Monster/ISF HDTV Calibration Wizard DVD

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 10 x 6 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000EEXEIW
• Item model number: ISF CALDSK
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 30, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

HDTV Calibration Wizard
Calibrate Your High Definition TV to Professional ISF Standards

The Monster/ISF HDTV Calibration Wizard DVD is the next best thing to hiring a costly technician to visit your home. The Calibration Wizard provides easy-to-use live video shots to help you calibrate your TV without complicated test patterns. You will be amazed at the better detail, more realistic picture quality, and more accurate black levels and contrast.

Chapters Introduction From The Head Monster 10th Anniversary ISF/Monster How This DVD Will Make Every Other DVD Better! How Black are Your Blacks? How Bright are Your Whites? Are Your Pictures Colorful Enough or Way Too Colorful? Is Your TV Sharp? Am I Too Fat? Time to Enjoy Your TV Are You Well Connected and Properly Powered?

Product Description

easy-to-use, live video shots help you calibrate your TV * created by Monster, the Imaging Science Foundation, and Microsoft® * hosted by Monster Cable founder Noel Lee and singer/songwriter Jenna Drey *

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

68 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good for the simple minded, June 1, 2006

By	San Jose Reviewer (San Jose, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This DVD is okay. It does what it advertises, but there are much better calibration DVDs out there. This DVD doesn't contain any audio calibration, which is what I also wanted. Some of the calibration on the DVD is too subjective for my taste. I really thought the music video at the end was rather pointless. If you're a guy with a short attention span, this DVD will probably work for you.

I found that "The AVIA Guide to Home Theater" DVD was much better. The AVIA DVD provides much less subjective calibration. It contains audio calibration. It contains suggestions on the types of cables to use, and other helpful suggestions for setting up your home theater. The only downside of the AVIA DVD was that it wasn't widescreen, unlike this widescreen DVD, but in reality the widescreen video is only useful if you're too blind to notice that your aspect ratio on the TV is causing circles to look like ovals.

Personally, I thought this Monster/ISF DVD was a waste of my money.

134 of 143 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Complete Waste of Money, April 24, 2006

By	R. Smith (Houston, Texas United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Marc Anderson's review below hits the nail on the head. This is possibly the most useless TV tool and/or calibration tool that has ever been marketed. It is about as high tec as a plastic pair of 3-D glasses and about as useful also. When you buy a calibration disc you are not interested in someone's singing career or her "cutsy" expressions about calibration. This really is a disc that explains the 4-5 basic components of TV calibration whilst leaving the viewer hanging at the point where more info. is necessary. It may be helpful to someone who has not owned a color TV in the last 45 years but otherwise there is no value added. It is certainly easy to use because there is nothing really to use. Absolutely terrible!

132 of 144 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars There has got to be something better., April 6, 2006

By	Marc Anderson (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Don't waste your money on this. It seems the only reason this DVD was made was to feature someone's girlfriend's video. It's nothing more than...if you see an X on the screen your brightness is set too high and the girl in the middle should look good while the one one the right looks pasty. Now your done let's watch a terrible music video.