Digital Video Essentials: Optimize Your Home Entertainment System (NTSC Component)

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Product Description

The Easy Way to Optimize Your Home Theater

Digital Video Essential DVD is an interactive step-by-step guide for properly adjusting the video brightness, contrast, color, tint, sharpness and audio controls in your home theater system. It's fun and simple to use. An included set of color filters to look through make it easy to accurately calibrate your TV or monitor for accurate, professional-grade picture quality.

"Digital Video Essential is a real winner," marvels David Blair in a September 6, 2003 review for DVD Talk. "The narration and complex computer animations make this an extremely user-friendly calibration device. Even those who are completely new to the home theater world will be able to learn and adjust their TV on the very first viewing."

Designed and Developed by an Engineering Legend

Digital Video Essentials was designed and developed by A/V legend Joe Kane, one of the most respected figures on the engineering side of video in the entire home theater industry. Digital Video Essentials offers an entire range of audio and video test signals, with easy-to-understand instructions for the all-important tune-up. These test tracks will make the difference between an artificial-looking picture and the amazing picture quality and realism you can only get from a DVD.

Product Specification

Actor:: Digital Video Essentials
AspectRatio:: 1.78:1
AudienceRating:: NR (Not Rated)
Binding:: DVD
Brand:: Digital Video
EAN:: 0647715071224
Format:: Color
Dolby
DTS Surround Sound
Widescreen
NTSC
ISBN:: 1932198474
Label:: DVD International
Manufacturer:: DVD International
NumberOfItems:: 1
ProductGroup:: DVD
Publisher:: DVD International
RegionCode:: 1
ReleaseDate:: 2003-09-09
Studio:: DVD International
TheatricalReleaseDate:: 2001
Title:: Digital Video Essentials: Optimize Your Home Entertainment System (NTSC Component)
UPC:: 647715071224
MPN:: Digital Video Essentials

Customer Reviews

Too confusing

This disc is very complete and has a lot of content if you can find it.The test patterns and sound test are great but the menu system is so crazy and hard to use that I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.I've used it a few times and the only way I can find everything is to watch every preview to get to the content and patterns you want.Again it's exellent if you can figure out the menu but there are better disc's on the market....

9/19/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Nice to have

Also need an audio meter to use the audio setup--I think of myself as an audiophile, have an aperion audio 7.1 system, with a high end onkyo receiver.The onlyo does not have an automatic tuning system, so I need to configure the levels for the speakers manually.So I have used this DVD to set it upI liked the audio setup. I re-do the tuneup every few months.You can really feel the difference before/after. 5 stars here.--I've also used the video setup, to tune the colors of my HD TV, butoften go back...

9/16/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Easy to use once you figure out the DVD menus

The issue was not that the DVD was hard to use its that the menu system is not as clear and concise as it should be. Other than that I calibrated my television in about 30 minutes....

8/23/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Extremely effective but tedius

This is a very effective way to set up your home theater. I bought a new plasma TV and of course, the brightness, contrast and color were set way too high. I put the DVD in, and it opens with a really great NASA shuttle launch sequence.Then it gets into the techy stuff. It is exhaustive and somewhat tedious. The instruction is thorough -- sometimes too thorough, when you just want to get to the part where you reset the contrast, color, or whatever. You will learn more about DVDs and TVs than perhaps...

5/4/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews

Best content, perhaps not the best test patterns

For a true audio/video professional, this may be the best choice for a calibration/test DVD.It has some beautiful test footage, not to mention a wealth of test patterns and instructions on how to use them.But for a slightly easier process, the test patterns on the "AVIA" DVD are more to my liking. It's a subtle difference, but I found them easier to use than the ones offered on this DVD. Then again, AVIA lacks the really stunning test footage. Get 'em both!...

4/18/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews