The Best Sharpness settings for projectors and TV

by Home Theatre Engineering

Turn Sharpness DOWN using a test pattern to get the most accuarte result without artifacts


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Setting up your TV or Projector? Use these starter pack test patterns: from Diversified Video Solutions

Each one includes super accurate industry standard test patterns that you can absolutely trust that include:

• Title (This stream includes pertinent information of the test patterns characteristics)
• Black Clipping
• White Clipping
• Color Bars
• Color Clipping
• Sharpness & Overscan

Standard Dynamic Range Patterns

High Dynamic Range Patterns

Complete set of (Professional or Serious Enthuisiast) Video Test Pattern discs/downloads:

[nedkulic]

Fantastic video... Tutorial..
Thank you!

[Zickcermacity]

I'm a self-employed calibrator for hire, and I'm glad you're pointing out that 'factory center' is not always the best setting for the Peaking "sharpness" control. Of course, neither is cranked up, lol!

Where we differ is in our technique - I learned, from discs such as Avia and Digital Video Essentials - to lower sharpness all the way, put up a gray/black pattern similar to yours, and raise the sharpness UP from its MINIMUM until you see ringing start to appear.

Then, back off a value or two from that point, and essentially, the sharpness control is 'flat' - it is neither adding to nor subtracting from the display image. Write that value down somewhere, or photograph all the calibrated picture and grayscale settings for future reference, or in the case someone futzes with them...!


Good to see we both care about quality home video display reproduction! Cheers!

[masvas]

Very cool. I've just learned something new from your video. Thank you so much.

[wretchedworm]

thanks for the test patterns. Can you explain how do you use all of them? There's files like the Dolby Vision Mode Test etc which I have no clue of how to use.

[snehalamol]

I have downloaded ur zipped charts. Can u plz make a video about how to use these charts to adjust screen well??

[joedavies]

This is great!! Could you do a video about getting all the other settings perfect? (Color, brightness, contrast)

[m_thebox]

But what if the seating position is not optimal (far from the standards/recommendations) ? Shall sharpness be increased for the "perceived sharpness" to compensate the distance? Even though small artifacting is created? So this pattern and tips still apply for the scenario I have mentioned or the sofa should be moved first? Lol Thanks!

[papachunks]

The way I used this pattern to adjust my HDTV's sharpness is by quickly turning my sharpness up and down repeatedly while taking it down. I've found that doing this is much more noticeable to the eye than just analyzing the image for haloing. If it still flickers from point A (down) to B (up), then B is still too sharp. You just have to keep turning the sharpness down each step while checking for flickering until you reach a point where you can't see a bright flicker anymore. I hope that makes sense.

[HomeTheatreEngineering]

Sorry about the strobing its a mismatch between the projector frame rate and the camera frame rate. If we get time we will reshoot this video but we wanted to get it up on line...

[jlebuym]

where to get this pic?I want to test my tv

[MicPrime]

On my Panasonic ST60 is hard to set the sharpness settings because there is no white line spot even from zero to 50.I use Tru cinema mode for day, and custom for night, both are diffirent in terms of sharpness.

[reptilexcq]

No wonder why my projector white color tend to wash it because I sharping it? I never thought about removing the white by unsharping it.

[bryanp]

Hi boys, the frustrating thing about sharpness, is that to have it essentially right, also means that it is still a little soft...it's always a pain, because you get incredible detail when it's up with the white flaring artefacts, but when it's set to " PERFECT " you have softness, which is incredibly annoying...

[CaseTheCorvetteMan]

And this is why those settings shouldn't be randomly adjusted without using test patterns!!

[SuperCartoonist]

You are using a DLP projector.
Your camera shutter speed is using an incorrect speed so there's color banding.

[Stoynov]

always keep sharpness 0 for good graphics during play games