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NovaStar: How do I adjust color temperature, brightness and contrast on my display?

Topic

  • How do I make my NovaStar controlled display pop?
  • How do I manually calibrate/adjust my display with a NovaStar control system. 

Environment

  • Product: Nova MCTRL 600, Nova MCTRL 660, NovaStar VX4S, NovaStar brand sender box and receiver  cards
  • Components: NovaLCT-Mars
  • Control System: Market Standard or Limited Compliance using transmit common/open protocol
    • This includes but not limited to DVN-4003, Dragon sticks, J Series, JVX, SLD-x200, SLD-x400, U Series, Q Series, QVN, Z Series, and ZPN.

Steps

Turn on the display, verify the modules have had a chance to warm up.  (wait 10-15 minutes)

  1. To fine-tune image quality, navigate to the Brightness tab within the NovaStar software. Click on it.
  2. This will bring up the pop up window seen below. Ensure that radio button is set to Manually Adjustment.
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  1. Adjust the sliders as needed. The display will show these changes in real time. Setting desired brightness first is recommended.
  2. When complete, click Save to HW to save settings.
 

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