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GetGray Calibration DVD Review
By admin | March 2, 2010
GetGray is an amateur-produced home theater calibration DVD. You can purchase only through the Internet is retrieved, it is a VIDEO_TS folder, you burn a DVD-R. As the title indicates, the main purpose of the DVD is to follow your display device's digital full scale of grays, with the help of a device for measuring the color as ColorVision Spyder2 or Gretag Macbeth Eye One Pro
GetGray a few protesters. First, it can be used alone (alone, without using additional calibration discslike Avia Guide to Home Theater and Digital Video Essentials) with a digital display with LCD, DLP, LCOS, etc. This is not the right to test CRT (cathode ray tube televisions, and old and / or high-end front projectors) do not wanted to assess impulse needle and floral motifs. Secondly, since the DVD is an Internet download, any color filters for primary colors include evaluation no. Disc Publisher assumes you already have a calibration disc with filters and also included a photograph to youroffer to buy a custom filter. Animated de-interlacing tests, the last major omission (I never liked these de-interlacing torture test, they only have the DVD player soon to be public, so feel bad for investment, but probably not see any flaws Real entertainment viewing only). (Plus, many times it was a source DVD guilt. Last week we rented Curb Your Enthusiasm, and massive jaggies distraction all the wallpapers, I think, at a glanceThe emergence of the resolution source video.) (In spite of this aversion to the 3:2-2:2-bad-edit-low-frame-rate-anime-euro-test revealed that PAL DVDs I'm watching the interests " Special shelf whenever I'm in a video store for DVD HQV Benchmark.) Oh, and there are no positive review, with the exception of a control master Tron-like face to lip-sync control.
GetGray main unit is to create a disc that is easy to navigate compared to both the Avia and DVE navigation (Avia is sufficient, but its models have grayNavigation light casting DVE color is terrible, makes you use the Title button on your DVD remote control, torture). Receive Gray has two levels of menus: the main categories (brightness and contrast, gray scale) and their logical pattern test groups (5% Gray Ramp, 20/80% Gray Windows). Highlight the menu item to decrease the model test loop, press the next chapter, last chapter and move inside the circle and the menu, press to move to withdraw the main navigation. Simple.
This simplicity has allowed me toCalibrate my Sanyo PLV-Z3, again and again until 2:30 am, Sunday Evening (can I get rid of a green / yellow cast in 90% and 100% Windows gray, I will be back at it again tonight So that the right setting for combo flat contrast in grayscale and high is hidden in the projector), with some buttons on my universal remote. I have the following test signals super useful and convenient:
* 5% Gray Ramp: This test model is great for the installation of contrast and brightness,simply adjust each until the third last bar from each end of the mixtures in the last two lines. This chart will also be for you a good idea of what the control grayscale display device (eg, RGB gain and offset Sanyo Z3) changed.
*% Gray Windows 20/80: This high-low-loop gray screen quickly use the controls to adjust grayscale. There will also be expected between the two, often set the grayscale to perfection.
* 10% Gray Windows: after obtaining the RGB to grayscale with the ballthe 20/80 windows, each sample is 10% increase – 0-100% – and give the forum member ACP Radar Colorimeter spreadsheet to track your target D65 gray for all the 2.2 target gamma.
GetGray contains brief instructions for each of the signals covered by some advice on calibration and additional resources for the blue filters and discs further testing.
If you are experienced or calibration for the next instruction manual contains a great overview tutorial /process for amateurs or professionals (with or without the software): Accucal, Smart III, color Facts 6 (direct PDF download).
If you have a digital front-projector and a Spyder2 Pro or Eye One GetGray must-buy. Affordable costs $ 25, which ensures that the update to all 1.0 patch (the current version is 1.1 NTSC, PAL is in beta late). Show your support for calibration amateur child and obtain an accurate and easy to calibrate.
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