Runco Rs 440lt Projector User Manual

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4.1 
Using the On-Screen 
Menus
 Press the MENU button on the remote control to display the Main Menu. To select a 
menu item, use the 
 and  buttons on the remote control to highlight it. Press 
ENTER to confirm your selection. 
 Use the arrow buttons to select menu items or change settings. 
 Press EXIT to return to the previous menu. 
 Press MENU to turn off the OSD menu. (When the Main Menu is displayed, pressing 
EXIT also turns off the...

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Main MenuThe Main Menu is the starting point for accessing all projector functions. (You must enter a 
passcode to access the ISF menu.)
Source Select
Video
S-Video
Component
HDMI
DVI-D
DVI-A
Picture Adjust
Picture Memory ISF Night, ISF Day or Custom
Brightness
Contrast
Color
Tint
Sharpness 0 ... 6
Gamma 1.5, 1.8, 2.0, 2.2, 2.35, 2.5
Color Temp.5400 K, 6500 K, 7500 K or 
8500K
Color SpaceAuto, HDTV,...

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Source SelectChoose Source Select from the Main Menu to switch video sources. 
The active source is indicated by an arrow to its left; in this example, Video is the active 
source. To select a different source, use the 
 or  button to highlight it and press 
ENTER. 
Picture AdjustUse the controls in the Picture Adjust menu to calibrate your RS-440 for optimum picture 
quality. To access the Picture Adjust menu, press MENU, highlight...

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Brightness: On your external test pattern source, select a PLUGE pattern. (PLUGE is an 
acronym for “Picture Line-Up Generation Equipment.”) 
Figure 4-2 shows a typical PLUGE 
pattern.
Figure 4-2. Typical PLUGE Pattern for Adjusting Brightness
PLUGE patterns vary but generally consist of some combination of black, white and gray 
areas against a black background. The example above includes two vertical bars and four 
shaded boxes....

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Color: On your external test pattern source, select a color bar pattern like the one shown 
in 
Figure 4-4. 
Figure 4-4. Typical Color Bar Pattern for Adjusting Color Saturation and Tint
Select Color from the Picture Adjust menu and press ENTER. While looking at the color 
bar pattern through a blue filter, adjust the color saturation level until the outermost (gray 
and blue) color bars appear to be a single shade of blue: 
Brightness...

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Tint: Tint or “hue” is essentially the ratio of red to green in the color portion of the image. 
When tint is decreased, the image appears redder; when it is increased the image 
appears greener. To set the tint, select Tint from the Adjustment menu and press ENTER. 
While looking at the color bar pattern through a blue filter, adjust the tint level until the cyan 
and magenta color bars (on either side of the green bar) appear to be a...

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Color Space: Select Color Space from the Picture Adjust menu to choose the color 
space of the source signal for HDMI, RGB and component connections.
 The default setting, Auto, functions as follows:
HDMI/DVI-D: If the Auxiliary Video Information (AVI) infoframe contains color space 
and/or range data, the RS-440 uses that information. Otherwise, for RGB sources, 
the RS-440 uses the RGB-Video color space. For component SDTV and EDTV...

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Aspect RatioTo change the aspect ratio (size and shape) of the projected image, select Aspect Ratio 
from the Main Menu and press ENTER. Select the appropriate aspect ratio for your 
screen size and the type of program material being viewed, then press ENTER; refer to 
Table 4-1. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Aspect Ratio
➨16:9
4:3
Letterbox
Virtual Wide
Cinema
Virtual Cinema
➤
Table 4-1. Aspect Ratio Settings 
Aspect 
Ratio 
Setting
Description...

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Letterbox
With a 16:9 source 
image, Letterbox mode 
crops the top and 
bottom portion of the 
image and vertically 
stretches the remaining 
portion to fill a 16:9 
image area. 
 
 
It scales (zooms in on) a 
4:3 image linearly (by the 
same amount on all 
sides) to fill a 16:9 
display. 
16:9
4:3
Virtual-
Wide
A 16:9 image is shrunk 
horizontally in the center 
and stretched 
horizontally in a 
NON-linear fashion (more 
on the...

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Cinema
Select Cinema to view 
2.35 source material in its 
native aspect ratio.
With a 16:9 screen and a 
non-CineWide projector 
(no anamorphic lens), the 
upper and lower portions 
of the screen are 
masked, but the 
geometry of the active 
image area is 
unchanged.
With a 2.35:1 screen and 
a CineWide-equipped 
projector, the video 
processor scales the 
2.35:1 image so that the 
active image area fills the 
16:9 chip surface,...