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Jenna Drey will help calibrate your new HDTV

HdtvcalibrationwizardWhen you buy a new HDTV you'll generally find that the factory defaults are set with the brightness, contrast and sharpness way too high.

Buying a calibration DVD could be the answer to getting your new TV looking good in your home.

Whilst the HDTV Calibration Wizard may not be as advanced as some of the others on the market, it does feature singer/songwriter Jenna Drey, who apparently steps you through the process of balancing the essential elements.

You don't get complete audio calibration tones and video test patterns, but you do get Jenna Drey's latest music video, the first recorded in WMV HD (720p) with 7.1 digital audio.

Beats a test card any day.

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Posted by Andy Merrett on May 23, 2006

Comments

Trouble with these DVD's is that your calibrating your DVD inputs and not say your $ky HD input.

Or am i wrong???

Posted by: dazzler | May 23, 2006 11:21 PM

Well, yes, that's a fair point. Every piece of equipment outputs differently. I suppose for the consumer market it gives a good basic setup. It would be useful if the TV itself had a calibration system, but you'd still need seperate defaults for each input if you wanted to match different outputs.

Posted by: Andy Merrett | May 24, 2006 7:50 AM

This is a DVD which is SD and not HD. SD and HD use a different greyscale ramp, and greyscale is what colour calibration is all about. So it's actually impossible to correctly calibrate HD setting using SD content, what you need is HD DVD or BluRay calibration disc.

Posted by: StooMonster | May 24, 2006 9:28 AM

D'oh - didn't think of that. I'm not quite sure how they're allowed to sell it as HDTV calibration, if it's not. At best it's misleading (well it misled me...)

Posted by: Andy Merrett | May 24, 2006 10:36 AM

Yet another example of just how confusing the transition to High Definition can be! Does anyone believe that ordinary consumers will have the savvy and/or time to work out whether they are really getting their money's worth in picture quality from their equipment? Or are companies expecting people to just buy, buy, buy because of the HD logo?

Posted by: Jamie | May 24, 2006 11:15 AM

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