I was recently given this from a friend because he got rid of his bigscreen. I keep hearing people talk about Avia and such but never mention this 1. here is a link with some info:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...v=glance&s=dvd

if not what is the best for setting up a new RPTV?

i use this one.

Yeah, so do I.

That's why in another thread today I said it was my most watched DVD.

Chris I've never heard of that one. I'd stay with either Avia or Video Essentials as they have a proven track record with pro calibrators. Avia also has a little brother that's scaled back in some ways but does add support for DTS. It's called Sound and Vision Guide to Home Theater and is made by the same company that did Avia.

I got the AVIA disc a few weeks ago and used it to make the basic adjustments, (before I really get into it).

I noticed a few things.

(BTW, I have a 65" Mitsubish RPTV, and since it's a few years old, it has an attenuator on the red component line to fix the 'red push' problem.)

Does anyone else think that AVIA has the color adjustment too high? I use the hue and color screen (with the blue filter) to get it dead on and then check the individual color bars with the 3 color filters, and they are also dead on. However, I find when watching DVDs, there really is too much color. The colors bleed when I set it to AVIA standards. I've ended up backng up the color.

Also, I find the black setting, according to AVIA, too dark. I realize that I need to keep the room light dim for a RPTV, but I have had to lighten it up some.

An interesting disc though.

speaking of color filters, the disc I was given has a blue 1 but doesn't say anything about it. do you just look thru it when at certain set-up screens or how exactly do you use these filters?

You have to be on a certain screen. The one w/ 2 color bars. If you set it correctly you should see 3 black boxes on the top & 3 on the bottom. The background should all be evenly blue. That's according to the Digital Video Essentials DVD I have. Hope that helps.

Avia does have a known problem with its color bars. Guy Kuo from Ovation Software acknowledged this and says that he corrected the problem for the Sound & Vision disc. I believe later pressings of Avia may have also been corrected.

Josh do you mean pressings of Avia after the S&V GHT disc came out were fixed or was Avia fixed shortly after it was released. I've read that Avia's greyscale is wrong but this is the first I"ve heard about the color bars being wrong. The color on my TV is great after using Avia but I did unplug two of the component cables for color info before doing my greyscale because of this.

I can't find confirmation that any copies of Avia were corrected, but I was under the impression that those issued after the S&V disc may have been.

I'm pretty sure the problem is with the color bars being too 'hot'. Avia's color bars do not match those from Video Essentials, for instance.

I'd recommend NEW "Digital Video Essentials" DVD



Check out the Comparison Chart between DVE vs. AVIA vs. Sound & Vision

I ordered my NTSC DVE copy @ DeepDiscountDVD.com for $16.48 SHIPPED!!!

Phil