Monday, December 12, 2005
The CALIBUG HDTV - It's Time to Calibrate Your HD Display
Posted by Jeremy Charette in "HARDWARE" @ 06:00 AM
"A properly calibrated display is like sleeping in clean sheets. You get a better nights sleep and it just feels right. In the past, you’d need to get a DVD calibration disc, like Digital Video Essentials or The AVIA Guide to Home Theate, but now, with HD displays, calibrating with DVD quality test patterns is just silly. Just plug the CALIBUG to your USB port and you instantly have access to hundreds of HD quality test patterns. The only way you could get all these test patterns in the past was via a dedicated Test Pattern Generators/Sync Generators which cost thousands of Dollars. Your computer has VGA/DVI output, which is how you will get these HD patterns on your screen."
I have to admit, at first I thought this was a joke...but the more I think about it, this is a great idea! The only difficulty might be getting your PC close enough to your HDTV to conveniently hook it up. A laptop would be easy enough, but there aren't many laptops that output at HD resolutions, so it's basically a moot point. That said, if you're tech-savvy enough to be buying a CALIBUG in the first place, you can probably figure out how to get the signal to your HDTV (if you aren't using a PC based DVR or MCE PC already).
I have to admit, at first I thought this was a joke...but the more I think about it, this is a great idea! The only difficulty might be getting your PC close enough to your HDTV to conveniently hook it up. A laptop would be easy enough, but there aren't many laptops that output at HD resolutions, so it's basically a moot point. That said, if you're tech-savvy enough to be buying a CALIBUG in the first place, you can probably figure out how to get the signal to your HDTV (if you aren't using a PC based DVR or MCE PC already).
