Datacolour Spyder3 Pro or TV ? at DVinfo.net

Rob O'Day · March 19th, 2009, 01:02 PM

I'm just wondering which product to purchase as I cannot afford to buy much at the moment, so it's one or the other for the time being.
I thought if I bought the Spyder3 TV, that I could still calibrate my computer monitors as well ?

I do HD editing, and the videos are for TV as well as the internet so I need some kind of calibration happening as I'm just guessing at the moment.

Cheers for any help !

David W. Jones · March 20th, 2009, 08:05 AM

Why not just run bars into your production monitor and do a proper setup?
That will save you the expense of buying something you don't need.

Dale Guthormsen · March 20th, 2009, 08:13 AM

David,

putting bars on the screen is easy, but what would be the procedure for setting from them?

David W. Jones · March 21st, 2009, 03:23 PM

Here is a link... - Color Bars

Rob O'Day · March 23rd, 2009, 03:59 PM

It's the brightness/contrast I have problems with, looks fine on my PC monitor but very bright on the TV.

Jonathan Heppner · March 18th, 2010, 05:11 PM

It's going to look different on a computer monitor and a television. Especially a CRT to a flat screen. The way these devices handle color and brightness is different. Most people use a reference monitor alongside their computer monitor and adjust color and brightness according to that. You can calibrate your computer monitor but you're not going to have accurate color still because it does not display the same as a CRT. You can use an LCD reference monitor, but they cost quite a lot. If you don't have a monitor, use a vectorscope and a waveform monitor to help you.

Jonathan Heppner · March 18th, 2010, 05:15 PM

If you have a spyder 3 pro you can buy software to use it on your tv. It is the same device, it just has different software between the tv, pro and elite.

March 19th, 2009, 01:02 PM	#1
Rob O'Day Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Posts: 63	Datacolour Spyder3 Pro or TV ? I'm just wondering which product to purchase as I cannot afford to buy much at the moment, so it's one or the other for the time being. I thought if I bought the Spyder3 TV, that I could still calibrate my computer monitors as well ? I do HD editing, and the videos are for TV as well as the internet so I need some kind of calibration happening as I'm just guessing at the moment. Cheers for any help !

March 20th, 2009, 08:13 AM	#3
Dale Guthormsen Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Saskatchewan Posts: 3,048	David, putting bars on the screen is easy, but what would be the procedure for setting from them? __________________ DATS ALL FOLKS Dale W. Guthormsen

March 18th, 2010, 05:11 PM	#6
Jonathan Heppner Tourist Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 2	That's right It's going to look different on a computer monitor and a television. Especially a CRT to a flat screen. The way these devices handle color and brightness is different. Most people use a reference monitor alongside their computer monitor and adjust color and brightness according to that. You can calibrate your computer monitor but you're not going to have accurate color still because it does not display the same as a CRT. You can use an LCD reference monitor, but they cost quite a lot. If you don't have a monitor, use a vectorscope and a waveform monitor to help you.

March 18th, 2010, 05:15 PM	#7
Jonathan Heppner Tourist Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Los Angeles, California Posts: 2	spyder 3 pro If you have a spyder 3 pro you can buy software to use it on your tv. It is the same device, it just has different software between the tv, pro and elite. Last edited by Jonathan Heppner; March 18th, 2010 at 06:06 PM. Reason: I looked into it

March 20th, 2009, 08:05 AM	#2
David W. Jones Trustee Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,383	Why not just run bars into your production monitor and do a proper setup? That will save you the expense of buying something you don't need.

March 21st, 2009, 03:23 PM	#4
David W. Jones Trustee Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,383	Here is a link... - Color Bars

March 23rd, 2009, 03:59 PM	#5
Rob O'Day Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: UK Posts: 63	It's the brightness/contrast I have problems with, looks fine on my PC monitor but very bright on the TV.