The AVIA Guide to Home Theater
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Product Description
Tastefully designed for both beginning and advanced home-theater enthusiasts, theAVIA Guide to Home Theateris a terrific gateway to system set-up and integration--perfect for either planning or upgrading your home-entertainment system.AVIA, which was written by David Ranada ofStereo Review's Sound & Vision, takes full advantage of the nonlinear DVD-Video format. It lays out simply and clearly the basics of home theater: source components, video setup, and audio setup. Its seven chapters range in topics from home-theater components to viewing environments to system tools, and the disc features a host of professional-quality test signals for complete system calibration. Handy "hot buttons" give more depth on a range of subjects for those who want it. The disc gives insufficient weight to the importance of audio cable (and it recommends optical digital connections over the better-sounding coaxial type), but by and largeAVIAis a trustworthy and extremely informative presentation.--Michael Mikesell
Product Specification
- Actor:
- Avia Guide to Home Theater
- AspectRatio:
- 1.33:1
- AudienceRating:
- NR (Not Rated)
- Binding:
- DVD
- Brand:
- Avia
- EAN:
- 0014381586725
- Format:
- Color
Dolby
NTSC - ISBN:
- 630551982X
- Label:
- Image Entertainment
- Manufacturer:
- Image Entertainment
- Model:
- Avia
- NumberOfItems:
- 1
- PictureFormat:
- Academy Ratio
- ProductGroup:
- DVD
- Publisher:
- Image Entertainment
- RegionCode:
- 0
- ReleaseDate:
- 1999-06-08
- Studio:
- Image Entertainment
- TheatricalReleaseDate:
- 1999
- Title:
- The AVIA Guide to Home Theater
- UPC:
- 014381586725
- DVDLayers:
- 1
- DVDSides:
- 1
Customer Reviews
AVIA Guide outdated and useless with todays TV's
This DVD is badly outdated and should be removed from sale.It is intended for use with CRT based TV's, both regular picture tube and the outdated CRT based projection TV's.It really does nothing but mention that "in the future" LCD based TV's will be around.It does nothing to explain or adjust for HDTV.One major fault I find is that this is a DVD and as such plays from your DVD player into the DVD input on the TV.My HDTV setup uses 4 different inputs:DirectTV via HDMI inputDVD via component input...
10/25/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
An Amazing Program
I got this DVD after reading dozens of glowing reviews. Now that I've used it, I am thrilled to have this DVD in my collection. The tests set up in such an intuitive manner, with helpful instructions on how to use each one. A complete walk-through takes you through the basic adjustments in detail. I was amazed at how out-of-line the picture on my television really was!The difference now is amazing!5 stars for this amazing program!...
10/10/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Wonderful tool - Had my system tuned up under an hour
The tools on the CD are easy to navigate and the tones and patterns were extremely helpful in fixing some out of phase errors and channel balancing. I was suprised about how much better my system sounded after using these tools. Well worth the $$....
8/31/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Avia Guide to Home Theater
Product vidio calibration tools very useful.Most of the tutorials are extreamly basic and somewhat dated in content....
8/24/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
Good - However there is the THX Optimizer for free
This gets 4 stars because it did work well.I used this DVD to set up my new HDTV and was impressed with the results.I then wrote down all the new settings.I reset the TV back to the factory settings and tried the THX Optimizer which is included on many DVD's such as "Star Wars".I used the the video tests and was surprised to see they resulted in the same settings.The THX Optimizer however does not come with the colored filters.For those of you who have this DVD, try the THX one for yourself and...
7/29/2006 12:00 AM | All Customer Reviews
