| Spears & Munsil High-Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Disc Edition [Blu-ray] |
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Product Details
Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, who created the highly-regarded DVD Player BenchmarkTM and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and High FidelityŽ, have applied all their technical wizardry to this Blu-ray test and evaluation disc.
"The static test patterns represent the current state-of-the-art. They are more accurate than the test patterns found on previous discs. There are a lot of subtle details that go into making them as mathematically accurate as possible, especially since you are dealing with lossy encoding. We have built propriety tools to generate the synthetic patterns. We use a custom encoder that will preserve as much detail as possible. Even the simple color bars have unique traits that make them cleaner. - Stacey Spears, author of the disc"
[Picture Quality Calibration and Evaluation Tool for Displays, Blu-ray Players and Video Processors]
(IMPORTANT NOTICE: This disc is a high-definition disc and is compatible only with Blu-ray players. It will not play on a standard DVD player.)
Product Reviews
 (5 stars) - Great Product
I used this test disc to adjust the picture of my new Pioneer 50 inch plasma TV. The test patterns allowed precise adjustment and the results were fantastic. I thought the original picture looked good, but the final results were certainly better. I highly recommend this disk to anyone who wants to get the best picture out of their TV.
(5 stars) - blue filters now included
Thank you Amazon for getting OPPO back to free-shipping status.
The benchmark BD now includes the blue filter promised by the publisher.
(5 stars) - One of the best system test/optimisation disks I have used.
The Spears & Munsil benchmark disk is outstanding. If you have never used a benchmark/calibration disk before, rest assured this one will deliver visual results. If you already have DVE or Avia, this disk may still offer some excellent test patterns.
I used this disk to calibrate and test my Epson 6500UB projector, and by the time I was done there was a notable difference in image quality. This disk will get your image looking much more natural and 3-Dimensional if you follow it correctly and have the adjustments available on your HDTV that let you take advantage of it's patterns (like color decoder, RGB cutoffs/gains, etc).
It certainly gets you in the ball park much better than most test disks. The color saturation pattern was especially well done. It got the color range maximised very easily and easily showed if it was clipping or not. As did the black level and contrast ramp tests. Basically, this disk will let you peak every aspect of your display (black level, contrast, color levels, tint, sharpness, overscan, grayscale, color decoder, chroma delay, de-interlacing, and more). If you want to take it to the next level, this disk is perfect to use before you use ColorHCFR and a colorimetre to get near perfect color levels and gamma.
The demonstration video on the disk is beautiful full HD footage that really shows what your system can do. It present a wide range of real-life locales that all show exceptional detail, natural color, contrast and subtleties. It's real treat.
It doesn't feature as many audio test as say DVE, but it features video test patterns that are every bit as good, and some that I would consider far superior to the average benchmark/optimizer disk. This is a video system benchmark, and it focuses purely on delivering in that area very well. The few audio test demonstrations include DTS Master Audio, and Dolby TrueHD audio samples. Limited, but fun little flicks.
All in all, I feel it was money well spent. If you are looking for a complete HDTV/Bluray benchmark disk, or if you have DVE already and are looking for something more, this is the disk for you.
(5 stars) - Worlds better than DVE
This is exactly what I was looking for. The first time around, I tried the digital video essentials DVD and it was pretty aweful. This one has helpful explanations and the test patterns are more up to date and useful. It helped me determine that I had a bad hdmi cable.
(5 stars) - fast delivery and a great product
Overall, this is a good disc for any electronics enthusiast. There are many designs to calibrate with easy to follow instructions. The disc helped out a lot.
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