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The overscan patterns on all three discs are pretty easy to use and equally useful. As for Disney WOW, the area for sharpness on the pattern they provide is so small that I found it completely useless. However, the pattern on AVS HD 709 was far more useful in that regard. It always looked to me like there was some inherent ringing in the pattern that made it difficult to assess what was being added by my set's sharpness setting. I was never fond of the sharpness test pattern on DVE. AVS HD 709 does not include any color filters (since it's a program you download free from the internet) though it requires a blue filter (or a TV that features a "blue mode") in order to properly set up color and tint. However, DVE includes three color filters (red, green, and blue) which are wide enough to look through both eyes whereas Disney WOW only includes one small blue color filter that you use like a monocle. I'd place Disney WOW and DVE even with regards to the patterns themselves, with AVS HD 709 besting them both. Neither is as user friendly as the flashing squares within color bars pattern found on AVS HD 709. In this case, despite the silly decision to make the contrast and brightness patterns brighten up every so often on Disney WOW, I'd rank Disney WOW and AVS HD 709 as pretty even and better than DVE.įor setting color and tint, DVE uses squares against a grey background and Disney WOW uses a bar pattern.
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It should be noted that there is an advanced static bar pattern on DVE that's more PC friendly but slightly less helpful than the flashing patterns of Disney WOW or AVS HD 709.
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It uses a series of geometric shapes that flash (similar to the flashing bar patterns of AVS HD 709), move (neat but weird at first), and brighten up (more annoying than useful) every so often. you use) are more friendly for my type of set. However, the advanced test patterns on Disney WOW (divided by TV format - plasma/LCD, CRT, projection, etc. AVS HD 709 beats them both since its brightness and contrast patterns take into account both types of sets.
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There's even a section dedicated to shill season 5 of Lost on BD.Īs for the patterns themselves, the basic brightness and contrast patterns, though simple to use, were useless for me since they don't take into account older HD sets (like mine) that default to full range (PC) rather than limited range (TV) since that means I cannot see any below black or above white content.
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This'd be no big deal if it weren't for the fact that these "features" are found in sections that are meant to inform people about HD video and proper connections. They even throw in a promo for digital copies. In fact, certain "features" on the disc are nothing more than promo spots for Disney BD's and their BD Live features. However, you can see the Disney market research team's fingerprints all over the disk. The disc is rather informative about HD video in general and is definitely more user friendly than DVE. I didn't really pay much attention to the audio tests so I'll stick to the video side. If anybody has the Home Video Essentials calibration disc as well as this, can you compare the two? If I already have the former, do I need this?My copy finally arrived yesterday and I immediately fired it up.