I figured I would share with you what I have come up with in regards to my 65VT50 settings and calibration. I am by no means a professional calibrator but have been calibrating my own displays for about 4 years now. This display from a calibration stand point is challenging to say the least…compared to calibrating my Pioneer KRP-600M! I ran D-Nice’s break in slides for 100 hours and watched mixed content for another 100 hours before my first calibration attempt. It took me 8 sessions until I came up with results that I found worked for me.
Thanks to Turbe I downloaded the new
ControlCal software, which by the way is awesome and I couldn't see in a million years calibrating this display without it!
In all of my sessions I tested using APL small, big, and regular windows on both the AVSHD709 disc and GCD disc. I ended up going with the small APL windows on the AVSHD709 disc burned to a bluray. To my eyes this gave me an overall great viewing experience, since calibrating with the plasma's ABL in mind seems impossible! My gear I used to calibrate is a freshly profiled Display3 Pro I just got back from Tom Huffman, Chromapure software, my Oppo BDP-93 set source direct/4:4:4 connected directly to my display, The AVSHD709 burned to BD, and ControlCal software. I did things a little different compared to normal ISF Day/Night calibrations. In ISF Day I set the gamma 2.2 and for ISF Night I set gamma 2.4 but kept the FTL the same on both profiles. I like having the choice to switch between different gammas then FTL and with the gamma set to 2.2 for day works perfectly for my setup. One side note(I found this through testing)…Since 96hz gives you a lower mll remember when calibrating if you copy settings over to another input that is 60hz your brightness and gamma will need to be readjusted. I also found one other oddity…My meter can read an mll down to .001 and my ISF night reads .002 but my ISF day consistently read .001! I’m not complaining, just weird. Here are my settings for both ISF Day and ISF Night: (In My reports the before reading for ISF Day is the THX Bright Room Preset and ISF Night is THX Cinema)
ADMIN EDIT: You can use ControlCAL G/VT30 Edition v2 to load these settings to a VT50 using the attached ControlCAL Settings Files below.
Picture mode - ISF Night
Contrast 92
Brightness 56
Color 50
Tint 0
Sharpness 25
Color temp Warm2
CATS: Off
Pro Settings:
Color Space Normal
W/B high R -5
W/B high G 0
W/B high B 9
W/B low R 6
W/B low G 0
W/B low B 0
W/B detail adjustment
Input signal
10% Stimulus
R -23
G 0
B 1
20% Stimulus
R 0
G 0
B 2
30% Stimulus
R 1
G 0
B 0
40% Stimulus
R 0
G 0
B 0
50% Stimulus
R 2
G 0
B 3
60% Stimulus
R 0
G 0
B -1
70% Stimulus
R -1
G 0
B -1
80% Stimulus
R -1
G 0
B 0
90% Stimulus
R -2
G 0
B -4
100% Stimulus
R -2
G 0
B -5
Red hue -4
Green hue 21
Blue hue 0
Red saturation -3
Green saturation 33
Blue saturation 4
Red luminance -5
Green luminance -3
Blue luminance -6
Yellow hue 5
Cyan hue -3
Magenta hue 3
Yellow saturation 1
Cyan saturation -2
Magenta saturation 0
Yellow luminance 1
Cyan luminance 1
Magenta luminance 0
Black extension - 0
Gamma adjustment - 2.4
Panel Brightness = Mid
Contour emphasis - Off
AGC - 0
Gamma detail adjustment
Input signal level
10 Stimulus Gain 0
20 Stimulus Gain 11
30 Stimulus Gain 8
40 Stimulus Gain 7
50 Stimulus Gain 0
60 Stimulus Gain 6
70 Stimulus Gain 4
80 Stimulus Gain 0
90 Stimulus Gain 0
100 Stimulus Gain 0
Motion smoother - Off
1080p pure direct - On
Black level - Light
24P Direct in: 96HZ
Picture mode ISF Day
Contrast 93
Brightness 54
Color 50
Tint 0
Sharpness 25
Color temp Warm2
CATS Off
Pro Settings:
Color Space Normal
W/B high R -6
W/B high G 0
W/B high B 8
W/B low R 6
W/B low G 0
W/B low B 0
W/B detail adjustment
Input signal
10% Stimulus
R -10
G 0
B 9
20% Stimulus
R 2
G 0
B 2
30% Stimulus
R 2
G 0
B 1
40% Stimulus
R 2
G 0
B 1
50% Stimulus
R 2
G 0
B 1
60% Stimulus
R 2
G 0
B 0
70% Stimulus
R 0
G 0
B -1
80% Stimulus
R 0
G 0
B 2
90% Stimulus
R -1
G 0
B -2
100% Stimulus
R 0
G 0
B 4
Red hue -4
Green hue 21
Blue hue 0
Red saturation 2
Green saturation 38
Blue saturation 4
Red luminance -6
Green luminance -4
Blue luminance -7
Yellow hue 5
Cyan hue 0
Magenta hue 2
Yellow saturation 0
Cyan saturation -2
Magenta saturation 0
Yellow luminance 1
Cyan luminance 3
Magenta luminance 0
Black extension - 0
Gamma adjustment - 2.2
Panel Brightness = Mid
Contour emphasis - Off
AGC - 0
Gamma detail adjustment
Input signal level
10 Stimulus Gain -13
20 Stimulus Gain 0
30 Stimulus Gain 0
40 Stimulus Gain 2
50 Stimulus Gain 4
60 Stimulus Gain 7
70 Stimulus Gain 3
80 Stimulus Gain 1
90 Stimulus Gain 2
100 Stimulus Gain 0
Motion smoother - Off
1080p pure direct - On
Black level - Light
24P Direct in - 96HZ
Panasonic TC-P65VT50 ISFccc Settings Calibration Report and ControlCAL Settings File
Linear Mode
