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Given the potential EZCal has in winning AV enthusiasts to Samsung’s premium TV cause, though, you’ve got to imagine that the brand’s TV engineers will look at finding a way to implement it sooner rather than later.ĭon’t hold your breath about it being supported by other TV brands, though. In fact, it’s not yet definite that EZCal will appear on any TV at all. It’s therefore not clear yet whether EZCal might be added to Samsung’s 2021 range by a firmware update, or whether we’ll have to wait until 2022. And since it has been created through an internal scheme for developing ideas suggested by Samsung staff, rather than originating inside Samsung’s core TV engineering department, formal discussions with Samsung’s TV division about using it will only begin in earnest in February when EZCal’s development process is complete.

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Photo: SamsungĬurrently, EZCal compatibility is only available on Samsung TVs featuring custom software builds. It's not yet confirmed whether EZCal will be available on Samsung's 2021 Neo QLED TV range.

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Full details of the TV side of things have yet to be ironed out, but the EZCal team did say that the expectation is that the EZCal-calibrated image would replace a Samsung TV’s out-of-the-box Movie mode setting. EZCal support also needs to be designed into a TV’s firmware. The phone is, of course, just one half of the EZCal process. The quality of the camera in any given phone is clearly critical to how effectively the system works, after all, and Samsung claims that this is why it currently only feels confident so far about recommending EZCal for recent Samsung and Apple phones. Samsung hasn’t yet finalized a list of the Samsung Galaxy and iPhone models EZCal will work with. In fact, Samsung stated that it is targeting a Delta E 2000 error of just 0.5 before it wraps up its development work on EZCal in February. But part of calibration, of course, is being able to measure the results, so there doesn’t seem any reason to doubt Samsung’s claims.

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Also, because of how long it takes, I wasn’t shown a live run-through of the Professional mode. I repeat that there was no way to verify these accuracy percentage claims during the ‘remote’ demo I was given. Samsung claims that the reward for your extra effort and time is a calibrated picture that achieves around 97-98% of the accuracy your might get with a full professional calibration. Given the time this mode takes and the accuracy of the results, you need to darken your room for the process and, ideally, place your smartphone on a tripod. This can take up to 15 minutes to complete, but covers white balance, greyscale linearity, gamma and chromaticity. If this isn’t enough for you, though, then EZCal also provides a Professional mode. The EZCal system can take into account the lighting conditions of your room when making its. Which means that the level of ‘error’ in the calibration process is below the threshold of human perception. In fact, Samsung claims that the results of the Basic Mode calibration achieve a Delta E 2000 value of less than one. It takes a maximum of three minutes to run (again, it could be less depending on the capabilities of your phone and TV), but crucially Samsung claims it can deliver around 90% of the accuracy you would expect to achieve with a professional calibration. This calibrates 20 points of white balance, and also analyses greyscale linearity and gamma. If you want much more accurate results, the EZCal app provides a Basic Mode. Obviously there was no way for me to confirm this via a laptop presentation - but even on the laptop feed it was easy to see how the ‘after’ EZCal Quick Mode calibration image looked noticeably closer to a professionally calibrated image sitting alongside it than it did before the 15-second calibration had been run. The Samsung representative I spoke with suggested that the Quick Mode delivers around 70% of the accuracy you might get with a full calibration. The Quick Mode only works at the 2pt white balance level, so there are limits to its results. This is pretty amazing when you consider that professional calibrators usually allow at least half a day for a full calibration visit. The exact time for each Quick Mode calibration will vary according to the capabilities of your phone and Samsung TV - though during the demo I saw, the Quick Mode process actually took only 15 seconds. The Quick Mode takes less than 30 seconds to complete all of its measurements and TV adjustments. EZCal gives you three different calibration options.

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