Sony VPL-HW50ES Projector Calibration and Settings

Mike's notes:  A number of modes are almost identical when it comes to default grayscale. Reference, Cinema Film 1, TV and User modes all have roughly the same RGB balance that has a lot of green and blue and a deficiency of red (see graphs).  Some use different color spaces that make overall picture look different.  The RGB balance is also consistent across the entire IRE range.  It might be the case that with a different lamp, you could have little need for calibration.  The User mode calibrated extremely well, with a Delta E of less than 1.0 from 20 to 90 IRE, rising above 5 at 100 IRE.  There are some uniformity issues with red tinting along the sides of an all white screen, but it’s not noticeable in normal scenes.

As usual, Sony provides a range of color spaces that tend to make using a CMS unnecessary.  BT.709 is pretty close to the Rec. 709 standard.  Color Space 1, 2 and 3 expand the gamut to varying degrees, with Wide 3 being the largest gamut of the three.

Really nice picture with almost 1000 lumens calibrated and still has decent blacks.  Motion artifacts are pretty noticeable but can be eliminated by turning on MotionFlow.