Bestbuy offering TV ISF calibration.

[Rich-n-Texas]

Festus,

The best resource for ISF calibration services is at the AVS forums:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forum...ysprune=&f=139

I'd trust this forum before any BB store... Or CC... or more to the point, B&M stores all around the world, ya know?

[Smokey]

Festus,

The best resource for ISF calibration services is at the AVS forums:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forum...ysprune=&f=139

I think most of independent calibrator charge about $400 and one have wait for them to come to your area, or buy them transportation ticked if they have to go out of their way to be in your area. I agree though that they probably do a better job.

Smokester, they use disc's for calibration, not things like a sencore color generator, analyzer, or snell and wilcox hot plates(exceptionally high quality color and pattern generator and extremely accurate analyer) to calibrate.

Do they access the TV's service menu at all?? I imagine with ISF certification, they are obligated to calibrate TV to 6500k standard no matter how elementary equipment they use.

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

I think most of independent calibrator charge about $400 and one have wait for them to come to your area, or buy them transportation ticked if they have to go out of their way to be in your area. I agree though that they probably do a better job.

Actually the price is a little closer to $500, but I have found the pricing in my area all over the map.

Do they access the TV's service menu at all?? I imagine with ISF certification, they are obligated to calibrate TV to 6500k standard no matter how elementary equipment they use.

The certification you get from ISF is a little less rigorous than certfification from CEDIA or THX. ISF covers the VERY basic, especially at this price. This I know for a fact because I have been CEDIA certified, and am still THX certified. Their ability to accurately calibrate is equivalent to the quality of the equipment they use to generate and analyze signals. At the price they are charging it is not likely(IMO) that they are going to have the equipment to do so, or that the person doing the calibration will have the know how to do it over a broad based amount of sets on the market and in the field.

[Smokey]

At the price they are charging it is not likely(IMO) that they are going to have the equipment to do so, or that the person doing the calibration will have the know how to do it over a broad based amount of sets on the market and in the field.

Hopefully they won’t send a kid to do a man’s job.

On BB web site, it said that it takes approximately two hours to do calibration which also include speaker/HT set up and tidy up everything. I imagine with that time frame, they won’t have time to set up sophisticated calibration and color measuring equipment, and do a run through TV’s menu.