Avia II

Avia II

Avia II
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DVD Cover Information

Artist: Artist Not Provided
Brand: Ovation Multimedia
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: AVIA II
Studio: Image Entertainment
Product features:
  • All-inclusive tutorial and home theater calibration tool in NTSC format
  • More than 200 test patterns to achieve superior video quality
  • Nearly 100 audio tones for 5.1 and 6.1 channels, plus Dolby TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus
  • Basic and advanced signals allowing the user to select the test pattern or sound tone needed for a specific calibration
  • Tutorials on various home theater components; speaker types & placement; making connections & wiring; using a sound level meter and home theater environments

Movie Reviews of Avia II

Movie Review: Great Tool for Tuning Your TV
Summary: 5 Stars

It seems obvious once you hear about it but you spend hundreds even thousands of dollars on a new TV, who's to say when it comes out of the box the settings are the best for your environment or up to movie color standards? This DVD uses a video tutorial to walk you through your TV's color, shading, and sharpness settings and even addresses your sound system. In the advanced menu the DVD offers a large variety of advanced test patterns which are explained in the PDF found on the DVD.

Personally, when I bought my new 42" LCD TV, I thought everything looked pretty good. My friend had the old Avia disc without the color filters. I decided to buy the new one to get the color filters. After making the corrections, I didn't notice a large change until I switched back and forth. Everyone on my TV looked like they had a slight sunburn and I hadn't even noticed.

If you have bought or are considering buying a HDTV, spending $40 on this DVD is a must have as it will optimize your new TV.

Summary of Avia II

AVIA takes full advantage of DVD video's interactive features. AVIA combines tutorials with professional quality test signals for fully calibrating and testing audio and video systems. Simply sit back and watch the live video presentation or get involved and select in-depth coverage of specific topics. You select the tutorial depth or calibration tool. Adjusting your audio and video system for maximum performance is easy with AVIA's step-by-step instructions. Professionals (or those who want to learn more) can directly access advanced calibration signals with on-line explanations. You'll want to use AVIA again and again to keep your system in top condition.
Avia?s latest entry into TV and audio configuration strikes a fine balance between being friendly to newcomers and satisfying to home theater gurus. Navigating the disc is easy, as it is logically divided into ten main topics that are further divided into chapters. If you are new to home theater, the first few chapters walk you through topics like Home Theater Components, Video Basics, HD Technology, and Making the Connection (hooking up your system)--all in plain English, not in techno-babble.

If you already understand the basics of home theater, it?s easy to skip to the final three chapters to tweak and calibrate every aspect of your system?s audio and video. To really take advantage of the audio test tones, you need a SPL meter, and if you don?t know how to use one, the disc walks you through the process. It also walks you through the most common video test patterns and how to use them to make proper adjustments to the sharpness, brightness, color, tint, and contrast settings on your display. The first time you calibrate your display it will look a lot different than you are used to, but resist the urge to turn the brightness up. By the end of the week, you will appreciate the improved picture and wonder how you were able to watch it before. Just be careful with the included color filters?since they lack a sturdy, cardboard liner, they can be easy to lose. --Adam Gregorich

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