Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition
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Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, who created the highly-regarded DVD Player BenchmarkTM and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity®, have applied all their technical wizardry to this Blu-ray test and evaluation disc.
"The static test patterns represent the current state-of-the-art. They are more accurate than the test patterns found on previous discs. There are a lot of subtle details that go into making them as mathematically accurate as possible, e...
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August 13th, 2009
Im an dedicated reader of “Home Theater” magazine and they wrote an article for this BD. So being the enthusiast I am, I purchased this BD with in minutes of reading the article. I’m glad it did! Spears & Munsil have definitely set the standard for HDTV calibration. I have used other cal BD’s and they were great, but none come close to this one. The BD offers a array of test patterns to calibrate/adjust your TV. It even prove that my TV “Cine-motion” feature was better turn “off”. They are also video in 7.1 Dolby HD and DSP HD to test your surround speakers. They dont offer test tones, thats my only complaint. But don’t let that stop you from getting this BD. I’m still a fan of ISF calibrations, but if you don’t have $400.00 to invest in a full “ISF” cal, then I would highly suggest you buy this BD.
Sony XBR6 52″ is perfect after Spears & Munsil.
August 13th, 2009
This Blu-ray disc helps greatly in calibrating black and white levels of your HDTV set. It also has all kinds of tests with uncompressed video. Great tests to see what your HDTV or an HDTV you might buy is capable of. The Blu-ray has great explainations with each test in what to look for, probably is not the best way to calibrate your TV, but these patterns are again very nice for the basics: Brightness, constrast, color, sharpness. A very nice montage in lossless audio is very nice, very beautiful montage of the seattle area mostly in the video. Recommend for people who really cannot afford a calibration unit themselves or cannot afford and ISF certified calibration as well.