Avia Guide to Home Theater (1999) watch online HD

Whether you have a full blown home theater or just a simple DVD player and TV, you must have the AVIA Guide To Home Theater. Not only does it help you set the proper speaker levels for your home theater, it contains essential video test patterns for brightness, contrast, color, tint and sharpness that let you set your TV or monitor to industry standards and view your movies EXACTLY the way the director intended you to see them. Not only that, but ALL TV manufacturers ALWAYS ship their TV's from the factory with these settings set too high so they'll look better in the harsh store showroom lights. These are NOT the correct settings for the softer lighting in your home and the high contrast and brightness settings can permanently damage your TV tube over time. Get this DVD! It's cheap insurance for your TV and great all-purpose tool for your home theater.

This DVD is designed to teach you about Home Theater and help you choose components and set them up for maximum performance. It mainly consists of test patterns and tones for calibrating video and audio with good instructions for their use, and a few instructional videos about Home Theater components and terminology.

The disc is very good for its purpose. My only complaint is the difficult-to-use menus. They are not organized well, finding what you want is not easy, and can be difficult to bring up at all: pushing the Menu button usually doesn't do what you would expect but often restarts the current section.

Worth buying nonetheless; I give at an 8.