Larsanna

You'd be a pompous ass to do it without permission.

Anyone touching my setup without me knowing it, faces instant bitchslapping or worse!!

mhanlen1

Only if they have soap opera mode enabled. I have to change it because it bugs the shit of me.

TomOpus

How would you feel if someone was at your house and liked the soap opera look and changed YOUR tv without permission.

It's pretty arrogant to force others to have the same opinion as yourself.

Alan Smithee

Not when it's the RIGHT opinion

arminius

Fascist.

Spiky

If you don't know, how do you slap?
There really is only one way to set it correctly, that isn't opinion. Shows and crappy channels have enough craziness that you shouldn't introduce it yourself. I would bet that anyone setting some crazy settings doesn't actually like them for every show. It's going to conflict strangely with CSI Miami or The Matrix or something.

mhanlen1

I'd love it, thanks!

I'm almost certain that there's a tounge-in-cheek tone to this thread, so I'd wager to bet that all the responses shouldn't be taken entirely seriously. ESPECIALLY when the OP implies that there's a WRONG way. And by-the-way I know that you can have it professionally calibrated to the RIGHT specs.

TomOpus

The issue isn't if something is adjusted properly. If you show someone a calibrated set and they say "I don't like the way it looks", that is their opinion.

Spiky

I think you have forgotten the OP question.

But for discussion sake...that probably means it is their opinion of the show. A display should be set properly for its own internal issues, and the room. If all displays were calibrated thusly, then they'd all look close to the same (depending on the quality of the set). Everything else is on the video authors.

Shannon Nutt

The only time I've adjusted someone's screen is when they had an HDTV but still had the setting to standard def. Even then, I mentioned it and asked if I could update it. I never mention the color, brightness, tint, etc...as some people's preferences are different (if wrong!).

Lastblade

I don't bother, not my house, not my tv, not my problem. I gave a spare HDMI cable for my SIL's boyfriend's PS3 since he is too lazy to buy one. At least he appreciated that.

Ash Ketchum

I showed this thread to my nephew, whose home theater setup is quite impressive and who spent a significant amount of time setting it up properly. Here's what he said:

Alan Smithee

How do you set an HDTV to standard def? I've tried on mine, but just can't figure out how to do it. I can set my Blu-Ray and HD-DVD players to output in standard def if I want though.

Dan

To everyone who says they'd willfully change it to the "right" settings without permission/discussion, I urge you to come to my house and fix my projector's settings. I've had it for a year, and still can't seem to get it "just right." The projector is great... but I know my settings are "off" I just don't know how to make them better. I've tried a couple calibration screens from different discs, but it still doesn't feel right.

I guess I should just pay a professional, but my wife thinks paying someone $400 to fiddle with some settings is overkill. I know that it's more than that... but she doesn't.

gcribbs

Actually I am sure that there are cases where someone's vision is such that the settings for them might look better if it was different than how you perceived it as correct.

I am not sure it is really true that there is only one real answer when you factor in how a person actually sees that result. Of course assuming everyone is a robot with perfect vision then your statement would be true.

Alan Smithee

Ha- I forgot cable still has analog channels- and if someone has cable (or satellite), I KNOW they don't care about picture quality, or the value of money either! On HD stations on my TV, you can still put it into stretch mode, so it crops the picture to 4x3 then stretches that out- pure genius! (Probably for those shows that still have black side bars! Those are baaad, but constant station logos are A-OK! Nice that those are in a 4x3 safe area too so they don't get cut off!)

Spiky

IDK, the channels here have subverted everything so badly with subchannels that I think D* might actually give me a better picture than antenna, esp if they get an earlier feed of the main channel. Our NBC affiliate is atrocious. Every bit of fast movement onscreen is turned into 2" pixel blocks on my screen. Football, like last night, is horrible.

But I quit paying for D*, so not sure right now.

Iron_Giant

I have asked many, if not all of my friends that have an HDTV/BR setup.

Amazing how many have the HDTV/BR setup for 480i, using the wrong cables, sound set wrong...

They have let me adjust a few things and thank me afterwards.

I would never touch anything unless I ask.

Alan Smithee

Broadcast channels on dish or cable will be at least as compressed, if not more so, than they are over the air- they will never be less compressed. Not that it matters, as there's little to nothing worth watching on them anyways.

B.A.

RichC2

I hate motion compensation or whatever it's called on 120/240hz tvs, having everything look like a coked up mexican soap is obnoxious, and just complain about it like a little bitch until they let me change it.