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Format : Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC, Label : DVD International Languages : English, Manufacturer : DVD International
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Description: The year was 1997, and the disc for videophiles was Video essentials, the ultimate home theater calibration tool of its time. Having sold over 300,000 copies in just the first few years of DVD infancy, it was time to develop the next generation. Now comes Digital Video Essentials, the most advanced program for calibrating today's televisions, including high definition, plasma, and other state-of-the-art screens and home theater systems. Created by Joe Kane and featuring the visual work of renowned cinematographer Allen Daviau (ET, Empire of the Sun, The Color Purple) DVE is the one, the only, calibration program that will render all the other calibration programs obsolete.
Rating : - Truly disappointing, did not live up to the reputation of previous versions I had previously used a prior version of this that I borrowed from a friend to "optimize" my new LCD flatscreen TV. The explanations, guides and menus were very helpful. So I decided to purchase this new version, for my dad, to help him do the same with his TV. They made this latest version completely useless. Here are a list of pros and cons in no particular order.
Pros: It's a DVD (DVD players are cheap)
Cons: Forces you to watch the entire intro (for the DVD and at the beginning of every section) before you can even get to the menu (this was the most annoying). It does not allow you to fast forward through the "lecture" parts to get to the useful information (if you've done this before it gets quite boring very fast. The menu was very poorly structured and difficult to navigate. Forces you to guess where certain parts may be, and most have "lecture" intros that you cannot back out of in case you're wrong(see prior complaint). The all the "useful" parts (i.e. test screens and other calibration tutorials) for your TV were embedded somewhere within the lectures, which again made it difficult to navigate to (see first complaint).
Ultimately, I was so disgusted/frustrated with this product I sent it back to amazon, without actually using it to calibrate Dad's TV. Thankfully amazon has such a wonderful return policy that was the most rewarding part of this whole process (which is actually quite sad).
- Truly disappointing, did not live up to the reputation of previous versions
