out. I was in a dark room, so I'm wondering if just need to turn CATS on (I'm at work at the moment).

I'm sure it's the low gamma that's washing out- does that mean I have the wrong contrast or brightness set?

I'm a tiny bit confused on how I can get good greyscale readings but have such a washed out picture?

Thanks

[D6500Ken]