Pioneer Elite PRO-110FD Plasma TV Measurements

Measurements

Settings
Keep in mind that unit-to-unit variations, viewing environment, source, and screen (in the case of front projectors) might render the settings I used less than optimum on some samples of this display. If you try these settings, I strongly recommend that you do so as a starting point, following up with one of the several display-setup DVDs on the market to make certain that the basic picture settings are correct for your situation. Confirmation of the grayscale settings requires a full professional calibration.

Picture Menu
AV Selection Pure
Contrast 42
Brightness +1
Color +11
Tint R8
Sharpness –15

Pro Adjust
Pure Cinema

  • Film Mode Off (progressive) or Smooth (interlaced)
  • Text Optimization Off
Intelligent Mode Off
Picture Detail
  • DRE Picture Off
  • Black Level Off
  • ACL Off
  • Enhancer Mode 1
  • Gamma 2
Color Detail
  • Color Temp Manual
    • R High -3
    • G High 0
    • B High 0
    • R Low 0
    • G Low 0
    • B Low 0
  • CTI Off
  • Color Management
    • R 0
    • Y +2
    • G 0
    • C 0
    • B 0
    • M 0
  • Color Space 2
Noise Reduction
  • 3DNR Mid
  • Field NR Mid
  • Block NR Off
  • Mosquito NR On
Others
  • 3DYC N/A for HDMI & component
  • I-P Mode 2

Contrast & Resolution

Peak white level

  • Full screen 16.3fL
  • 100 IRE window 43.6fL
Black level 0.004fL
Peak contrast ratio 10,900:1
Overscan
  • 480i/p 3% (Full)
  • 720p 1.5% (Full)
  • 1080i/p 0% (Dot by Dot)
Horizontal bandwidth at 1080i
  • HDMI/DVI 37.1MHz
  • Component 37.1MHz

The high-frequency burst has some noise via component; HDMI was clean.

Grayscale & Color Temperature

With the A/V mode set to Pure and the color temperature set to Low, the grayscale tended toward red, and it was somewhat non-linear.

After calibration, the grayscale was much closer to D65.

Pre-calibration, the color temperature was slightly low throughout the brightness range.

After calibration, the color temp was much closer to 6500K.

As expected from the pre-cal grayscale and color-temp measurements, red was dominant in the color tracking.

Calibration brought the red channel in line with green and blue.

Color Accuracy

With the Color Space control set to 1, green and red were oversaturated.

Setting Color Space to 2 resulted in nearly perfect color points, though yellow was still slightly off.

Tweaking the yellow control in the Color Management section brought the yellow point in line with its target.

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