[voip-ninja]

The recommendation above seems to have been the "jackpot" combination.. the only oddity I observed is that I seemed to get WTW in the test patterns but not BTB... PQ during playback (of at least H264) however looks great and I finally think I'm where I need to be with this.

Did you try adjusting your TV brightness? You should now be getting BtB and WtW, so one step up on brightness should make the 16 bar light up just barely (which would mean that your brightness control was exactly where it needs to be - 16 is supposed to be black).

A lot of calibrators leave some headroom at the top, so if your TV can reach the target brightness at signal level 235 it can continue getting brighter up until where it runs out of power.

Unfortunately the ISF presets are locked (I at one time knew how to go in and tweak things but that was quite a while ago). Even if I change to a different video preset and crank up the brightness it has no affect, so maybe a bug with the VT30 model where with this settings combination BTB is not getting passed.

Picture is good, just would be nice to get that last little bit of range at the bottom. Nothing I can't live with.

Thanks again for all of the help. I might concatenate all of this info over the past few posts into some kind of FAQ but would probably have to get a mod to sticky it or agree it should be added to a Wiki page.