Sharpness - This pattern is used to check for sharpening artifacts such as ripples near hard edges. The best pattern for initial brightness setting is the "PLUGE Low" pattern. Note: this is not the recommended pattern for setting brightness.
The ramp below the solid white bar should be smooth and free of stairsteps. To set color, look through a blue filter, or put the display in "blue only" mode if available, and adjust the blue, cyan, and magenta bars so they match the brightness of the white bar beneath them. HD Color Bars - This is an alternate color bar pattern designed for modern displays.
Note: this is no longer the recommended pattern for setting brightness. Most displays will not need much, if any, color adjustment. Look at the display through the filter or with only the blue channel visible and adjust the color control until all of the blue, white, magenta, and cyan bars look as close as possible in brightness. This requires a blue filter or the ability to turn off the red and green channels on the display. Note that it may be difficult to see the highest and lowest three or four levels clearly unless you are in a dark room with your eyes fully adjusted to the ambient level.Ĭolor Bars - This pattern is designed for setting the color (sometimes called "picture") control on the display. Both of the center ramps should be smooth and free of visible steps. The ramp that goes from white to black and back should have a wider black stripe in the center. The ramp that goes from black to white and back should not have an extra-wide center white stripe. The numbered black bars should be distinct from the background starting at bar 17. All of the numbered white bars should be visible and distinct from the surrounding background. To set the black level properly, start with the PLUGE Low pattern, then come back to this pattern to verify the black level still looks right.Ĭontrast -This pattern is designed for fine-tuning the settings of the brightness and contrast controls. PLUGE High - This is a pattern used to check that the black level looks correct even when there is another bright image on the screen. If you cannot see the left two bars even if you turn up the brightness, turn down the brightness until the second bar from the right disappears and the far right bar is barely visible, then raise the brightness one notch. Then turn the brightness down until the left two bars disappear and the right two bars are still barely visible. First turn up the brightness until all four bars are visible. It is used to set the black level of the display by adjusting the brightness control. PLUGE Low - PLUGE stands for Picture Line-Up GEnerator, the name of the device that generated patterns similar to this in the early days of television. To evaluate the display, set the player to output YCbCr 4:2:2 to avoid extra color space conversion. To evaluate the display, set the output resolution to "Source Direct" if your player supports it.Īspect Ratio - The disc uses 16:9 aspect ratio.Ĭolor Space - To evaluate the player, test all available color spaces. Player Video Output Resolution - To evaluate the player, set the output resolution to best match the display’s native resolution.
Please refer to the instruction manuals of your Blu-ray Disc player and display device (television or projector) for how to setup each device. Right and left arrows move to the next and previous patterns.Up arrow displays the help screen for that pattern.Remote controls usable while displaying a pattern: Patterns will loop continuously unless the "loop" feature is turned off in the Setup menu. The video clips are available in several codecs and resolutions, selectable in the Setup menu. The "Edge Adaptive" patterns are to test deinterlacing of video-source material.
The "Source Adaptive" patterns are to test deinterlacing of film-source material.
Use the arrow keys on your remote to navigate the main menu and select a pattern. Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Edition User's Guide