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Digital Video Essentials - HD Basics [Blu-ray] [2008] | ![Digital Video Essentials - HD Basics [Blu-ray] [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FMBadQJeL._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Joe Kane
Actor: Sam Dalton
Studio: DVD International
Category: DVD
List Price: £19.99
Buy New: £10.59
You Save: £9.40 (47%)
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5593
Format: Colour, Dolby, Pal, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown)
Rating: Exempt
Media: Blu-ray
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 120 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 60042
UPC: 647715600424
EAN: 0647715600424
ASIN: B000V6LST0
Theatrical Release Date: March 25, 2008
Release Date: April 7, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Ships from the USA, please allow 10-14 days for delivery. Region 1 encoding requires a North American or multi-region DVD player and NTSC compatible TV. Over 2,000,000 satisfied customers worldwide.
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 Great, but... September 4, 2008
Chris A (From my undersea lair)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great start for anyone with a new HDTV or AV set up who really want the best out of it. But be warned there is a lengthy and rather poorly explained introduction. This goes straight into quite a complex explanation of the origins of audio visual standards and the fact that no TV (or very few) is truly correct. Having said that I did learn quite a lot, but I imagine few would sit through the rather monotone monologue.
The test cards are very good, but for this money it seems rather overpriced, since you can down load or create various test cards yourself.
In short this is a quick way to set up your system, but it can mostly be done for little outlay by searching on the internet if you are prepared to look around.
Does the job, but not easy to follow August 13, 2008
J. Lavender (UK)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
I purchased this blu-ray to setup a new hd tv I had purchased as I wanted to get the best out of it that I could. There is a lot of background information to do with HD and various standards, which did bore me within the first 15 minutes. So I skipped straight to the calibration section.
This section is really what you buy this disc for and so I was a little dissapointed to find the narrator taking forever to explain how to use the test screens, when really it can be explained within a few sentences. Even then, the explanation is not crystal clear and led to some confusion when calibrating my screen, meaning I would have to go back and listen again in detail to what the narrator is saying word for word. This could lead to people miscalibrating their screens, and left me a bit miffed when I was left with a dull blue-tinted screen the first time i tried it.
Once you get used to the narrator and manage get what you need to know from the excessive explanations, you will get better results. I found myself using the test screens on their own once I figured out what I was supposed to do with them.
It did take a fair bit of trial and error to get a result I was happy with as the test patterns do show the shortcommings of my tv, which means having to compromise with some calibrations. The narrator gives the impression that this is a common problem however, and that most users will face these problems as manufacturers fail to make tv's which adhere to various standards needed to reproduce a reliable image.
Overall I am pleased to have purchased this disc, knowing that I am getting much better picture quality from my new tv. For those of you that want to get the most from your own HDTV this is an essential purchase.
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