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Marc Sherman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Florin Andrei wrote:
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<pre wrap="">The original Avia is older than dirt. DVE is probably better.
Personally, I prefer Avia II over DVE, but maybe that's just me.
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Well, I can get Avia II for $40 with free shipping on amazon.ca, so I'll
probably just spring for it. Buying the replacement filters would
probably cost close to that much when you include the shipping,
exchange, and border fees.
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<pre wrap="">Honestly, I only calibrated my TV with the PS3 as a DVD player. That was
all, and I just apply the same parameters to all the other inputs on the
TV (cable, SD card reader). Not very scientific, but it seems to work
pretty well.
I do not have a Myth frontend connected to this TV (it's on a computer
in a different room), so I never had to think about calibrating the
frontend per se. But it looks like one day I may have to do that.
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Hrm. That's too bad. Does anyone else following this thread have any
experience here? For me, the biggest problem currently is the
calibration on the pvr500 -- I had to tweak the recording settings a lot
on that to get the recordings looking decent, and they still could be
better.
The feedback delay on making adjustments and waiting for them to show up
in the recorded stream while watching the DVD in "Live TV" mode seems
like it would be a problem.
- Marc</pre>
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I have all my devices hooked into separate inputs on my tv so I can set
contrast/brightness/color individually. <br>
I calibrated my tv component & HDMI 2 using the DVE disc in my xbox
360, and then the HDMI3 (MythTV) input using mythdvd<br>
I then connected my xbox 360 to the pvr-250 input via s-video and
calibrated the recording settings for the PVR-250 (using the G key and
liveTV mode) <br>
I then copied the values to all the channels with a MYSQL command. I
noticed the default contrast & brightness settings clipped the
black & white quite a bit. <br>
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I found a filter for virtualdub called color tools that shows the video
waveform, like a scope. That let me set brightness & contrast. This
filter also had a vectorscope that let me set color and tint, but I
could never get it to match quite right. <br>
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- Richard<br>
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