[glaufman]

Thanks for the info... I do have the cal discs on their way, but I'm concerned they won't be much better for white levels than the THX disc.. I'm not talking about color temp here (6500K) but much more simplistically, the white "level." for instance...
On the THX disc they show 8 boxes with varying degrees of white and light gray... the instructions are simply to make sure "whites look white, but that all the different boxes are distinguishable from each other"... this leaves a lot open to interpretation...
Are the patterns on Avia or DVE any better?
Is there no measurement to make for how bright a white should look? I remember now that the same article I read said something about holding a 1 inch flame from a cigarette lighter 1 inch from a piece of white paper, and even though the color would be off, that was the approximate brightness you wanted...