SPEARS & MUNSIL HIGH-DEFINITION BENCHMARK BLU-RAY DISC EDITION
- Calibration patterns for all vital arrangement controls
- Evaluation patterns for measuring arrangement and player quality
- Clips to exam deinterlacing performance
- Samples of opposite video and audio codecs
- All patterns combined at 1080p in local color space regulating law software
Product Description
Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, who combined the highly-regarded DVD Player BenchmarkTM and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity®, have practical all their technical necromancy to this Blu-ray exam and analysis disc.
“The immobile exam patterns paint the stream state-of-the-art. They have been some-more correct than the exam patterns found on prior discs. There have been a lot of pointed sum which go in to creation them as mathematically correct as possible, generally given you have been traffic with lossy encoding. We have built appropriateness collection to beget the fake patterns. We have use of a law encoder which will safety as most item as possible. Even the elementary color bars have singular traits which have them cleaner. – Stacey Spears, writer of the disc”
[Picture Quality Calibration and Evaluation Tool for Displays, Blu-ray Players and Video Processors]
(IMPORTANT NOTICE: This front is a high-definition front and is concordant usually with Blu-ray players. It will not fool around on a customary DVD player.)
Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition
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Don’t expect much from this disc. It’s good only for the basics: Brightness, contrast, color, sharpness. It offers no help whatsoever beyond that. Other tools included are for diagnosis only, so it doesn’t tell you how to fix them. The website is useless. It has only what you get on the booklet that included with the disc. It improved the picture of my Samsung LN40B630 by no more than 25-30%.
Rating: 2 / 5
I was thrilled to see all the 5* reviews from handful of users before me and bought it immediately. I went through the calibration on my Samsung LN52A650 and the results are worse than the presets. I tried it another time and realized that my TV is better off without this disc. Many settings were there only so you can either be happy or sad about your TV purchase and offer little control to fix any issues. Looks like at least the Samsung line of LCD HDTVs are near-perfect straight out of the box.
Rating: 1 / 5
I have a rear projection TV. This is really great for getting your contrast, brightness, sharpness, color, and tint settings correct, but lacks for other areas. There is only one item helpful for setting/correcting geometry issues. I guess I was expecting more for the price. I thought my TV would look like a professional had calibrated it when done. Not so much. I would say this helps the do-it-yourselfer, but it will not replace a professional job.
Rating: 3 / 5
Now that I have my home theatre setup with the best equipment I can afford, I wanted the picture on my new 52″ Samsung (LN52B630) to be as good as possible w/o spending $200 on Geek Squad calibration. I read the reviews about this product and purchased it immediately.
When it arrived, I popped it into the PS3 and began down the road to perfection. But something happened on the way– I was hi-jacked by Spears & Munsil! (and the Amazonians who wrote the sparkling reviews for this, well, let’s say ‘spartan’–instead of worthless–piece of fluff)
Let me say here that ALL the pre-sets on the Samsung were factory set at 50 (0-100 scale).
Each “test” had a picture on what correct and incorrect were supposed to look like
The first test was to balance the high and low black/white differences. “You will see 4 bars appears. When the outer 2…” it then goes on to say “sometimes you’ll only see 2 bars” as was the case with mine. Once I went up and down with the control, turned the lights in the room from bright to dark and whirled like a dervish while eating a tuna sandwich (ok, maybe that last part is embellisment)–once I did everything to the disk’s specs, guess what? My new contrast setting was 51.
On to brightness. “You will see 22 bars across the top and bottom. 17 and on is good for the black, all 22 white should show”. NEVER did!. I got the 17 blacks to show but only a 3rd of the whites. So, on to the gradient test. White to black and back to white; black to white and back to black. “Note that the white line in the middle will be thin and the black line thick”. NEVER!
No matter what I did to tweak the contrast, brightness, edges, etc, NOTHING would allow me to see a fully “correct” image.
So, naturally, I got as close as I could to ‘correct’. And guess what? New settings of 48 and a 52 (trust me, there was barely a difference between 48 & 50 or 52 and 50).
On to color. This one actually worked fairly well. But?? Yup, new settings were 50.
All the other tests were equal wastes of time. ALL of my ‘new’ Samsung settings were between 48 and 55.
Perhaps the others who wrote the reviews which lead to my purchase bought lousy TVs to begin with; perhaps it DID make a difference to theirs. But my nephew bought a LN46B650 the week before I did; and he got the exact same results (and frustration) that I got– and he knows a LOT about computers and home video components.
In short– BAD BUY. Save your money
Rating: 2 / 5
given the previous reviews, was hoping for better results from using this. factory settings on my samsung were actually better. not for me but perhaps others will find it more helpful.
Rating: 2 / 5