Hello From New Orleans.

Thanks all for making me feel right at home instantley. One thing ya'll will get to spot about me right off the bat is my spelling. I have to be the world's worst. Grammer too. Sheeesh! All that money my parents spent on my private school education.

First to Leonard. Man bro we didn't have much pre Katrina, now dude we got even less. It's sad. You know about all we got is the chains, Best Buy an (good bye Circut City). We still have a rather old place called Alterman's Audio. When I became a single man again about 11 years ago(was cleaned out, execpt for my albums) LOL I went and had to purchase my equiptment from a place called Campo's Electronic. Well that day I did my self some justice I think. See what ya'll think.
First I had to replace my TV. So I got a 40 inch picture tube Mitsubishi. remember this is 1997.
A Kenwood 5: 1 , 500 watt receiver and mounted it with the Polk Audio system. Hooked up a Dish Network Satellite system. A few other goodies were a new DVD by Pioneer, which when I bought it it was being debated whether DVD was going to ever put the VCR out of commish. HA!

Well, here we are in 2009 and I just purchased my first LED 47 inch HDTV, because a tree down my street fell on someones power line causing a power surge in my house taking out my Mitsubishi. :-(. And yes guys it was hooked up to a rather expensive surge protector. Which the maker of that protector guarenteed anything that was lost would be replaced for free. HA!! They didn't say then it would be pennies on a lot of dollars.
So now we move on. All I can say to all is man do I love my music. Which is why I was trying to find out about Albums making a comeback. I am getting ready to tear this one down and build it back up with some new toys. When I get the shingles rattling again with a brand new "Live at the Fillmore East") by the Allman Brothers Band I'll be right back in business.

And Greg, NY holds a special place in my heart too. Even though I never have been there before, thats where a great deal of the music I listen to was recorded. The Fillmore East.
Plus I am a die hard Yankee fan. I mean big time and congrats to them. Made my day and I am sure ticked off a lot of other people, LOL

See Ya'll
Mike

Oh, believe me, the Yanks are not dread (in my house at least) by any stretch of the imagination...:neener:

I nkow exactly from whence you speak, I have a friend who's bought (used) several RPCRTs and asked me to tweak each one in turn, which of course involved moving the monstrous things... What I find funny is how he asks me to do it since he knows it makes an improvement with little to no sweat on his part, yet refuses to watch in anything but full blown ambient light, so his image is never what I would call satisfactory. It's really my own fault though... one day I was watching with him and asked if a certain image was supposed to look like that. He had never seen the convergence issues before. Once I pointed them out he couldn't live with it and I found myself doing full multipoint convergence tweaks on every set he's owned since!:doh: I learned, though, I haven't pointed out to him why his latest set needs a full optics cleaning, so he doesn't care!:innocent:

Anywho, as for your Vizio, I personally wouldn't recommend using anyone else's calibration settings. Chief among the myriad of reasons, the first step in a calibration is setting brightness and contrast, which vary greatly depending on viewing conditions, such as ambient light in the room. At the other extreme, you can hire a pro in your area (or one that travels), but that can run several hundres $.

In between there are 2 other options: #1: you can buy equipment and learn to do it yourself, but that too costs $ and you have to learn. #2 and my recommendation to get started, is pick up a copy of DVE, or Avia, or one of the other calibration disks out there which have test patterns AND teach you how to use them! This will be less than $50, and some experts estimate this will get you 75% of the way there!

You can find more information in at least two of the pinned threads in our video section, here:
http://www.hometheatershack.com/forums/hdtv-video-displays-processors/