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    I can't think where I stumbled across this now - but thought I'd share as some may be interested. I thought my set-up was pretty near to the optimum using the 'REC709' setting on the projector. I was right, but the out of the box settings didn't account for any ambient light (perhaps) the particular nature of the screen being used.

    The THX Tune-up app (iOS and Android) features the familiar tests and adjustments found on many THX Optimizer DVDs, but it performs the clever trick of using the phone's camera and screen as the colour filter to get the contrast and tint adjustments spot on. The small adjustments I've made seem to have just snapped everything into a sweet-spot that, previously, I had just missed. Very happy bunny, especially as the app is free and I'm too tight to pay for professional calibration. I've certainly got better results than I ever have with the THX Optimizer DVDs.

    I used Air Play mirroring with my Apple TV, but it works with an HDMI cable too. If you use HDMI, you can also do 5.1/multichannel sound tests which I think are the usual channel assignment and phase tests.

    Of course, I'm now watching a movie with the Christmas tree lights on, which buggers up the contrast as you might expect (and causes one speaker to fling a shadow on the screen). Think I'll go switch 'em off and enjoy the film.

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    I tried that app but only sound came through to tv screen. The pics etc were on tablet. Maybe im just dumb lol
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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    I tried that app but only sound came through to tv screen. The pics etc were on tablet. Maybe im just dumb lol
    With mine (Apple) I had instructions on the phone screen, but the patterns and photographs came up on the big screen. To do this I had to turn on 'Air Play Mirroring' on the phone. (I haven't got a Lightning to HDMI adapter yet.) Is your Chromecast a video model, or an audio only one? Maybe an MHL-HDMI cable would work (although you could probably buy a Spears & Munsil calibration disc for a similar amount of money).

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    Marantz UD7007 SACD/Blu-ray/DVD-V/DVD-A
    Toshiba BDX1200 Blu-ray player (Zone A & Region 1)
    Audiolab 8200AP pre-amp/processor
    Power amp: Arcam P7
    B&W 804S stereo (bi-amped), HTM4S centre, CDMSNT surrounds (5.0)
    Sennheiser HD 700 headphones
    Panasonic PT-AT6000 projector

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    i used airplay too. wonder if I forgot summat like screen mirroring?.. i will have another go
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
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    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


    ***SMILE, BE HAPPY***

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