If contrast looks boosted when you switch to full range, that sounds like you either just crushed your extreme values, or you were previously looking at a washed out image on account of sending limited range to a TV expecting full.
Either way, one of your settings is probably incorrect.
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Calibration is as follows. XONE set to Full Range. TV set to Computer.
Backlight contrast 27.
Colour 37.
Tint: Warm.
Video Contrast: 77.
Brightness: 47
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Tested the Brightness with the Xbox One's built-in calibration tool. It seems to have a weird bug, as
Scott Arm pointed out already. Like him, it works well for me when I set the console to Limited Range.
When I set the console to Full Range, the Brightness calibration of the built in tool doesnt work properly 'cos I can't see the closed eye EXCEPT for a split second! Huh? That split second is what I need though, to set Full Range properly.
In order to calibrate the Video Contrast I use something as simple as a picture from the Ice Age DVD and set the Contrast in a way I can tell the ice from the cracks on the glaciers. :smile2: Super simple, yes, but works amazingly well. :smile:
For Limited Range Brightness was set at 27 instead of 47 -Full Range-, but at 27 it looked too dark on Full Range (curiously enough in TV mode instead of Computer mode, 47 is also the sweet spot for Brightness). That's the only change for me while passing from Full Range to Limited Range.
Those are the only settings I care about for calibration, all post-processing effects are disabled.
Important: For those interested on calibrating Brightness on their TV use this native picture of the Xbox One's built-in calibration from a Digital Foundry article. It is an excellent picture to set your Brightness and comes with the instructions, as you can see.
DF article:
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-xbox-one-hardware-test
I'm not sure what you're talking about.
Most of what makes SD CRTs look good is just phosphors looking good.
The typical video signals that got used by most people (NTSC and such) are extremely low-quality and prone to artifacts.
Interlacing on SD CRTs sort of has the perk where 60fps games can sometimes look almost "480p60" good, though it's not quite there, and 30fps games have horrible combing artifacts (480p30 to a 60Hz VGA monitor looks much cleaner in motion than sending 30fps video to an SD CRT, even if you're using high-quality video signals for both displays).
SD CRTs were in many ways a hindrance to console IQ during the sixth gen
I was talking about the fact that games like Forza looked truly amazing on the original X-box but when I switched to the next generation and bought a HDTV it looked so bad that it almost tainted all the good memories I had about that game.
Sure, at 480i or p on a CRT of the time it looked fine, but on a HDTV and progressive resolution settings you could tell the truth about the graphics of the game.
A friend told me before playing it on the X360: "If you have good memories about Forza, PLEASE don't run it on a Xbox 360 and a HDTV". Right he was...
