Epson Home Cinema 6500UB Projector Calibration and Settings

Epson Home Cinema 6500UB Basic Settings

In addition to calibrating Red Green and Blue for a correct grayscale balance (6500K), there are a number of other settings that come into play. Typically Contrast and Brightness (white balance and black balance), need to be done first. Color saturation and gamma also need adjustment.

Our final settings (the default settings for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and Tint are all 0, in all modes). Mike made adjustments to these, and the Color Temp settings for each of the seven modes:

Epson Home Cinema 6500UB Post Calibration Grayscale

To get the most out of the Home Cinema 6500UB a calibration is necessary. You have three calibration options: Calibrate it yourself, with calibration discs like the DVE-HD, or Avia, have a professional calibrate it, or you could drop in our settings. Ours may not be perfect for your Home Cinema 6500UB (as each projector is a little different, mostly due to lamp variation), but using ours is likely still a far sight better than sticking with the out of the box settings.

The 6500 UB also has separate color management controls for each primary and secondary colors.

Gamma settings: According to Mike's calibration, the setting that is closest to the ideal 2.2 for movie watching is labeled 2.4 in the Epson menus. From a individual standpoint, I preferred using 2.3, as I found the 2.4 setting a little dark overall. You can fine tune with the custom gamma settings as well.