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DISCWASHER 1509 Home Theater Calibration Disc | 
 enlarge | Brand: Discwasher
Category: CE
List Price: $24.99
Buy New: $2.88 (On sale from $7.62)
You Save: $4.74 (62%)
Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Electronics
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10 x 10 x 5
MPN: 1509
Model: 1509
UPC: 024856150900
EAN: 0024856150900
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | A full set of professional quality video calibration tests optimizes your viewing experience | | • | The tests enable you to correct monitor brightness, contrast, sharpness, color and tint | | • | Audio calibration tests in Dolby Digital and DTS help you achieve the optimum audio experience (phase test, sweep test, level set-up and LFE subwoofer calibration) | | • | Outstanding high-definition audio and video demo tracks illustrate the full potential of your home theater system | | • | Easy to navigate - simply insert and follow on-screen instructions |
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Product Description
This package is an amazing collection of sights, sounds and A/V tools engineered to show just how flexible and all-encompassing DVD technology can be. It provides full set of video calibration tests to optimize your viewing experience enabling you to correctly set brightness, contrast, sharpness, color and tint.Discwasher 1509 provides audio calibration tests in stereo, Dolby, Pro Logic, Dolby Digital 5.1 (AC3) and DTS to achieve the optimum audio experience. It features multiple angle viewing, multiple aspect ratio viewing, multiple audio tracks, multiple languages and subtitles, parental-controlled viewing and a complete user control.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Discwasher Yes, Parts Express No April 30, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
All of the DVD vendors charge $2.49 for shipping one DVD -- except for Parts Express and they want over $7.00. Why?
The Discwasher Calibration Disk is good, although not so good as the Avia Calibration Disk. OTOH, the Discwasher produce is 1/4 the price. Compare and choose wisely.
 only basic tests September 6, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Includes tools for setting contrast, brightness, color, simple sound connections only. Cannot test the performance of the television electronics. For that the HQV disk from Silicon Optix at $30 would be needed. If all you want is to adjust the picture, you don't need a more expensive disk. It's worth what you pay for it, despite the low absolute ranking.
Not much if you have a DLP or LCD TV December 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you have a DLP, plasma, or LCD television, I'd try something else. This disc is cheap, but not really helpful. The instructions are useless. They just give you some test screens but don't tell you how you should adjust your set. I'm pretty tech savvy, but this was not helpful at all.
 DISCWASHER 1509 Home Theater Calibration Disc April 5, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This DVD is very good! Speaking as a 'seasoned TV/computer Tech' this DVD teaches you what your control settings do and where/how to set these settings for optimum performance. Then, as an example of what you should see when you experience HiDef, this DVD has a music video for you to view as well. Compared to 'others' - this DVD out performs and you will definately end up with a better picture viewing enjoyment.
Simple Calibrations August 22, 2008
This incredibly inexpensive calibration DVD is geared towards people who want to make very simple adjustments to their home entertainment components.
I bought the disc just to see what kind of features it contained, since most of the reviews don't really go into much detail about what's on the DVD. While the DVD does have a number of tests for audio, video, and DVD player/receiver features (ie DTS decoding, multi-angle, multi-lingual, and parental lock tests), the tests are limited to making very simple adjustments that might not result in any major improvements to your television or sound system.
The DVD menu allows the user to jump to specific set of tests, like the audio test for example. Once there, the user can either automatically start a specific test or see a demo, with voice over narration, explaining what to look/listen for during the test. The narration is nice feature to have for people that are not familiar with what to look for during the test, even though the tests might seem fairly simple and straightforward to some users. Being able to access the tests in this manner is also nice in those instances when you simply want to go to the test you need, without having to wait for an explanation or a demo.
There are a number of tests for adjusting the television image including: brightness, contrast, geometry, and color. The brightness and contrast tests are both pretty good. The test for geometry (the shape of the picture on the screen) is more of a check than a test, since most users of older TVs probably won't be able to easily correct the geometry on their set...but the DVD does instruct that if the picture, a graph with circles on it, looks wrong (which is pretty subjective), to call a technician.
The color test is also a bit silly, in that it asks the user to adjust the tint and color of each image by eye. This is not a good way to adjust color and tint for a television -- most people buy a calibration disc primarily to adjust color! -- which I think is the biggest problem with this DVD. More respected calibration discs come with colored filters that the user looks through to make adjustment to the color and tint. The exclusion of these filters is the main reason I gave this disc 3 stars, since I think even a simple disc should allow a user to adjust their color correctly, instead of by guessing on something as subjective as flesh tones.
The audio tests are pretty straight forward, doing a series of phase and balance tests, as well as channel identifications, to verify that your left surround speaker is really on the left.
The remainder of the DVD tests your DVD player and receiver for a variety of options, like whether your system can decode DTS and Dolby Digital or whether your DVD player can take advantage of DVDs that allow multiple angles while playing a scene. The reality is that your system is probably already automatically using the appropriate audio encoding and you're probably not going to be using any of the other features, if you don't know whether your equipment has them or not.
If you're looking for a more extensive and comprehensive set of tests I would recommend the Digital Video Essentials series (also available on Blu-ray). There's also the Avia II DVD, which I bought and returned since I felt that for the cost that the actual product was very flawed (I posted a review...the DVD case fell apart the second time I opened it). Either way, both products allow for fine tuning your entire system with easy to understand explanations. Additionally, both contain very advanced topics and patterns that allow a knowledgeable user, with a couple of inexpensive tools, to perform technician level adjustments. Both the DVE and Avia discs are used by professional calibrators and serious home theater enthusiasts and both DVDs can result in pretty amazing improvements to your viewing and listening enjoyment.
That all said, I would not recommend the Discwasher Home Theater Calibration DVD to anyone looking to make serious improvements to their system.
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