HDTV Calibration for Gaming
Friday, March 19th, 2010 - 9:40am
The HD calibration videos (DVE, Avia) try to match your TV with the standardized film patterns, right?
Are there standardized patterns that game developers use?
I'm not convinced that a TV calibrated for a bluray movie experience would provide optimal color for games.
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I don't know about any standardized test patterns for games.
Calibration for blu-ray has always worked fine for me in all ways except one: it's too dark in a lot of games. If I calibrate for blu-ray and then play a game with a lot of dark scenes I end up hunched forward, squinting, and trying to figure out what I'm looking at fairly often. Typically I just turn up the brightness a few notches before I play a game. Only real change I've ever found necessary.
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I do the same, except I use the game settings to adjust the brightness, not the TV. Many games these days (Bioshock and Mass Effect 2 come to mind as some recent examples) include some sort of test pattern with their brightness adjustment so you can get it just right. If there is no pattern I just crank the brightness a couple of notches. That is usually sufficient.
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Same here with the darkness. I find that I have to crank the in-game brightness up a few notches past what th game calls "ideal" to see what is going on; this seems to provide a better result than adjusting the TV's brightness, and I don't have to remember to knock it back down to watch something else.
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Jonman wrote:
What I usually do is pop into my TV's preset torch mode for games, and then switch to what Sony calls "Pro" mode for movies.
Elewis17 wrote:
Also the same for darkness. If a game's default brightness setting is in the middle, I usually bump it up to 3/4s or 4/5s of the way. Rare games without brightness settings (e.g. Bad Company 1) I just suffer through. I don't bother with the TV's brightness controls since I've originally set them.
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I use the game setting first too if it's there.
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contrast on my panny plasma is always set at 85, and I use the "standard" setting for games with brightness at 65, and the "cinema" setting I have the brightness at 51.
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