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Sound&Vision Home Theater Tune-Up

Sound&Vision Home Theater Tune-Up

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Actor: Sound & Vision
Studio: DVD International
Customer Rating:   18 Reviews
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
Whether you've just purchased your first surround sound system or you've been fiddling with A/V wires since you were 13, Sound & Vision Home Theater Tune-Up is an easy-to-follow tutorial for connecting today's complex digital and analog equipment. The DVD features an articulate couple exchanging barbs as they lead viewers through 80 minutes of instruction on everything from loudspeaker phase checks to video calibration. Scriptwriter- producer Rob Sabin does a superb job targeting novice consumers with non-techy dialogue. The disc incorporates excellent audio test signals, along with an impressive demonstration for adjusting subwoofer crossover settings. The TV calibration section (with supplied blue color filter) enables viewers to easily adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, and color levels. Extras include six Dolby Digital sound demos, a DTS surround music sample, and a THX theater trailer. Although home theater aficionados may find the couple's banter fatiguing, the audio/video tests should leave a favorable impression. --Eric K. Gill

Description
Sound & Vision, the world's largest audio/video magazine, has teamed with Ovation Software, the leading authority on A/V equipment calibration, to bring you this comprehensive, entertaining, and simple-to-use guide to hooking up, operating, and adjusting your home theater for the absolute best performance! Whether you're a novice or enthusiast, you'll find step-by-step instructions, exclusive video patterns and audio tests, and helpful tips for hooking up, adjusting, and operating your system! Exclusive, user-friendly video test patterns, Audio Tune-up with exclusive test signals designed by Sound & Vision Technical Editor David Ranada, including speaker ID/balance for 5.1-channel and 6.1-channel systems, speaker phase, and subwoofer level S-Video/ composite video test, DVD aspect-ratios explained, Jack-by-jack set-up & installation advice. 90 minutes.


Customer Reviews    Read 13 more reviews...
  Meh   July 9, 2008
A. Owen (USA)
Comes with blue filter glasses and a few better than average video patterns. But not much better than any DVD with THX Optimizer. My receiver has its own test tones so those were fairly useless to me.



  High definition setup disk   May 2, 2008
Theodore R. Banks (Tampa, fl Usa)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

Product did not contain everything needed. I would not recommend it to a friend.



  Works for me!!!   November 26, 2007
M. Cuffee (Wash, DC)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

While I like good video, I am not going to call myself a videophile. Heck, I bought a refurbished 32" Vizio. And while I loved having a HDTV, I was not overjoyed by the Vizio's picture. I figured, for $20, I had nothing to lose.

First, using this disc only for video setup was easy. One thing I found, was my tv did not necessarily respond as the instructions stated. Also, the Vizio has several settings beyond "Custom". So after going through the video setup, I was not sure it had helped. I then tried some of the other settings after making the initial changes, such as "movie" and "game", and found one that made the adjustments look great, even at 480i. Definitely worth it if all you want to do is adjust your picture. If you are going to spend hundreds, if not thousands on a tv, for less than a couple of dvds, you can realize the potential of your purchase. Hey Vizio, spring for one of these with your tv's and I bet you'll have a lot fewer returns!!!



  Easy to use   August 6, 2007
M. Wu
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I basically was looking for something just to adjust the picture of my plasma television. This was relatively easy to do using this product. Instructions are easy to follow, and I was able to calibrate my picture in just a few minutes.



  Good for the price   July 15, 2007
Dean! (Dallas, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful

I debated this one for $18 (sealed new) from an Amazon seller or the Ovia one which was $40.

I just purchased an HD LCD TV and some of the content inside this DVD is outdated and has no mentionings on how to adjust an LCD backlight and some other features like Dynamic Contrast, etc.

However, the basic calibrations like Contrast, Sharnpess, Color, Tint, Brightness, etc, are great and get the job done.

The audio tests are nothing more than "Let me send a signal to each speaker so you know which one is left, right, rear, or center, or sub"

It was good for speaker polarity, but I would like to have seen an equalizer test for knowing how to best set mids and highs and filtering out lows - but for testing surround sound - yes it works.

For the money, yes, I recommend this, I wouldn't buy the DVD used since it may not have the blue clear filter lens that is included to help you adjust color and tint. Mine was factory sealed, though it was from a seller.

I will continue to use this DVD at other places through out the house and I'm sure friends will want to borrow it. I also pre-called Blockbuster to see if they rented one out, but they don't - and also I "hear" that Circuit City and Best Buy may give out free ones, but I didn't get my tv from them and didn't know anyone that worked there. I plan to upgrade my audio system and this will come in handy again.

This one's a nice keeper since most tv retain different video settings for the various inputs, so IF I add a HDDVD player or upconvert, I can use this DVD again.



Product Specifications


Format: Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 80 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 647715079022
EAN: 0647715079022
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: January 15, 2002

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