Pioneer Elite PRO-111FD 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: 38
Brightness: 0
Color: +9
Tint: G4
Sharpness: –15

Pro Adjust
Pure Cinema

• Film Mode: Off (progressive) or Advance (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: -6
• G High: -2
• B High: 0
• R Low: 0
• G Low: +1
• B Low: +1
• CTI: Off
• Color Management
• R: 0
• Y: 0
• 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: 18.5fL
• 100 IRE window: 37.8fL

Black level: 0.001fL
Peak contrast ratio: 37,800:1
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

When switching from a white field or window to a black field, the black level dropped from its nominal value to literally 0 after about 10 seconds, even with all dynamic functions disabled. This did not seem to affect real-world material, but it was odd.

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

Grayscale & Color Temperature

With the AV Mode set to Pure and the color temperature set to Mid-Low, the grayscale tended toward blue.

After calibration, the grayscale was much closer to D65, and all points were within the human "just noticeable difference," or JND, so getting them any closer would not be perceived as different.

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

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

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

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

Color Accuracy

Setting the AV Mode to Pure and Color Space to 2 resulted in nearly perfect color points.