Comments on: 3 Blunders That Can Ruin Your Home Theater Experience http://geekwithfamily.com/2006/08/25/home-theater/3-blunders-that-can-ruin-your-home-theater-experience/ Home Theater, Anime, Geek Gadgets for the whole family Fri, 18 May 2012 06:45:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: geek http://geekwithfamily.com/2006/08/25/home-theater/3-blunders-that-can-ruin-your-home-theater-experience/#comment-1709 geek Fri, 22 Sep 2006 00:23:10 +0000 http://geekwithfamily.com/2006/08/25/home-theater/3-blunders-that-can-ruin-your-home-theater-experience/#comment-1709 You can really improve the image from an Apple laptop by going through its Display Color Calibration wizard. While connected to the projector click past the initial steps of the wizard and set Gamma and Color Temp both to native. Finish the wizard and it will create a new display profile for the projector, the brightness and contrast and gamma should be much improved. To adjust the controls on the projector you could display a gray gradient in an image editing program and make sure it was smooth and not peaking on whites or plugging up blacks. If you're going to use the Mac Book's DVD player you can always step through a calibration DVD like Avia. Hope this helps. You can really improve the image from an Apple laptop by going through its Display Color Calibration wizard. While connected to the projector click past the initial steps of the wizard and set Gamma and Color Temp both to native. Finish the wizard and it will create a new display profile for the projector, the brightness and contrast and gamma should be much improved.

To adjust the controls on the projector you could display a gray gradient in an image editing program and make sure it was smooth and not peaking on whites or plugging up blacks.

If you’re going to use the Mac Book’s DVD player you can always step through a calibration DVD like Avia.

Hope this helps.

]]> By: Bruce http://geekwithfamily.com/2006/08/25/home-theater/3-blunders-that-can-ruin-your-home-theater-experience/#comment-1699 Bruce Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:28:51 +0000 http://geekwithfamily.com/2006/08/25/home-theater/3-blunders-that-can-ruin-your-home-theater-experience/#comment-1699 For older projectors that essentially only have brightness/contrast controls, is there anything in particular to look out for when calibrating via the source device (eg. a Macbook Pro's VGA display preferences)? Cheers! For older projectors that essentially only have brightness/contrast controls, is there anything in particular to look out for when calibrating via the source device (eg. a Macbook Pro’s VGA display preferences)?

Cheers!

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