experience with HP Dreamcolor side by side with calibrated display?

[Nat Jencks]

Just got an HP Dreamcolor, and putting it side by side with a calibrated panasonic 11 series plasma it has a noticeably green tint in the highlights.

I'm using the HP Advanced Profiling Solution and their customized puck to calibrate. I've been in touch with HP to verify the calibration procedure. Perhaps either my display or calibration puck are bad. I don't have much faith in the calibration puck since it is an i1 with modified firmware.

Anyone have experience with this display that has been able to put it side by side with a known calibrated display and compare? What were your experiences?

Thanks in advance!

best-
-Nat

 

[John Tissavary]

Just got an HP Dreamcolor, and putting it side by side with a calibrated panasonic 11 series plasma it has a noticeably green tint in the highlights.

I'm using the HP Advanced Profiling Solution and their customized puck to calibrate. I've been in touch with HP to verify the calibration procedure. Perhaps either my display or calibration puck are bad. I don't have much faith in the calibration puck since it is an i1 with modified firmware.

Anyone have experience with this display that has been able to put it side by side with a known calibrated display and compare? What were your experiences?

Thanks in advance!

best-
-Nat

I would recommend blowing off the built in dreamcolor calibration routine and going with color management like Cinespace - it'll give you a better idea of what's going on with your display, as well a generate a LUT that will 'normalize' the display to a target (like your calibrated Panasonic).

I don't think the x-rite puck is that big of an issue, but naturally there are better probes out there. Ironically, highlights are where the i1 work best, it's in the shadows where you'll get the least accurate readings. Which brings me to...

You're almost always going to have some variation in highlights with different panels as a result of panel technology and the human brain.

Panels (as well as other display tech) 'spike' specific wavelengths (different per panel), and each person has a particular sensitivity (or lack thereof) to spikes. You may see a green highlight, and I may not... I may see white's with a magenta tinge, and the other guy in the suite doesn't, etc.

You can also call in someone with a PR-655 or whatever probe to do the calibration for you. This won't be with the HP software, but who cares, right?