Re: TV Color Calibration DVDs-Video Essentials vs Avia vs ??? Any Input???

From: G. Louie (louie_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: 10/14/04 

Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:44:32 +0000 (UTC)

I have DVE, not Avia. The disc has all the test patterns needed to
calibrate a TV, and some instructions and tutorials. What you do
with them is up to you. You can adjust the user controls from the
instructions to get "calibrated" as well as you can - depending on how
your TV is internally calibrated. Basically, that's things like
brightness, contrast, color and tint.

Some TVs cannot be well calibrated at all from the user controls. You have
to go to the service menu (or inside the set if old), and even then, many
set designs will not calibrate correctly, and/or show design deficiencies
that you can't do anything about. If you know how to adjust service menu
items, such as RGB levels for white balance, the patterns on the DVD are
what you need, but things like white balance also require a colorimeter of
some sort.

The DVDs are much cheaper than buying a signal generator.

In article <vh9tm0t7od11m6tnki99tb0d3fvbfp22he@4ax.com>,
Tom MacIntyre <tom__macintyre@hotmail.com> wrote:
>On 14 Oct 2004 09:01:01 -0700, dbacks@attglobal.net (Marc) wrote:
>
>>Hey guys,
>>
>>I need to calibrate the color on a Sony Television, and I see several
>>DVDs for sale that claim to assist in this calibration.
>>
>>Video Essentials and Avia are the two most common that I have seen
>>advertised.
>>
>>Has anyone had any personal experience using a dvd to calibrate the
>>color, or possibly a dvd by a different brand.
>>
>>Do any of these do what they claim?
>>
>>Any thoughts, suggestions or input is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Mark
>
>Two thoughts...does this DVD require you to go inside the set? I find
>it strange that something like that is targetted towards the general
>public, but one never knows. If not, this may not be what you need
>(remembering your earlier post). Also, I think some older sets have
>problems with DVD playback. Is this not an older set?
>
>I may be wrong on both counts.
>
>Tom

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