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In Reply to: is this the right place?-- Q. about changing factory preset Contrast on Toshiba CRT posted by DunninLA on August 20, 2006 at 13:47:25:
The disc you refer to is "Digital Video Essentials" and it's worth buying a copy and playing with your CRT's picture settings. The settings that most TVs allow users to adjust are brightness, contrast, sharpness and colour, and sometimes hue as well. I don't know your screen so I can't say whether or not you'll get an improvement but it's probable that you will. It still may not be enough of an improvement to satisfy you—I'm told some TVs simply don't let you get all that good a picture. I used Digital Video Essentials with my old NEC CRT and the end result was much improved but I couldn't get the colour setting quite perfect, though that apparently is common.Even if using the disc doesn't fix your problem, it won't be money wasted. You can take the disc with you when you next go shopping for a TV and use it to help ensure that you buy a screen that can give a good picture, plus it can help you keep that picture quality over time if there's any drift in the TV's settings.
David Aiken
Follow Ups:
thanks David.Does this Digital Video Essentials allow me to change the internally programmed Contrast setting... that is... differently from the contrast adjustment accessed from the remote control?
Larry Dunn
The disc has test patterns and instructions for how you use your normal adjustment controls, whether they be on the TV itself, the remote, or DVD player settings, to adjust the picture to get the best results with the pattern. The disc does not reset anything itself—you have to do that.The disc does include test patterns that a service person could use if they have access to your set's internal programming but once again it's the service person who has to make the changes. There are a lot more patterns on the disc than a normal user like you and I can use.
As DWPC said, the THX Optimiser which is an extra on many THX mastered movie DVDs also contains a set of test patterns that a normal user can use but once again, the user makes the adjustments manually using the appropriate controls. The one missing item with the THX Optimiser is the necessary blue filter for viewing the colour test patterns but it gives instructions on obtaining one. Digital Video Essentials comes with a filter.
I know of no disc which will automatically make the adjustments for you, and I doubt such a disc exists or could even exist. All 4 of the discs that I know of contain test patterns only, and all require the user to make the adjustments. They aren't difficult adjustments to make.
David Aiken
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