This set-up and calibration disc is indeed a very useful tool to set your TV up in such a way, that your picture will be much improved at the end of the process. It has a full collection of well explained adjustments and tweaks that will reset all of the major elements of your set, so that they will come as close as is possible to the industry "Standard".
Most TVs (notoriously, sets from the USA) are sold with the brightness, contrast and colour adjustments set far too high. It is all designed to make you notice them, that they have an eye-catching "pop" to them, so you notice one that catches your eye, in a sea of dozens of other TVs. But when you buy it and get it home and rub this disc through it, you will be amazed at just how far off your settings will be.
Some have inferred that this set is only good for Cathode-Ray TVs. This is not so. The truth is that, no matter what type of set you are using, be it CRT, LCD, or Plasma...the principles the brightness/contrast ratio you need to achieve are still the same, the level of colour saturation will still be the same. And when you consider now that ALL PAL TVs are multi standard and so easily NTSC capable, there are more adjustments and refinements you can make to improve the quality, than you ever could before on UK a TV.
The only downside to this particular set is that perhpaps we get just a bit too much information given to us. It does drag on a little.
Joe Kane is a legend in this part of the market. We already had the "Spears & Munsil" Bluray calibration disc for our PS3's, but along the way...we have managed to get this, and his LASERDISC VIDEO ESSENTIALS.
Great set. Worth getting.
