Readers of this magazine have long been about examining the best of audio and video ... ... if not for their own consumption, then just to better understand how various Home Theatre products get to be "the best that they can be". Regular readers of video product reviews in these pages have come to understand that NO display product can fully realize its potential until it has been calibrated in the environment in which it lives - perhaps your living room.
Clearly, not all display devices calibrate equally well. There are several factors that impact the end result...
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One Installer’s Opinion - This Changes Everything … (About Calibration)
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Everything is relative
Thanks Terry for the details you provided on the column. I am in favor of doing ISF. I am also in favor of considering consumer pockets when recommending ISF relative to the price of their TVs.
I wish one day soon your “this changes everything” would actually mean an ISF tool (and labor) that could make “relatively” economical a typical two-input ISF calibration, which at the current rates cost more than lower priced DTVs, so the general consumer embraces the concept regardless of the TV they have or the investment they made.
Allow me this analogy, it certainly feels unreasonable having to do a tune-up of a brand-new car for about the price of the car itself just to make it perform as it should out of the dealer's floor.
Regardless how good the tune-up tool is or the “art” of the tune-up mechanic could be, if a dealer requires me to pay a price equivalent to the price of the car to make it perform well I would probably be looking for another car, and if all the dealers require the same I would be wondering for how long that industry can sustain that business model.
However, since I need to drive I would probably buy the car and drive without a tune-up until it makes sense economically, which is probably why most people do not ISF their TVs, including the higher-end models on Joe-six-pack consumer-homes that consider the expense unreasonable for the benefit.
Would they need more education to embrace the concept? Yes, but it has to cost less to be more appealing to the general public on a market of price-killing TVs. Until then only those in pursue for image quality could sustain the ISF industry.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra
I wish one day soon your “this changes everything” would actually mean an ISF tool (and labor) that could make “relatively” economical a typical two-input ISF calibration, which at the current rates cost more than lower priced DTVs, so the general consumer embraces the concept regardless of the TV they have or the investment they made.
Allow me this analogy, it certainly feels unreasonable having to do a tune-up of a brand-new car for about the price of the car itself just to make it perform as it should out of the dealer's floor.
Regardless how good the tune-up tool is or the “art” of the tune-up mechanic could be, if a dealer requires me to pay a price equivalent to the price of the car to make it perform well I would probably be looking for another car, and if all the dealers require the same I would be wondering for how long that industry can sustain that business model.
However, since I need to drive I would probably buy the car and drive without a tune-up until it makes sense economically, which is probably why most people do not ISF their TVs, including the higher-end models on Joe-six-pack consumer-homes that consider the expense unreasonable for the benefit.
Would they need more education to embrace the concept? Yes, but it has to cost less to be more appealing to the general public on a market of price-killing TVs. Until then only those in pursue for image quality could sustain the ISF industry.
Best Regards,
Rodolfo La Maestra