Avia II
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Movie Reviews of Avia II
Movie Review: Avia II DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
The DVD was beneficial and my Panasonic Plasma is setup perfectly. Color, tint and temperature. There are a lot of video test screens that really aren't beneficial to the average user....great if you have all the test equipment.
The audio portion was excellent for setting up and balancing my 5.1 surround system. Easy to follow and nice to have if you are serious about your home theater.
Movie Review: Helps, but doesn't fully solve setup issues
Summary: 2 Stars
The biggest flaw in this DVD is that its instructions do not necessarily match the setup options available on your TV. Terms like color and white level and sharpness and red push are used but not fully explained, so if your TV uses slightly different terms, like tint, you may be left having to guess how to produce the desired changes. Real pros will go right to the service menu, but the rest of us are left fumbling.
I realize that nobody is expecting Oscar-winning thespians in a setup DVD, but these two guys couldn't deliver a line in a UPS truck. Still, the guy with his shirt un-tucked clearly looks the couch potato part and I get warm feelings of trust when I hear him speak, based on the many hours he obviously spends in front of a wide screen.
On the plus side, even their somewhat hurried cue-card presentations of color and TV technology are nonetheless good enough that you can probably skip the test patterns and follow advice such as turning down the sharpness (which most people adjust way too high) and get a decent picture using your own eyeballs.
But that brings into question the price. I don't feel ripped off, but neither would I quickly recommend spending this amount of money when you can find much of the same info (absent the useful test patterns) online for free.
Movie Review: save your money
Summary: 2 Stars
might not be completely useless, but it's close enough. Maybe I'm being a little harsh, because I did wait long enough after buying my TV to have tweaked the settings to my satisfaction without this disc. The biggest reason I got it was to check the color accuracy, and I find their method of doing so extremely flawed. In fact, I found it useless.
You're looking through colored gels at a color test pattern with blinking squares in the center, and you really can't tell what the heck you're adjusting, or if it's getting better or worse or what. Just play a bunch of DVDs and watch a lot of broadcast channels and tweak until you get the skin tones right on most of them, it'll be better than this.
Movie Review: Unimpressed
Summary: 2 Stars
I own the original DVD and thought I would update to this 2nd version. A mistake. The quality of the DVD is poor in both video quality, menu quality, and it comes free of charge with some bugs. The explaination of the test paterns was better in the original, in fact, after attempting to use this DVD, I went back to the original to make sure I had not screwed things up too much.
Bottom line - if you have access to the original buy it, borrow it... But if you do not, this one is better then nothing.
Movie Review: Disappointing
Summary: 2 Stars
The the disc holder was broke, the case fell apart in moments and the color filters were small, cheap and lying loose in the case. I've never seen a DVD case fall apart on it's own before. The DVD content tries to go in depth but is really only good for the 6 basic image setups and basic surround sound checks. Not worth the $40. I'm going to return it and buy the "Sound&Vision Home Theater Tune-Up" that has better reviews and is half the cost.