Dan Miller
Henry Kloss left Advent and founded Kloss Video, and during a training seminar in the mid ‘80s, Dan met Joe Kane, who was working with SMPTE (which Dan joined soon after) and was developing a LaserDisc to help both consumers and technicians get the most from their televisions. Through Joe, Dan learned a tremendous amount about extracting the most accurate picture available. It was during this period that Dan started doing calibrations on various display devices, most of which were CRT based front and rear projection sets. In 1990 Dan purchased a Philips PM5639 Color Analyzer and started to calibrate to a traceable standard. He also joined Sony Electronics that year and in his role as a National Trainer, learned to communicate through public speaking forums to spread the word about accuracy in video. During the ‘90s, Dan acquired much more test gear and now owns a PhotoResearch PR-650 Spectroradiometer, several tristimulus colorimeters, and signal generation equipment from Leader, Philips and Sencore. In 1997, Dan joined Marantz America as their trainer and quickly became involved in product development for video products. Dan’s first “product” was a 4:3 SD RPTV built for Marantz by Philips. This was the first commercially available set that had a whitepoint of D65, the peak white level set to below visible blooming and electronic clipping, and no picture “enhancing” circuits such as auto color or SVM. The set received rave reviews from the newer breed of critics and set the stage for the viability of accuracy in the video marketplace. Currently Dan is heavily involved with DLP front projection development and was responsible for many of the features and technologies of Marantz’ award winning VP-12 series of HD projectors. Dan continues to do calibrations for LionAV allowing him to both stay in touch with the high performance customer base and feed his passion, which has always been about making the most accurate and high performance image possible. This form is for QUESTIONS ONLY. For booking, please go to the Book A Calibration page. |
An industry veteran, Dan has been involved in the Home Entertainment business since January 20, 1972 where he met Saul Marantz at the world premier of the Dahlquist DQ-10 loudspeaker, at Opus One in Pittsburgh. An early disciple of accuracy in reproduced audio as well as a movie buff, Dan became quickly enamored of large screen display devices when Opus One became one of the first dealers for the Advent Videobeam. Soon discovering that proper setup could make all of the difference in how good the picture looked, Dan became an expert on these venerable devices.
I bought my RS20 last month and since then I wasn't able to tweak it to my satisfaction. To my eyes THX mode image look very flat, so I experimented with the popular settings posted around here.
Last night, Gregg Loewen came to calibrate my RS20. He examined my settings and took some measurements.
As you can see in my attachment, D65 wasn't that off, color gammut was right on spot with REC709, and gamma was almost perfect at 2.2.
The first thing he did, was to set the iris properly such that the black levels were accurate. Then he continued doing the contrast and brightness settings. Afterwards, he adjusted the greyscale in such away that it could reduce the DE's below 1, and he succeded in doing so. Finally, adjusted the color and hue. We then took measurements (as post it in the attachment).
We then adjusted the pioneer 51fd, since it was clipping wtw. Then we moved on to watching some demo material, and explained to me about the
different CMS presets and how the THX works properly.
The image now looks flipping great... It really looks very closely to what you actually see in the movie theater, with the exception that it has by far more detailed...
To everyone that ones to have the most of their RS20 I recommend you have Gregg Loewen calibrate it...
- Gonzalez in Washington DC - JVC RS20 THX Certified Projector - February 2009
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