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MauritiusToday.com - Shopping Mall - Avia II
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List Price: $49.99
Our Price: $30.99
Your Save: $ 19.00 ( 38% )
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Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Starring: Avia 2: Guide to Home Theater
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Average Customer Rating:  
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Ovation Multimedia
EAN: 0684503000004
Feature: Menu provides synthesized audio & video signals designed to set up & test your home theater system
Format: AC-3
Label: Image Entertainment
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Model: AVIA II
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Image Entertainment
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Running Time: 121
Studio: Image Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Features
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Menu provides synthesized audio & video signals designed to set up & test your home theater system
Learn what you need for today's Hi-Def technology
Easy-to-follow menus lead you directly to the information you want to know about
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Editorial Reviews:
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From the makers of Avia and Avia Pro comes the definitive and easy-to-use tutorial for optimizing your home theater. This all-inclusive guide to home theater calibration for NTSC, HD-DVD, Blu-ray or PAL formats comes with more than 200 test patterns to achieve superior video quality and nearly 100 audio tones for 5.1 and 6.1 channels, plus Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus. Basic and advanced signals allow you to select the test pattern or sound tone needed for a specific calibration, and tutorials cover various home theater components, speaker types and placement, making connection and wiring, and using a sound meter and home theater environments.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Save your money on this one
Comment: This video really only helps with a couple of things such as brightness. It wasn't that far off from the factory settings on my plasma tv. Don't bother with this video unless you need a $30 coaster.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Good product. Did as advertised
Comment: This disc was simple and easy to follow. The 2 "stars" were both informative in their directions, which were easy to follow. I haven't accessed the extra content yet, but the basic tests used will calibrate your display perfectly. This disc is good for both the inexperienced and the "pro". It's broken down into chapters, so if you need to go step-by-step you watch the entire disc. If you have prior knowledge RE: calibration you can skip right down to the tests.
All in all a great product, but if I had to say something bad about it, it could have been less expensive?
Customer Rating:
Summary: Did the job...but I expected more
Comment: First of all I received the DVD 3 days earlier than the expected receive date. This was nice. The DVD case is cheaply made. The DVD was sliding around inside the case to the point that it scratched the disc. The colour filters are just tossed into the DVD case separated by tissue paper. The two guys narrating on the disc do a fairly good job explaining surround sound and HDTV settings. Using the HDTV calibration menu it was easy to calibrate my Plasma TV. I could tell the difference between my original settings and the calibrated settings. Calibrating my surround was just as easy. Navigating through the disc is a bit difficult. Some of the HDTV calibration test you need to repeat a couple of times. I could FF through some of the test but other test I could not FF. Between the overly casual nature of the narrators, the very plain set/stage and the script reading it appeared to me that this disk was kind of thrown together. Like I said. The disk did the job, but I expected more.
Customer Rating:
Summary: save your money
Comment: might not be completely useless, but it's close enough. Maybe I'm being a little harsh, because I did wait long enough after buying my TV to have tweaked the settings to my satisfaction without this disc. The biggest reason I got it was to check the color accuracy, and I find their method of doing so extremely flawed. In fact, I found it useless.
You're looking through colored gels at a color test pattern with blinking squares in the center, and you really can't tell what the heck you're adjusting, or if it's getting better or worse or what. Just play a bunch of DVDs and watch a lot of broadcast channels and tweak until you get the skin tones right on most of them, it'll be better than this.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Beginner explanations, good patterns
Comment: The explanations are pretty basic/simplistic. As others have said, I could have used way more explanation on the contrast/brightness. I also have the DVE blu-ray, which has its own problems, but the explanations are much more detailed.
What brought it up to a 4 was the patterns at the end. There is a PDF which explains how to use the patterns, and they are useful. If they had a PDF that better explained the details of contrast etc., that would have brought it up even more. They say on the video that various things like links etc. are on the DVD, but I only found a PDF explanation of the extra patterns, and a glossary.
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