Sony KDL-52EX700 Calibration and Testing
Overview Review Specifications Calibration |
Calibration: The EX700 series has a strict governor on brightness. This prevents the average user from hurting their picture quality by poorly calibrating their TV. The EX700 calibrated fairly easily to D6500K. Gamma tracking was excellent and one of the best tested.
Calibration Settings | |
Picture Mode | Custom |
Backlight | 4 |
Picture | 96 |
Brightness | 52 |
Color | 49 |
Hue | G4 |
Color Temp | Warm 2 |
Sharpness | MIN |
MotionFlow | Standard |
Cinemotion | OFF |
Advanced Settings | |
Gamma | 0 |
White Balance | |
R-Gain | 0 |
G-Gain | -16 |
B-Gain | -7 |
R-Bias | -6 |
G-Bias | 0 |
B-Bias | -4 |
Black Level/Contrast/Contrast Ratio: Black levels were stout and measured .026 to .029 on the IRE scale giving the TV a high post calibration contrast ratio of 1570:1. The black levels carried through to scenes from both HD and 480i content. As mentioned below, side angle viewing will diminish contrast appearance.
HQV Video Processor Testing
With 480i Input
Jaggies 1: Poor result. Lots of jaggies around horizontal axies
Jaggies 2: Avg to Poor in 2 out of 3 bars
Jaggies Flag Motion Test: Good
Film Detail Test Race Car/Stadium Seating: Poor result, "Swimmy" effect. Moire' pattern
Film based Pulldown Cadence tests (applicable to DVDs)
Cadence 2-2 30fps: Poor
Cadence 3-2 24fps: Avg. to Poor
Cadence 2-2-2-4: Jittery, Avg. to Poor
Cadence 2-3-3-2: Avg. to Poor
Mixed 3:2 Film with Added Video Titles: Good
With 1080p Input
Jaggies 1: Jaggies evident around horizontal
Jaggies 2: Jaggies evident around horizontal
Video Resolution Loss Test: Excellent
Film Resolution Loss Test: Poor flickering effect in 4 out of 5 boxes
HD Background: Slight noise around foreground images. Somewhat hazy.
Stadium Seating Test with Moire: No moire' pattern but judder panning side to side
Overview Review Specifications Calibration |