Created by home theater industry legend Joe Kane, HD Basics is the definitive High Definition home theater calibration tool. It promises to improve your picture and give you an understanding of the concepts that are vital to getting the most out of your HDTV.
Easy to use menu system 25 minute 'quick set-up" option including an in depth description and explanation of how to use specific test patterns to calibrate your display Audio calibration test signals Descriptive text in the menu to help navigate each option A 90 minute overview of the basics of HDTV Introduction to the world of creating HDTV programs Audio commentary by Cinematographer Allen Daviau and Joe Kane.
REVIEW
Huh? I am not a geek when it comes to technology, but I do know a DVI from an HDMI. 90% of this product takes you from some interesting information to the mind numbing detail. After several passes, I was able to set the brightness and contrast, but I could not figure out what I was even shooting for with the color settings. I would say, put the money on this toward the $300 for a pro to come to your home. Sure they will set it up in 10 minutes, but it beats the hour plus I spent and still don't know if I am even close.
Created by home theater industry legend Joe Kane, HD Basics is the definitive High Definition home theater calibration tool. It promises to improve your picture and give you an understanding of the concepts that are vital to getting the most out of your HDTV.
Easy to use menu system 25 minute 'quick set-up" option including an in depth description and explanation of how to use specific test patterns to calibrate your display Audio calibration test signals Descriptive text in the menu to help navigate each option A 90 minute overview of the basics of HDTV Introduction to the world of creating HDTV programs Audio commentary by Cinematographer Allen Daviau and Joe Kane.
REVIEW
Just Received Item Today. Here's my Review... AWESOME! I thought my TV was well calibrated before I bought his product (I used to sell televisions)but I was wrong. The dvd does a great job of explaining exactly what to do with each test setups which would otherwise be complicated without the great explanations. The HD-DVD version is very well set up and has very well organized menus. You can even calibrate your sound system with many different tests. The DVD provides information on everything from ambient light to even the density you should build your walls in your home theatre setup!
Whether you know nothing about home theatre setups or know everything this DVD is essential to perfect picture quality. I appreciate the value of my home theatre investment much more now that I have it properly calibrated. MUST BUY.
You have to love digital cables It's a shame DVI doesn't support audio also; it likely means that if you're in the market for this cable you're also going to have to find a 25' audio cable (probably digital RCAs or Optical). The great news is that this cheap alternative seems to work just as well as all the rest. I'm using it and loving it and still had enough cash in my wallet to seek out the aforementioned audio cable!
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REVIEW
Revelatory. Truely Revelatory. If this is not the future of Drum&Bass, then it is the future of Jam Rock. The two genres sound incongruent, but the revelatory sounds of Fosforo stand to testify that they are not.
Fosforo's catchy Reggae/Rock/MiddleEastern Drum&Bass grooves sometimes expand as if they are trying to reach your ears from across an other-worldly desert. Other times they hit you like pop music popcorn that jumps at your face for a moment, and lodges itself in a brain crevice for the rest of your irelicious day.
Their music is purely electronic from the synth bass down to the d&b rhythms. What seperates them from the pack is the fact that they do it all live with improvisation and songwriting skills dressed to impress. DJ Cezone holds down the ever expanding sounds the band produces as he plays a kit-drum that is rigged for electronic beats that he loops and samples as he pounds them out. Behind him, PMA/Edwin Moses lays fat & furious bass lines that will rumble out of bedroom windows and irritate neighbors down the block.
Riding high on top of these "onda proxima" elements comes guitar/singer/songwriter Rafi Benjamin who aims to trip you out with his dubby guitar hooks, and sometimes Dylanesque word play. On "Watch Your Back, he sounds ready for radio play as he warns:
"Watch your back.
Watch your backpack.
Here comes himself policeman
With him shackle, clack de clack, clack, clack."
Other times, he clearly challenges listeners with a lyrical poetry that is sadly too often missing from today's pop-electronica. Equally impressive is the fact that he bridges cultures and erases borders as he sings in English, Spanish, and Hebrew, and he does so with a firm ability in each language.
If there is one complaint I have with this truely stunning debut, it is that is misses what this band can do live. No two shows this band plays sound alike. Live, they constantly change up their sonic punch to continually suprise their fans in ever supprising ways as they wax and expand on their punky reggae jungle.
If you're a DJ looking to pick up some sick tracks to wig the crowd, this is a golden challice. I don't understand how a band this good who is this imaginative, original, catchy, and ambitious all at the same time can get overlooked by the music industry, but so far they have. Get this album now, and be one of the first diciples to drop tracks and spread the gospel of a band that will one day be recognized as one of electronic music's most important innovators.
