Monster/ISF HDTV Calibration Wizard DVD
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Customer Review: HDTV Calibration DVD
Summary: 5 Stars
The disc works well with my LCD and Plasma TVs. The instructions make sense and the results are immediiately noticably improved.Customer Review: great easy to use
Summary: 5 Stars
just an easy to use, highly functional way to calibrate your hdtv. it works!Customer Review: Maybe I am simple minded
Summary: 4 Stars
For years your television was calibrated by some folks at Sony whose principal concern was that people look vaguely like people and the sky looks blue and not purple. As long as video arrived at the set with 480 lines of living color, this suited everyone.
Welcome to the digital age. Our "video receivers" are designed for high definition and we have become accused to watching droplets of sweat fly off the face of NFL running backs as they twist away from linebackers. With 1080p and Blu-ray and the right receiver it is not unusual to see a movie in a format even more spectacular than in a theater.
All of this has combined to create a demand for a new product-the calibration DVD. Monster who seeks to sell more gold-tipped HDMI cables figured out people would only buy them if the cables delivered the truly amazing video experience. But when people adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness and the like, do they really know what they are doing? Monster figures they don't and by and large they are right.
If you have an electronics engineering degree from MIT, you probably will not need this DVD. For the rest of us, the "simple minded" as one reviewer called us, it is a nice tool. The interface is designed to speak to the technologically challenged who can be assumed to be the lowest common denominator. I, for one, know how to find the brightness menu, while the DVD assumes I do not. Big deal. People speak down to me all the time, figuring that because of my profession I am incapable of understanding car mechanics or dentistry. (As to one of those I am). If you follow the instructions and it is hard not to if you have completed third grade, you will have a near perfect picture on your $2000 HD video reciever-and that is why you bought it in the first place.
Customer Review: no rocket science
Summary: 4 Stars
overpriced ?? certainly! helpful?? yes! i've used this on several hdtv in the neighborhood including my own. it's simple and concise. once you fast fwd thru the monster cable propaganda the images used to calibrate are real world and to the point. this disc confirmed my tv was adjusted pretty close but the skin tones needed improvement. any novice and some not so novice videophiles can benefit from this disc imho. calibration isn't rocket science and most people can do it without tools but if you want conformation that your four figure hdtv is giving you your best possible picture this product is for you. it gives you simple explanations and instructions that are easy to follow.Customer Review: Good for Setting Black and White Levels Quickly and Painlessly
Summary: 4 Stars
Is it for videophiles or audiophiles? No, and it doesn't pretend to be. It's a good, quick down and dirty way to make a few quick but important adjustments to your display that will at least get them in the ball park, espescially black and white levels. Hey, your grandma could use this calibration disc, and while grammie's adjustments may not compete with a professional calibrator's, her picture will be improved, how much so depends on how far the display is off in the first place.