SPEARS AND MUNSIL 2ND EDITION FREE DOWNLOAD

You might also want to look at the diagonals and curves in the zone plate sections nearby the four circular colored patterns in the corners as well. If your display has multiple picture memories, you can store the two calibrations in them and switch as needed. If the screen seems notably dim while viewing the Brightness pattern, such that the right-hand bars on the Brightness pattern are very hard to see once the Brightness control is set correctly, then turn the backlight up. If you never see the two leftmost bars no matter where the Brightness control is positioned, then your display or player is clipping the below-reference image data; use the Alternate Brightness Adjustment mentioned lower down. What's new New posts New profile posts Latest activity. If the display has picture position controls, you should use them if needed to center the image on screen by moving the picture up, down, left, or right until the amount of cropping on the left matches the amount on the right, and the amount on the top matches the amount on the bottom.

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Remember that help for each pattern is available by pushing the up-arrow button or pushing up on the directional pad on your Blu-ray remote while the pattern is displayed on the screen. Sharpness is generally a good thing, but not if it makes the image look strange, so the goal is to turn it up as high as possible without adding artifacts to the image.

Each mundil should look like concentric squares of increasing or decreasing brightness.

HD Benchmark 2nd Edition – Spears & Munsil

The far-right bar will be slightly easier to see than the middle-right bar. Checking the Filter Strength The colored filter works fdition showing you the blue color channel only, filtering out all the green and red.

This can take extra time.

Start by bringing up the Contrast pattern from the Video Calibration section using the Blu-ray remote. STFC Would you like it moving or kept here?

If your display has multiple picture ecition, you can store the two calibrations in them and switch as needed.

Spears & Munsil HD Benchmark: 2nd Edition Blu-ray Disc Details | High-Def Digest

The lines should look crisp and sharp, but should not have extraneous artifacts, noise, or blockiness. The original "Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark"released inoffered some excellent patterns to help setting up TVs, and ingenious test patterns to judge the performance of deinterlacers and scalers. The tutorials are still better on the Disney disc, because, well, its Disney epears, but as long as you know your Brightness from your Contrast, you should be all set.

Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. Now turn the Brightness control back up slowly until the middle-right bar just barely appears. The updated second edition adds myriad new setup patterns, and a host of new tests for 3D, refresh rates, motion interpolation, additional patterns for TV setup newbies, and more.

Using 3D movies has been our main way of judging 3D. The two ramps in the center should not have a wide solid colored area in the center, but should vary from black to full red or blue at a thin peak in the center and back to black. You will also generally see that the diagonal and curved lines look stairstepped or jagged.

You learn more about the second edition on the Web siteor you can buy it on Amazon and OppoDigital. This isn't to say it's limited to being the intro class, as it does have some great patterns for TV setup that even I use. Now, with a bevvy of 3D test patterns, we can have a more objective way to judge the crosstalk on active 3D displaysfor example. Some of the patterns here are similar to those many of us TV reviewers loved in the original disc, to see how well a TV or projector deinterlaces i.

Setting Color and Tint, 2nd Edition An in-depth look at the Color and Tint controls that gives more background and technical details for people interested in learning more about the theory and practice of calibration. The bursts should have clear, bright colors that look identical to the colors in the circular patterns next to them.

Now find the highest-numbered bar, and raise the Contrast control until that bar disappears, then lower it one notch, which should make it appear again. On the Image Cropping 24p pattern, the edges of each box should be fully visible. While sitting in your normal viewing position, turn down the Sharpness control until the halos are no longer clearly visible and the lines look smooth and not jagged.

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With each of these patterns, it will be easier to see the differences if you stay on one pattern and switch back and forth between the various color spaces, rather than running through each pattern with one color space and then moving on to the next color space. If this setting is offered, a good starting point is spesrs turn it to the middle value.

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So if you an 4: Pattern Help Text, 2nd Mmunsil All of the guide and help text from the 2nd Edition disc, in one file, with sample images.

Moving the control one way will make the blue rectangle brighter, and the other way will make it dimmer. If your projector has motorized focus, stand close enough to the screen to see the individual pixels and use the remote to focus until the pixels are sharply defined squares. Possibly one of the most important new sections, and one that's incredibly rare in the TV-testing world, is stereoscopic patterns for testing 3D TVs. There are six ramps on this pattern: