Popcorn, power, play...
Its been a while, but I used DVE and adjusted black and white levels, tint and ?? maybe some other stuff.
I started with the display's 65k setting rather than the torchmode it was set on.
Once flipped to the 65k setting, the TV was close out of the box, but I made it noticeably better. My display still has a slight red push I can't adjust for, but its pretty good.
As one who spends a considerable amount of time playing around with this stuff, I can state with reasonable confidence that unless there is a color decoder problem in the set itself, red push is generally caused by an inaccurate Gray Scale which would require either a trained ISF technician to do a calibration for you(which would require access to the internal controls of the monitor and proper measuring software) OR purchasing one of these newer outboard units such as a Lumagen(most expensive) DVDO Iscan Duo or Spectracal Video EQPro to do your own monitor calibrations.
Gray scale is STILL an issue with the majority of monitors purchased today, however, we tend to think the picture is good strictly by our own visual observation, which without the proper measuring devices or something else to compare to, our eye is generally not a good method of determining accuracy. Of course, all this depends how serious one is in getting the most out of their monitor purchase especially when interacting with high-performance source devices like BR players. Obviously, your acknowledging the "red push" is one which is showing that the monitor is still not where it could be. I would suspect, even when you turn off the color, there still would be a noticeable predominance of red overlaying the "colorless" picture.
The whole idea of these relatively new consumer oriented video processing/grayscale,color management models, is that the average enthusiast can NOW do their own calibrations especially in a much more detailed manner and accuracy than even an ISF technician who doesn't have access to these outboard units. Also, unless you are in to 3D, you can buy a significantly less costly monitor, take some extra money, buy one of these processors and with a little learning curve, in the end, have a considerably superior picture to the top-of the-line set on its own.
It may be somewhat hard to believe, but it is true.
