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Disney WOW: World of Wonder [Blu-ray]

Eryca Dawson (Actor), Craig Sechler (Actor), Richard J. Casey (Director, Producer, Writer) Rated:

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The Disney WOW World of Wonder Disc is a definitive "how to" guide for in-home High Definition (HD) optimization of home entertainment systems featuring the help of classic Disney character GOOFY and including HD demonstration clips from popular Disney titles including Toy Story, Up, Bolt and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. The easy to follow on-screen guide is designed to help consumers get the best quality experience from their home theater systems by providing everyone from beginners and enthusiasts to experts and custom installers alike with valuable high quality calibration tools.

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Until now, do-it-yourself home theater enthusiasts only had two viable options when calibrating their HD-equipped systems: Digital Video Essentials HD Basics and Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark, both of which suffer from a number of shortcomings and limitations (particularly for those trying to fine-tune an LCD, Plasma or LED display). Enter Disney, a somewhat surprising (and welcome) new player on the calibration stage. WOW: World of Wonder not only sets the bar for calibration suites available in high definition, it provides an as-yet-unrivaled home-video education on the nuances of properly calibrated audio and video gear, offers an extensive collection of smartly conceived tests and tools, and delivers it all via a helpful, user-friendly experience designed with a variety of users in mind. --Blu-ray Forum

All home theaters should have a disc like this. WOW is a tutorial disc that helps you to set up your HD system to its maximum potential. It helps you calibrate the sound and the picture, and does so with easy step-by-step guides. --Best Blu-ray Movies, Yahoo News

Kudos to Disney, Using a combination of the beginner and advanced calibration tools, I dialed in the Samsung TV to some accurate, eye-popping levels, Disney's WOW disc is great for installers and home theater enthusiasts. The disc produced some stunning results. --Robert Archer, CE Pro

Product details

Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medNotRated NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.5 x 5.25 x 0.25 inches; 4 Ounces
Director ‏ : ‎ Richard J. Casey
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, Blu-ray, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 4 hours
Release date ‏ : ‎ November 2, 2010
Actors ‏ : ‎ Eryca Dawson, Craig Sechler
Producers ‏ : ‎ John Banks, Richard J. Casey
Language ‏ : ‎ English (DTS-HD High Res Audio)
Studio ‏ : ‎ Walt Disney Studio Home Entertainment
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0045ASBLG
Writers ‏ : ‎ John Banks, Richard J. Casey, Robert Smith
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2

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FlyEaglesFly.

DVD is the same as the Overpriced BluRay for Calibration Part.

Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2018

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I think a lot of people want to know this but don’t see anyone making the comparison. The DVD is exactly the same as the BluRay for calibrating your TV. You don’t need to spend $60 for the BluRay. The only difference I can find are the Disney movie samples at the end, DVD quality vs 1080p full HD. The calibration part, which is why I assume you are buying this, is exactly the same between the DVD and BluRay versions. I bought the BluRay and calibrated both of my TVs and sold it on EBay because of the ridiculous price people are willing to pay for it. I actually more than doubled my money of what I paid for it. Fast forward a year, I bought a new TV (Sony XBRZ9D, an amazing TV by the way) and wanted to check my calibrations against the WOW disk to see if I could get it any better. I bought the DVD version knowing what I know about the WOW disk and also wasn’t going to shell out $60 for the BluRay. I’ve had both versions now, if you don’t care about the short mini Disney movies, the DVD is identical to the BluRay. You don’t need to see these test patterns in 1080p BluRay format, and even if you did, (which again, you don’t) most likely your TV is upscaling the DVD to a little closer BluRay quality anyway. Buy the DVD and save yourself $50, the calibration is identical.

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JustAnotherEngineer

A Great Calibration disc with an Unfortunate Title. You should understand the Limits of ALL calibration discs prior to purchase

Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2013

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I'm an electrical engineer but do not work professionally with video. I own 4 blu-ray HDTV (high definition television) calibration discs: The Disney WOW, Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark I / II and Digital Video Essentials.

Despite an unfortunate title - the Disney WOW is the best of the lot (if you are not using instruments). The title implies a kids video with cartoon characters. Just the opposite is true. This is a serious calibration disc with excellent tutorials, an excellent manual and is the easiest disc, of the lot, to use. There are NO cartoon characters in evidence - this is a serious calibration disc created by a major studio.

However, keep in mind, you'll ONLY be able to adjust 3 parameters on your high definition TV reliably BY EYE ----- NO MATTER WHAT DISC YOU USE.

But these are important parameters.

You'll be able to adjust your black level, white level and sharpness setting. That means your blacks will be as black as possible yet you'll still be able to see dark grays. Your whites will be as bright as possible but you'll still see shades of white just below peak. Finally - you can adjust your sharpness setting for full detail but without any edge enhancement (a white outline around objects to create the false impression of sharpness).

All four of these discs do that but the WOW disc is easier to use and easier to get the best results by eye.

If I were playing around with a test instrument such as a colorimeter (Spyder, etc) and planning on delving into the hidden service menus of my HDTV, I'd purchase the Spears & Munsil II disc. Otherwise the WOW is superior and has the easiest to use test patterns for the key parameters that you can set by eye. In fact, the WOW disc actually has the better patterns with finer granularity than the other discs.

An unfortunate title for a superior disc.

Update (August 2013): Spears and Munsil has just released their second editon test disc which is superb yet the Disney WoW still remains my favorite for setting up the basics

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Steve

If you have a DVD player, this is the best value for a TV calibrator.

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2020

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You've seen it all already. Amazing product with branding that would make you think it's a kids movie. This DVD will give you some of the best results in just about 30 minutes. I highly suggest this one over any other one (including the Blu-Ray addition for this.

The best part about this set is the blue filter piece that helps you to get the color bars to match the setting you're looking to get.

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Michele Guttman

It works

Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2019

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I originally ordered the Spears and Munsil disk because it was blue ray and according to to reviewers went into more detail. Mistake...period. The instructions are unclear at best and the disk is faulty at worse. A help menu is supposed to appear when the up arrow is pressed. It did not. The results were terrible. Don't order this.
I then ordered the Wow disk. Ok, I had to do it. Wow. It is clear, it works, the blue filter is a single filter that doesn't need to be doubled up as in the Munsil disk. It worked, pure and simple. The procedure is outlined in the audio instructions, first as an introduction, then as an actual demonstration. I can't be any clearer myself. this disk is the one to get if you want to calibrate your own LCD, QLED or OLED tv.

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Datdarndot

Does the job without compromise, regardless of your tech level.

Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2015

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Who'dda thunk — an HD home theater calibration disc from Disney! To paraphrase a line from the Ratatouille trailer - "Once you muscle your way past the gag reflex, it's surprisingly good". Though I have calibrated my own and friends' home theaters for years, and consider myself fairly advanced at the task, this disc works great for me. And to its credit, it is presented in a manner that lets you choose whether to let Goofy explain the basics and walk you through the process — or to skip to intermediate or advanced sections without wasting your time (and pride) listening to Goofy. And it's more than just a Blu-ray DVD. It includes a blue-filter viewer for performing chroma set-up, as well as a 53-page illustrated manual for reference. I'd say that WOW: World of Wonder is unquestionably just the thing for 98% of all people wishing to optimize a home theater. Only professional technicians and reviewers who write for Videophile magazines who could never admit they used a Disney disc for calibration need to spend way more moohla for the high-end calibration alternatives.

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Bill Bixby

Heard so many good things about this calibration disc

Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017

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Heard so many good things about this calibration disc. Even though I had some free calibration discs already, I figured I would give this a try. Turned out this was the worst of all of them. For example, using the included blue filter, after adjusting Tint and Saturation per instructions, I was left with an extremely bright, over-saturated mess. After reloading one of my projector's pre-sets I made subtle adjustments until I had everything dialed back in. Really disappointed. One star because if you're a complete novice, some of these tools might improve picture quality but quite a disappointment overall.

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Billy

A very good and reasonably priced calibration Disc

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 24, 2013

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I bought this calibration disc to better the colour reproduction of my HD Samsung tv as well as ensure that my surround sound speakers were set up correctly. I did download the AVSHD709 disc for free from the following site last week and its pretty damn complicated, even following the pdf intructions for it:

avsforum dot com/t/948496/avs-hd-709-blu-ray-mp4-calibration

After spending around 4 hours navigating through all the instructions, explanations and calibration pages on the disney WOW bluray i am incredibly happy with the results.

Instructions are clear and precise and providing you follow the instructions to the T, you will get fantastic results. The disc covers basic, intermediate and advanced options and some things require specialist equipment such as a sound pressure measuring device (for the speakers). For sorting out my surround sound speakers i just downloaded a decibel measuring app and held it in front of my face, i then slowly went through all the tests to ensure that all my speakers were exactly the same volume from my seating position.

Some of the most useful test cards that you get on the bluray allow you to perfectly set up the colour and hue of the tv with the use of a blue transparent piece of plastic in the centre of some card that comes with the bluray. Its hard to explain but by looking at Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Cyan and Magenta through a piece of blue plastic you will see everything on your screen in grey. You simply have to ensure that the top and bottom vertical strips on the screen match colours as best as possible. There are two strips for sorting out the strength of the colour and two for sorting out the hue (how green or how red the picture should be).

The bluray also has an option that allows you see any distortion on the screen or varying colours due to not sitting directly in front of the tv. It displays a pure megenta colour on screen and if there is any kind of discoloration it means you need to rotate the screen slightly towards your view.

To help set up true colours there are sections with mountain scenes, an ocean with a coast, a photo with a woman holding different coloured peppers and a photo of a fruit and vegetable market stall. There are many HD demos on the disc that you can enjou watching after you have done all the fine tuning and calibrating. Toy Story looked absolutely phenomenal after I spent the best part of 3 hours doing all the calibration tests provided.

My calibration settings afterwards:

For a Samsung flatscreen LCD tv:

After Calibration:

Surround Sound Volume

FL 2
FR 4
CENTRE 2.5
SL 6.5
SR 4
SUB -6.5

EQ

Bass +10
Treble +5

Picture:

Standard

Backlight 10
Contrast 100
Brightness 44
Sharpness 76
Colour 52
Tint G 50 R 50

Black Adjust - off
Dynamic Contrast - off
Gamma minus 1
Edge Enhancement - On

White Balance:

R offset 17
G offset 25
B offset 34
R Gain 36
G Gain 34
B Gain 42

Colour Space - Custom

Red

R30

Green

G40

Blue

30

Yellow

R54, G54

Cyan

G44, B44

Magenta

R12, B21

Hope people find them useful, and remember that the colours and brightness arent meant to melt the retinas from your eyes, natural and realistic colours will appear dull but your eyes will quickly addapt and you will appreciate decent blurays much more!

17 people found this helpful

Gareth

Great for setting up the TV's

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 20, 2013

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I have used this with 5 TV's now and people that didnt think it was worth it now realize what a difference this makes. The first time through the basic setup it will take about an hour as you will be learning how to use it and get the most out of the disk, after that you can do a TV in about 15 minutes. I would recommend having one of these in your collection just to get the full potential out of the expensive TV screen you have just brought. I had set the TV's up to what i thought was close to the cinema settings but this made me think how far out i was. The TV is now able to show the pin stripes on suits where as before i thought it was just black. Little changes make a big difference.

On a side note: the player you use to set the TV up should be able to show the full dynamic range. I tried this with a PS3 to start off with and the disk was not showing "beyond Black" and "whiter than White", There is a setting that allows the full range to be displayed through the PS3 and the 3 blu-ray players i have tried have all been no problems at all with it.

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Thomas Cooper

Just what I wanted

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 23, 2013

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This is a good basic calibration tool. Unless you want to be buying light meters and such this will give you a pretty good picture quality and explains a lot of the theory behind it. Has a good set of clips of disney movies so you can test your picture out and hear your surround sound in full glory. Admittedly some of the features are pretty useless to the layman, especially all the sound frequency stuff, but all in all a good package. The pixel shifter is another reason I bought this and is a good idea for anyone who owns a plasma tv. It can solve your image retention problems and worked for me!

Nirlen

Does what it says on the tin and great value!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 3, 2014

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Highly professionally produced (as would be expected of Disney), with clear interactive instructions which makes it very easy to use. It still took probably a good hour to use if only to confirm certain limitations of a new Sony TV. No doubt I will use it again in a couple of months time once the TV has been used for a few hundred hours. Excellent value for money and worth the wait from the USA!

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Greg R.

Ideal

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2015

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Very good set up, from simple to expert caters for most experience. I am somewhere in the middle so spent a fair amount of time doing this but it makes a great difference to the TV.

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