Digital Video Essentials: Optimize Your Home Entertainment System
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The year was 1997, and the disc for videophiles was Video Essentials, the ultimate home theater calibration tool of its time. Having sold over 300,000 copies in just the first few years of DVD infancy, it was time to develop the next generation. Now comes Digital Video Essentials, the most advanced program for calibrating today's televisions, including high definition, plasma, and other state-of-the-art screens and home theater systems. Created by Joe Kane and featuring the visual work of renowned cinematographer Allen Daviau (ET, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple) Digital Video Essentials is the one, the only, calibration program that will render all the other calibration programs obsolete.
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By
Scratchie
on August 2, 2007
Format: DVD
After spending two hours with this disc, I have succeeded in adjusting a total of three settings on my TV: Brightness, Color and Sharpness. Has there been an improvement in picture quality? Perhaps; it's a little early to say.
But what's undeniable is that the vast majority of information on this disc is useless to me. It's worth pointing out that, although the introduction mentions modern flat-panel TVs (this disc came out in 2003), all of the tests and information on the disc are actually geared towards CRT or projector TVs. That might have been appropriate five years ago, but even in 2003, plasma and LCD sets were starting to make an appearance and it should have been obvious to a supposed professional like Joe Kane that they were going to become a big presence in the home theater market.
Nonetheless, I followed the advice of those who rank this disk highly, and was prepared to sit down and watch the program from the beginning, since there aren't actually any printed instructions included with the DVD. For the first section -- basic adjustments -- the video was very good; everything was explained clearly, and then I was presented with a test pattern with which to adjust my set.
Unfortunately, once I got past the basic adjustments, everything changed. Instead of continuing with the "explain/test pattern" paradigm, the program became nothing but a series of explanations, with no "break" for the user to configure his set based on the information he was just given.
To give you an example: In the basic section, there are instructions for how to adjust the contrast on your set, but they are only useable if you have a non-HDTV, because they depend on seeing the scan lines on the screen.Read more ›
But what's undeniable is that the vast majority of information on this disc is useless to me. It's worth pointing out that, although the introduction mentions modern flat-panel TVs (this disc came out in 2003), all of the tests and information on the disc are actually geared towards CRT or projector TVs. That might have been appropriate five years ago, but even in 2003, plasma and LCD sets were starting to make an appearance and it should have been obvious to a supposed professional like Joe Kane that they were going to become a big presence in the home theater market.
Nonetheless, I followed the advice of those who rank this disk highly, and was prepared to sit down and watch the program from the beginning, since there aren't actually any printed instructions included with the DVD. For the first section -- basic adjustments -- the video was very good; everything was explained clearly, and then I was presented with a test pattern with which to adjust my set.
Unfortunately, once I got past the basic adjustments, everything changed. Instead of continuing with the "explain/test pattern" paradigm, the program became nothing but a series of explanations, with no "break" for the user to configure his set based on the information he was just given.
To give you an example: In the basic section, there are instructions for how to adjust the contrast on your set, but they are only useable if you have a non-HDTV, because they depend on seeing the scan lines on the screen.Read more ›
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