ARPRINCE Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 I recently used the THX VIDEO OPTIMIZER that comes with the Star Wars DVD. Prior to doing this, my Samsung DLP was calibrated using AVIA (last year). Is this video optimizer only for THX movies because I ended up changing color and brightness on my current configuration? Anyway, I think I'll run AVIA again and see what I come up with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Blacksmith Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 From what I understand, (I could be wrong) the optimizer is intended to help you get the settings for THAT movie. There was a thread about this a while back and I think I remember that using the optimizer from different movies will give you different results. I use the AVIA setup on my projector and though I can't adjust everything, nothing was far off. I just leave the base settings set to the best I can get with AVIA and go with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olorin Posted August 30, 2005 Share Posted August 30, 2005 Similar experience to Cal's, here. I set it up using DVE and have had no need to change it. I did need to recalibrate when I got a new DVD player, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARPRINCE Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 OK. I forgot that I changed my DVD player from the time I used AVIA. I re-calibrated again and the final figures are closed to the figures by the THX optimizer. I guess the optimizer is a good tool to use to adjust your video settings if you don't have AVIA and DVE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARPRINCE Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 From what I understand, (I could be wrong) the optimizer is intended to help you get the settings for THAT movie...... You're right about this. http://www.thx.com/mod/products/dvd/optimizerIntro.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndyKlipschFan Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 Remember too, do you listen in THX mode or DD or DTS?? If the latter it might make more sense to calibrate your speakers to a DD DTS test.. And yes, changing DVD players I would re calibrate.. I also noticed a improvement on my system picture wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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