

If you are new to calibration, or would like to perform a more detailed and in-depth set of adjustments, a complete guide to doing a basic calibration is available on the Spears and Munsil web site:, in the Articles section. If you have some experience using video calibration discs, you will probably find that you can use these patterns to do a quick set of adjustments by just selecting each pattern in order, optionally reading the help text, and making adjustments to the display and/or player controls. You can also move to the next or previous pattern using the Left and Right buttons on your Blu-Ray Disc player remote you do not need to exit back to the menu to change patterns. Choose an appropriate color temperature modeĮach of the patterns on this disc has a help section that can be brought up by pressing the Up button on your Blu-ray Disc player remote.Correct issues with clipping of highlights.Set the main picture controls: Contrast, Brightness, Color, Tint, and Sharpness.The Video Calibration section of this disc contains just the core patterns needed to do the most common calibration operations on a consumer display. With this product, the end results seem incorrect and that's before considering the fiasco of a filter that doesn't work with mainstream displays.Thank you for purchasing the Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark, Second Edition! We believe this is the most comprehensive and accurate suite of video and audio tests available, and we hope you will find it to be a valuable addition to your video library. Most of us though should be able to get an outstanding picture without one. If you must go down the calibration route, I recommend getting a professional to do it. Spears & Munsil claim that it is your display that doesn't work with their product but a Panasonic Plasma is a mainstream product it strikes me as odd that it would not work with it. This means that the colour and tint will always be wrong. all black) yet no matter what you do, black bars are always prevalent. What you should see are no bars on the left-hand side of the colour test (i.e. Worst of all, the blue filter specs that come with the disc do not work at all. To begin with, you need to spend a significant amount of time figuring out what exactly to do and the results are strange to say the least (Sharpness = 79?). There were however a few moments on certain blu-ray discs on my settings where the colour looked incorrect (eg murky skin-tones, inappropriate olive tints at times) and I felt a calibration would remedy this. I foolishly bought it to try and "improve" what was already a very fine picture on my Panasonic Plasma that I obtained myself using the Cinema mode as a template.
