Anyone here own AVIA Guide to Home Theater?

[Centaur6]

Does anyone here own AVIA Guide to Home Theater? Post here if you do please.

 

[deftron]

I have "sound and Vision" home theater set up DVD

which is almost the same thing/

 

[Emos]

I have it. What do you need to know?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: Emos
I have it. What do you need to know?

Ditto. It's the De Facto standard for home theater calibration. Ask your question here...I'm not going somewhere else to answer..

I have had people that have newer top-of-the-line Sony's/Toshibas/Panasonic (but they don't bother calibrating them! ) see a DVD on my older Sony Trinitron thru the S-video input remark:

Damn, that looks good...sh1t, it looks great! How'd you get it to look like that?

See, they can't be bothered "wasting" $50 on this DVD. It's worth every penny IF you can "spare" a few hours to learn how to use it correctly.

 

[arod]

I have the Video Essentials DVD.... Avia was too expensive

 

[exp]

Yeah, I also have AVIA and it's easily the best DVD I own since it makes all the others look and sound better. You should be able to find it for $35 shipped online somewhere...well worth it if you have at least a 27"+ TV and/or a DD5.1 speaker setup.

Although it is not for everyone, as I found out last year. Heh. I brought the AVIA disc with me to visit the folks this past Christmas and adjusted my Dad's new TV to perfect image quality. But over the course of the next week I noticed that someone was changing the settings back to the factory default (=HORRIBLE). Really bizarre stuff....every time I changed the TV to the AVIA-calibrated CUSTOM setting it would revert to STANDARD within a day. WTF was going on? Well, finally I caught my dad in the act of undoing my handiwork and he confessed to actually preferring the washed-out, red-pushed, over-exposed image of the original setting. LOL...his old eyes aren't what they used to be, I guess.

 

[mpitts]

I have the AVIA disc. Why?

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: exp
Yeah, I also have AVIA and it's easily the best DVD I own since it makes all the others look and sound better. You should be able to find it for $35 shipped online somewhere...well worth it if you have at least a 27"+ TV and/or a DD5.1 speaker setup.

Although it is not for everyone, as I found out last year. Heh. I brought the AVIA disc with me to visit the folks this past Christmas and adjusted my Dad's new TV to perfect image quality. But over the course of the next week I noticed that someone was changing the settings back to the factory default (=HORRIBLE). Really bizarre stuff....every time I changed the TV to the AVIA-calibrated CUSTOM setting it would revert to STANDARD within a day. WTF was going on? Well, finally I caught my dad in the act of undoing my handiwork and he confessed to actually preferring the washed-out, red-pushed, over-exposed image of the original setting. LOL...his old eyes aren't what they used to be, I guess.

In the end, that's what counts, though.

I have two settings on my TV. One is the Avia standard which is great for evening. But during the day, it's far too dim to see, so I have a day setting with increased black and white levels.

 

[GoingUp]

can you rent one of these things from blockbuster?

 

[DeafeningSilence]

Originally posted by: arod
I have the Video Essentials DVD.... Avia was too expensive

Anyone have experience with these 2 and could compare them?

 

[NewSc2]

Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
can you rent one of these things from blockbuster?

yep

 

[spidey07]

yes - it is a must own DVD.

 

[kami]

I have it...TVs ship from the factory with CRAP settings...AVIA fixes this and the difference is stunning sometimes.

 

[bUnMaNGo]

I do but I don't understand the point of this thread