Color Temperature, High or Low?

[chico76]

My TV menu features an option for color temperature; low (yellow-ish) and high (blue-ish). The "theater" preset in the menu seems to prefer low, while I myself prefer high. Is one necessarily better than the other? Does ambient light make any difference?

My new display is a 27'' Flat Screen. I am running component video.

Thanks!

[brian]

There's DVDs out there that can help you calibrate and determine accurate colors on your set. Avia manufactures such a disc. But if you're not all that concerned about accuracy, I don't believe any of the options is neccesarily better than the other, it's all about your preference.

[I 8 Piglet]

I agree with Brian. I think we put too much emphasis on getting the picture "perfect" when we should really stop calabrating and tweaking when we are happy with the way the picture looks. As for warm/ cool one has more blue, like you said, and the other has more red. If you tv has the option of fine tuning each of the three colors, than by all means go out an get a hold of AVIA and its three lens and tweak away.

[Iguana Man]

I agree with the above comments....another thing to consider is to check your brightness and contrast settings. More times than not, TV's are preset by the manufacturer with these settings far above the 50% mark......you may find lowering them makes a better picture for you. Play around with them and see what looks best for you!

[RedBaronF2001]

Typically, you want to choose the "low" setting as this gets it closer to the NTSC D65 mark.

[chico76]

Typically, you want to choose the "low" setting as this gets it closer to the NTSC D65 mark.

I'm sorry, but what is that? I'm a complete newbie here, sorry.

[RedBaronF2001]

Originally Posted by chico76

I'm sorry, but what is that? I'm a complete newbie here, sorry.

To quote Michael TLV (ISF Guru):

"The easiest reason to describe why D6500 is as follows:

When a film or program is transferred to DVD or broadcast from a studio to your set, the people like the Program Director, Film Director, Director of Photography, etc. watch the results of their work on Television Monitors that have been calibrated to D6500K. Through these monitors, they make all the colour correction decisions on the images that are displayed. So in the end, if you want to see an image that is as close as possible to what these people saw in the studio when they transferred the program ... then you need to have your TV calibrated to D6500K as well.

This is not meant to be real life, it is television. If the director wanted you to see an image that was tinted Purple, then your D6500K television provides the exact shade of purple that they wanted you to see. It's a director's intent issue. Not too dissimilar to watching films in widescreen versus pan & scan.

Hopefully, this provides some clarity on the issue of D6500K."

source >> Why D6500K?

[chico76]

Thanks for the help. Both of them looked good, but certain movies seem to look better with High while others look better with Low. I'll probably stick to Low for the most part, but maybe I'll play it by ear.