Monster/ISF HDTV Calibration Wizard DVD
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Customer Review: Poor choice
Summary: 4 Stars
Might want to look at a better calibration disk. This did little to improve the picture quality from factory and the voice of the commentator wanted me to turn it off 2 minutes into it.Customer Review: Calibration disc
Summary: 4 Stars
The price was fine, but I thought there was more to calibrating your Plasma TV. Maybe this disc just made it seem so easy.Customer Review: Simple to use, does basic job, highly annoying
Summary: 3 Stars
I ordered this dvd after reading that I might not be getting the best picture from my new high def LCD. I have an Olevia tv and tuned the settings myself using a couple of animated movies such as Shrek and Finding Nemo.
However, I decided to order this since it was supposed to help you fine tune your tv picture without the high price tag of some calibration discs that run up to $400.
This dvd breaks down the calibration into about 8 seperate menus, and really only 4 or so are relevant to calibrating your settings. The first one tunes your black color to the deepest possible black, the next to the whitest white. Sharpness, contrast, and ratio are some other tests included.
However, I found all my settings to be correct for the most part, just by trusting my eyes while watching my other dvd's. I only changed my sharpness, and I think I only took it down one notch. This wouldn't be too bad, except the user of this disc has to suffer through a highly annoying narration of the discs content by the host, Jenna Drey.
The icing on the cake comes when you have "the privilege" of watching Jenna's awful music video, which claims to be the first music video ever done in HD, at the end of the disc. Instead of crisp HD however, the video is shot with a "glamor" filter...the kind that gives that soft fuzzy overtone, which completely defeats the purpose of HD in my opinion. Top it off with a shirtless, kilt-wearing man wielding a pool cue and you have one TERRIBLE music video.
Anyway, bottom line: good for the money if you have no idea what you're doing with your high def television, but if you are even somewhat capable of watching a movie and saying, "the blue sky looks green, I bet I can fix that" then you probably don't need this disc.
Customer Review: Good for a beginner, but not for a home theater buff.
Summary: 3 Stars
I bought this hoping to get the best color out of my set up, but upon running the calibration wizard, I found that the settings I had chosen myself were actually the same as the wizard recommended...
So I guess if you are really new to HDTV color and such, the wizard may get you close to where you want to be. I consider myself to be a novice/enthusiast, with what seems to be a good eye for color, according to Jenna Drey anyway:)
Customer Review: Easy to use but could skip Jenna Drey.
Summary: 3 Stars
This disk is easy to use but is not HD. I used this product and the DVE HD disk. This disk was easier to use and made the TV look better than the DVE disk. The cost was fair. Skip the sales pitch and the music video. It is great for people who want just the basic info and tests to set up a new TV.