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Video
Display - ISF Calibration
You just spent your hard-earned money on
a new home theater projector or television. So, why is the grass
blue? Don't panic, there is an easy solution. Projectors, just like
televisions and monitors, may need a little tweaking to make them
look their best. Each source (DVD player, DTV box or VHS player)
you connect to your projector will have a slightly different output.
Your video settings will all be affected. Therefore, the picture
issue should be resolved by calibrating your projector or television
with your source.
"If you've spent big bucks
for a big screen, don't accept the mediocre factory setup you get
out of the box, which is only made worse in shipping the set from
the manufacturer to the dealer.
Pay an ISF trained service person to calibrate your set's color
temperature and, if need be, adjust its convergence and optics.
Spending thousands on a set and then saving a few hundred by not
having it calibrated is just plain dumb."
Michael Fremer, SGHT, February 1999, page 22
Why calibrate your
display?
Acoustical - HAA Calibration
What does a high end home theater
system sound like? Is the quality of sound dictated by the equipment,
the room acoustics or is there more? No one would think of driving
their car without the engine properly tuned. Yet many folks do not
realize the same requirement exists for their home theater system.
Movie makers follow very specific guidelines to assure uniform product
quality. Most elements in the recording chain from the filming to
the sound recording adhere to very specific industry standards.
These standards exist, from SMPTE, Dolby, DTS or THX, to make sure
the movie product arrives in a theater looking and sounding the
way it did in the studio. If your theater is not calibrated by these
same standards you are hearing and seeing an inferior product.
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