Adjusting Color Levels, Contrast, etc. on STX-HD100?

[AzJazz]

I tried searching through the menus on the STX-HD100 and on SageTV, but I can't find anything.

The colors are oversaturated on my monitor for the Component Video outputs, and I'd like to adjust them to more normal levels.

Where can these be adjusted?

Thanks!

AzJazz

[stanger89]

Have you adjusted the monitor's inputs? My HD100 seemed to be about right on with it's component output.

[AzJazz]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Have you adjusted the monitor's inputs? My HD100 seemed to be about right on with it's component output.

Hi, stanger89!

I can try, but I'm not sure how adjustable my computer monitor is on the component inputs. Right now, I am still setting up my Sage system (no TV connected yet). I have the component outputs of the STX-HD100 connected to the same monitor that is used on my SageTV Server PC. There is a significant difference between watching via my PC (natural skin tones/levels) vs. the STX-HD100 ("sunburned"/oversaturated).

In case I can't make all the necessary adjustments my monitor (or, future HD TV), is there a way to adjust the levels on the STX-HD100?

[stanger89]

I don't think so.

[AzJazz]

Thanks anyways, stanger! I'll figure something out, if I have to.

If all else fails, I can at least adjust the individual amplitudes of the red, green, and blue component signals with a simple rheostat (hopefully, if the box I've used in the past is still available at Radio Shack).

AzJazz

[jrog]

I was just thinking the other day that it would be really cool to have color bar patterns, greyscale patterns, and all that to be able to calibrate your display very quickly and easily. All it would take is some good color pattern images at 1080i/p, 720i/p, etc, and then use the picture viewer to load them and calibrate away.

Anybody have any images that can be used to calibrate displays?

[Yooper]

The real problem is that the SD tuners need to be calibrated. If you play a file from the server the tuners are not involved - just the TV.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by jrog

I was just thinking the other day that it would be really cool to have color bar patterns, greyscale patterns, and all that to be able to calibrate your display very quickly and easily. All it would take is some good color pattern images at 1080i/p, 720i/p, etc, and then use the picture viewer to load them and calibrate away.

Anybody have any images that can be used to calibrate displays?

Here ya go:
http://www.w6rz.net/

[electron]

As mentioned in my other post (didn't see this thiread when I was posting), I have the exact same issue with HD xvid videos. They looked perfect on my old HTPC (ATI 9600Pro DVI->HDMI), but on my HD100 (HDMI->HDMI) they defiintely look oversaturated. I can't make adjustments to my TV since it would affect my other inputs, which all look fine.

[stanger89]

Try running the test patterns linked above and see if they come out differently.

[electron]

Well I adjusted my brightness where it is almost ok, but you can still tell that teh signal is too bright (even the SageTV interface shows this). Now my other inputs are really dark, so this isn't an acceptable solution to me. The brightness issue has to be fixed on the HD100 unit.

For what it's worth, the default settings (480i) looked much darker. Once I switched it to 1080i, that's when things got 'bright'.

[cslatt]

Originally Posted by electron

For what it's worth, the default settings (480i) looked much darker. Once I switched it to 1080i, that's when things got 'bright'.

I'm having this exact same experience - it looked great at 480i, but when I switched the extender's video mode to 1080i it immediately got overly bright.

[electron]

Ok, so that's 3 people so far. Guess it's time to figure out what we have in common. What TV do you have (and specs)? How is the video connected? I have a 56" JVC Rear Projection (1080i max res), using a new male-male HDMI cable.

[electron]

Update: I just set it to 720p, and it looks great now (eventho I miss the 1080i resolution, I can see a big difference). So there obviously is an issue with the 1080i mode. I guess I should contact SageTV support?

[stanger89]

You can try, I'm not sure what they can do, all resolutions look the same on mine (HDMI), 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p.

[toricred]

I've noticed the same with 1080i. Both 1080p and 720p look much better on both of my extenders.

[BFisher]

I tried last night - I couldn't see a difference between 1080i and 720p via HDMI to a Samsung RPTV.

[electron]

I submitted a help request, hopefully I can get this resolved, it's pretty bad when the wife notices it :/

[electron]

Has anyone else experienced this issue? I am trying to figure out if it's an extender issue, or TV issue. With the new batch out, I could try to get the unit swapped, but I don't want the downtime.

[Yooper]

I calibrated my TV with a Spyder TV calibrator. This was done using a laptop connected thru the VGA port. The problem was, as someone mentioned earlier, that this did not include the tuner on my video server. What we really need are colorbars broadcast thru the cable system.

I then adjusted the tuner settings to get a picture that I liked.

I think that is the best we can do without a broadcast color bars.