Projector Calibration ?

[Shadytree]

Monring all, I've just fitted my new Epson TW6000W and the plethora of settings has me very confused.

This model can send HD wirelessly inside the room from my AMP and have also added a HDMI cable directly.
Oddly the wireless picture quality is slightly sharper and deeper than the HDMI?
I'm convinced it should be a settings thing, but have no clue what I should be tweaking.

Where should I start? Is it worth getting it expertly calibrated or is there an easy solution to doing this?

[OldSkoolRS]

It could be that the HDMI input has a different setting than the wireless one. The setting I'm thinking of is called 'HDMI enhanced' or 'HDMI normal' but this is what JVC call it on their projectors, I'm not familiar with Epsons. It doesn't matter which setting you use, but it will effect the settings you end up with once calibrated. It will effect the brightness and contrast settings in particular and one HDMI setting will look more washed out than the other (or one will look too dark/crushed blacks possibly initially giving the impression of better blacks).

You can go down the whole sensor, software and test patterns route, but it can become a bit like chasing your tail: You aim for better and better response charts and forget about why you bought it in the first place. I know as I've got all the gear for this including a Pro version of the software that would cost £500 plus at current prices. Thesedays I just sit and enjoy a film on it, knowing that it probably has drifted (as ALL projectors, even LEDs ones will) but it still gives a satisfying picture three years on, depsite being 3-4 generations old and worth maybe a quarter of what I paid for it (JVC HD350).

I'd recommend that you just use a good setup disc and make sure that the basic brightness and contrast settings are correct. You can't adjust RGB settings by eye or colour gamut and please don't bother copying other owner's settings as they won't be accurate due to your lamp, electronics, environment and sources being different (and drifting as I mentioned earlier).

The best disc I've found is the free AVS HD709 disc that you burn onto a blank DVD disc but in AVC format, so your BluRay player sees it as if it's a BluRay (well many players do especially Sony ones).

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=94...

I'm not using my projector much at the moment now the light nights are coming...time to be out in the car with the roof down instead.

[Shadytree]

Good advise there, thanks. Will give the disk a try.