Avia II

Product Details

If you already understand the basics of home theater, its easy to skip to the final three chapters to tweak and calibrate every aspect of your systems audio and video. To really take advantage of the audio test tones, you need a SPL meter, and if you dont 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 filterssince they lack a sturdy, cardboard liner, they can be easy to lose. --Adam Gregorich

Product Reviews

(4 stars) - Great Product! Great Seller!
I recieved my product a little faster than I expected (even though I didn't realize it wasn't going to ship when I purchased it). Even though it said it was used, it looks like it's brand new. All the "pieces" were there and the disc looks like it's never been played at all. I would definitely buy from this seller again! Thanks for a great product and great service!

(5 stars) - Great little tool
This DVD was extremely well made, and it helped squeeze the extra performance out of my TV. It also taught me a bit about Home Theater and how everything fits together. Totally worth the money - It really does make a huge difference. I look at TVs that have not been calibrated with a tool like this and I can see the lack of detail an realism in the image. Highly recommended.

(1 stars) - Only Benefits are Color Strips & Red Push Test
A complete waste of money. Instead of purchasing the cheapest one, I picked one with the color strips.

1) The hue test indicates it should be adjusted more to the red even when already a bit too red.
2) The sharpness is best adjusted by sight during programming than with the test patterns on any pattern I've used.
3) After setting color saturation, lowering it enough to better satisfy the red push test proved to be a decent maximum setting, although it should really be a bit lower than that.
4) This test & the THX test both indicate a higher brightness than should be used. The recommended setting causes a foggy look.

The color strips were great because I could use the blue one with the free THX tests.

In summary, your eyes alone are probably the best choice. The second best choice would be the free THX test. The THX test indicates the glasses for the test are available online.

(4 stars) - Good Overall Audio and Video setup
The Avia II is a great introduction and easy to understand starting guide for someone not familiar with HT (Home Theater) systems and how to connect AVR (Audio Video Receiver), previously idenified as a stereo receiver. And for those true audiophiles it is a good review :)

There are sound tones to make sure your speakers are connected correctly and to set the levels. In addition for audio setting, I would recommend buying a SPL( Sound Pressure Level) meter which measures the loudness of sound in decibels (dBs). Radio Shack makes a very good SPL meter fro $50.
The SPL is more precise than auto-setup because you can very easily adjust teh sound level of every speaker to be exactly equal at the postion listening position or at 1 meter from each speaker.

The video setup is excellent and easy to use for calibrating just about any TV. You do not need any special tools. You need the TV remote and access to the TV setup menu.

Overall, a very good product.

(1 stars) - Save your money on this one
This video really only helps with a couple of things such as brightness. It wasn't that far off from the factory settings on my plasma tv. Don't bother with this video unless you need a $30 coaster.

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