Epson PowerLite Cinema 500 User manual

Epson PowerLite Cinema 500 Update
Your projector includes an additional picture quality setting not described in your User’s Guide.
If you notice faint vertical bands in the picture, you can eliminate them by following these steps:
1. Turn on the projector and let it warm up for about 10 minutes.
2. Darken the room lights. You do not need to project an image from a video source to perform
this adjustment.
3. Press the Menu button on the remote control.
4. Use the arrow buttons to highlight the Setting menu, press to select it, then open the
Operation menu and select LCD Panel Adjustment.
You see this screen, which lets you correct each of the three RGB (red, green, blue) color
components:
5. Select Vertical Stripe Adjustment R. You see this screen:
6. Look at the screen to determine where the vertical bands are more visible—in the light or dark
part of the screen. This is the part you should adjust first.
Note: The banding (if visible) appears within each bar or stripe on the screen.
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Light part of
the screen
Bands

7. If the bands are more visible in the light part of the image, select Bright Color—otherwise,
select Dark Color.
8. Move the slider bar until the bands disappear, then repeat the adjustment for the other (light or
dark) part of the image.
9. Once both adjustments are done, highlight Apply and then press the button.
10. Repeat steps 5 through 9 to adjust the green (G) and blue (B) color components.
11. When done, press the Menu button to exit the menu system.
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