G20 Optimal settings
Discussion
If you're mainly using it for movie playback, then THX mode is the one for that.
Switch to Game for gaming, obviously enough, and Cinema for TV, if you really must.
Above all, just use and trust your eyes to tell you how natural it looks - you've been using them all your life, so don't assume they've stopped functioning because a new telly is coming.
When gaming, you might drop the brightness a bit and contrast during the first 100-200 hours of its life, after that, adjust it to how it looks best to you.
Similarly Cinema mode when TV viewing.
There's a few specific set-up BR/DVD out there if you want to use those, and if you've gone into movie recreation in a big way with the audio too, then you might consider getting an ISF-accredited calibrator to do his thing on, but if you read the review over here, there's not a great deal of difference apparently.
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=s...
Switch to Game for gaming, obviously enough, and Cinema for TV, if you really must.
Above all, just use and trust your eyes to tell you how natural it looks - you've been using them all your life, so don't assume they've stopped functioning because a new telly is coming.
When gaming, you might drop the brightness a bit and contrast during the first 100-200 hours of its life, after that, adjust it to how it looks best to you.
Similarly Cinema mode when TV viewing.
There's a few specific set-up BR/DVD out there if you want to use those, and if you've gone into movie recreation in a big way with the audio too, then you might consider getting an ISF-accredited calibrator to do his thing on, but if you read the review over here, there's not a great deal of difference apparently.
http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=s...
As said about the THX mode is pretty good out of the box, however it will do no harm to set it up properly. There are various test discs, but the one I use for full calibrations is free anyway. It has some great 'basic' patterns that you use to set the brightness and contrast controls with prior to the full calibration. Without test equipment this is as far as you can go, but it's a long way there with a set that's close to accurate out of the box.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=94...
Note that you don't need a BluRay burner for this disc as one of the options is to burn in AVCHD format which can be played in HD by many BluRay players and uses a blank DVD disc.
Also, please don't be tempted to copy the RGB settings in reviews as these will vary from set to set and you may end up worse off than when you started...without a meter you won't know which is better. It's a bit like having twin webber carbs rolling road tuned and then having a friend count the number of turns on the adjustment screw and then applying the same setting to his car.
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=94...
Note that you don't need a BluRay burner for this disc as one of the options is to burn in AVCHD format which can be played in HD by many BluRay players and uses a blank DVD disc.
Also, please don't be tempted to copy the RGB settings in reviews as these will vary from set to set and you may end up worse off than when you started...without a meter you won't know which is better. It's a bit like having twin webber carbs rolling road tuned and then having a friend count the number of turns on the adjustment screw and then applying the same setting to his car.
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