TEST SCREEN
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Test Screen
Test Screen
When you activate the Test Screen via the OSD
you can activate a still image to test all settings
and the video performance of your TV. With the
vertical color bars you can test the following:
■
proper color intensity setting on your TV,
■
the proper color of each bar, showing if the
proper video standard is turned on: the colors
should be (left to right): black, white, yellow,
cyan (turquoise), green, magenta (purple), red,
blue, black.
■
proper color transition, seen as sharp
separation of the bars, S-Video will be better
than Video, RGB best of all.
■
the performance of the color filter in your TV
(with ”Video” signals), bar edges should show
no vertical crawling dots. Here S-Video and
RGB formats usually give no problems.
With the grey scale and the black/white fields
below the color bars the brightness and contrast
of your screen can be adjusted optimally, see
chapter ”TV Picture Adjustment” below.
TV Picture Adjustment with
Test Screen
These adjustments may be done now, but you
can also make them after setup has been
finalized.
Brightness adjustment:
1. Turn down the color control on your TV until
the color bars are visible in black and white.
2. Adjust the contrast to the lowest level where
you still can see all bars within the grey scale
in the test picture separately and clearly.
3. Adjust the Brightness so that the bars in the
grey scale are all visible. The bar furtherst to
the left has to be as black as possible rather
than grey but the next aside must clearly be
differable. All the bars in the grey scale have to
be gradually and evenly changing from black
to whiter, going from left to right.
Contrast adjustment:
1. Adjust the contrast on your TV until you see a
bright white bar in the right low corner of the
screen and a deep dark black bar at the left.
The optimal contrast setting will depend from
your preference and the surrounding light in
the TV room.
2. If the brightness of the white bar will no more
increase while turning up the contrast or when
the borders of the white ”harman/kardon”
text letters on top will bloom (overlight) into
the black areas, what drasticly will decrease
the sharpness of the script, then the Contrast
has been turned up too much. Reduce the
contrast until these effects will disappear and
the video still looks realistic.
3. If you are watching TV with a usual surround-
ing daylight, adjust the Contrast so that a
normal video picture has about the same
looking as the surroundings in your room. By
that way the eye is relazed when watching the
TV picture. This contrast setting may be
reduced when the surrounding light is
dimmed, usually improving the sharpness of a
video a lot thereby.
4. The grey scale in the middle line needs to have
the same clear difference between each bar as
before the contrast adjustment. If not, go back
to the brightness adjustment and repeat
step 3 and then the contrast adjustments,
making only minor adjustments each time for
optimisation.
Color adjustment.
1. When the Brightness and the Contrast are set
optimally, turn up the color control to the level
of your perference. Adjust to the level where
the colors look strong but still natural, not
overdone. If the color level is too high,
depending from the TV used some of the bars
will seem wider or the color intensity will not
increase while the control is turned up. Then
the color control must be reduced again. At
the end you should test the color intensity also
with a video, e.g. pictures of natural faces,
flowers, fruit and vegetables and other well
known natural articles of our life most usefull
for an optimal setting of the color intensity.
2. If your TV has a Tint option (with most
European TVs this is available or effective only
with NTSC signals, not with PAL), use the large
white bar below the Greyscale to tweak the
warmth of the picture. Every viewer has a
difference in preference as how the glow of
the picture should be. Some prefer a little
colder picture, some a warmer glow. The Tint
function on your TV and the white bar can be
used to control this. Adjust the Tint to the level
where you feel the white color has the tone
you prefer.
Sharpness Adjustment
Contrary to intuition, the picture will appear
sharper and clearer with the sharpness, or Edges,
setting backed off from the maximum setting.
Reduce the sharpness setting on your television,
and the Edges setting on the HS 200 video
adjustments menu if necessary, to minimize the
appearance of any white lines between the bars
in the gray scale portion of the test screen.
Color Bars
Grey Scale
100%
Black/White
fields
Convergence and Edge Focus
The crosshatch pattern that surrounds the test
screen may be used to evaluate edge focus and
convergence in front- or rear-projection video
displays. However, the controls used to adjust
these parameters are often not user-accessible.
In any event, these adjustments are extremely
complex, and require proper training and
experience to avoid worsening the situation.
Therefore, it is recommended that if you are
unable to improve the picture using the
available controls, contact the video display
manufacturer’s authorized service representative
for assistance.
When all desired setup and configuration entries
have been made, use the
KL
Navigation
Buttons
9
until “Done” is highlighted at the
bottom of the Video Adjustments submenu.
Press the
Enter Button
6
to select it to
return to the on-screen menu system. Then,
press the
Setup Button
8
to remove the
menu displays from the screen. The unit will
return to normal operation and you are ready to
enjoy the finest in DVD or CD playback!
Picture Calibration Using the supplied Test
Disc
When doing the calibration first insert the disc in
the slot loader
6
. The disc will start reading,
and a main menu will appear on the screen.
Select the test pattern required using the
K
or
L
Buttons
9
. Once the pattern appears on
the screen, press the
Pause Button
C
to
make sure the test pattern will stay long enough
on the screen to make the adjustments.
With the requested test pattern on the screen
press the
Mode Button
repeatedly until
the TV Button turns red. This will change the
remote control to the TV mode, without chang-
ing the system's source to TV. Next, press the
Setup Button
8
, and use the
KLN M
Buttons
9
to select any of the calibration
settings to be changed and follow the directions
mentioned previously to find the right settings.
When the first calibration setting has been cor-
rectly made, press the
Enter Button
6
to go
back to the Setup Menu. Use the
KL
Buttons
9
to select the next calibration setting.
Once all calibration settings for the specific
video input have been confirmed, press the
Mode Button
once so that the DVD
Button turns red. Should additional calibration
settings be made using the supplied disc, these
can be selected by pressing the Disc
Menu
Button
B
and select the next calibration set-
ting to be changed. Follow the directions above
to make all other calibration settings.
Once all calibration settings have been made,
press the
Mode Button
until the DVD
Button turns red to change the remote control
back to controlling the DVD receiver.
