Modern TV-sets are capable of displaying near perfect images. High-Resolution digital TV-reception and modern display technology allow this amazing technology into your home like never before. Unfortunately, in many homes, the factory settings of the TV leave much to be desired! The TV may have been purchased cash-and-carry in order to make the cheapest possible deal. Or, it was delivered to the home, but the installer had neither the time nor knowledge to adjust and optimize the device to the home environment. You would expect that a new TV is preprogrammed to give the best results. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Save AVS HD 709 Calibration Disc to get e-mail alerts and updates on. 13 product ratings - Spears & Munsil HD Benchmark and Calibration Disc 2nd Edition New. The AVS HD 709 HDTV calibration disc is a versatile and valuable addition to any home theater system. The associated thread and PDF manual is a wealth of calibration information unto itself. The associated thread and PDF manual is a wealth of calibration information unto itself.

The factory settings (aka. Torch Mode) are not conducive to the home environment as they are usually made to please the eye when seen in the brightly light store. The difference in a home environment is huge. In this article,we show you how to calibrate your display at no cost, be it a TV or a computer monitor, through visual settings only.

It’s simple and straightforward! Just follow the steps as suggested.

Check out our very basic YouTube Instructional Video on how to Calibrate an HDTV Display using the Spears & Munsil Blu-ray. Basic HDTV Calibration YouTube Video There are professional installers that make TV and PC-monitor adjustments at high cost because: (1) It's time-consuming to fully calibrate a TV. (2) they use an expensive spectrophotometer/colorimeter that helps them adjust the colors exactly. A perfect situation would be to have an Intel Computer stick or a mini PC connected to your TV in order to display the test images.

If you have a Smart-TV, you can go directly to the websites suggested in this article in order to display the proposed pictures. Because there are so many links to various other sites in this article, embed the URL into text links for most of them so you know where it is you're navigating to.

This is the easiest way since there is no need to download or to copy the images. You can also buy calibration discs, like or Disney WOW. These are great resources, but this article is focusing on free, web-based options. If the TV cannot go directly to the image websites, the first requirement is to have enough PC-knowledge to find these or other useful test images online and download them in *.jpg or *.png format and put them on a flashdrive.

These can then be read by most modern TV’s or, in the worst case with the lack of a USB input, the images can be put on a DVD and then viewed using a DVD player. Before adjusting your screen, it's important to have realistic viewing conditions. Avoid as many environmental disturbances as possible. It is a good idea to have two adjustments saved in your TV or monitor, one for night (low light) and one for day (high light) conditions. You can save and usually even label these as custom presets so you don't forget what they are for. [Step 1] Brightness, Contrast and Tint settings The first settings to adjust are the brightness and contrast.

The best way to do this is with a particular black and white image only. These are the most important calibrations. The colors are set afterward and it will be much easier to do when the saturation and contrast are already set. If you can go online with your TV (Smart TV) or monitor, click on the following image, or go to. The instructions on how to do the adjustments can conveniently be read on the image itself. At the top of the image, you see a scale from black to white with 25 shades marked from A to Z. Here you have to work with brightness and contrast until you see them all just right.

In addition, the two spheres and the upright bars show the extreme ends of the gray-scales further apart. The two spheres have three circles; you should barely be able to recognize ABC and XYZ. The same applies to the upright A and B / Z and Y. Again, you need to adjust the brightness and the contrast of your monitor until tones that are lighter than full black are clearly distinguishable and tones immediately darker than very white are distinguishable from full white. Alternatively, you watch this and use the B/W-image, but adjust Brightness and Contrast the way we explained it here. In case you prefer to use the Youtube videos to do the calibrations, it is a good idea to stream them from your smartphone to your TV using a Chromecast- stick.