provides support for all the products they sell.often receives training directly from manufacturer representatives and shares that expertise with you.meets manufacturer’s standards, from sales to service, in order to receive authorized status.In most cases we are more than a reseller, we are a direct dealer who also receives training and where possible we personally test products we sell.Īuthorized dealers like us offer peace of mind. Rapallo is fully authorized to sell products by all of the manufacturers listed on our website and in our store. Rapallo is an independently owned New Zealand company and with more than 15 years experience, we offer you both technical expertise and superior service. Even the simple color bars have unique traits that make them cleaner.” – Stacey Spears We use a custom encoder that will preserve as much detail as possible. We have built propriety tools to generate the synthetic patterns. There are a lot of subtle details that go into making them as mathematically accurate as possible, especially since you are dealing with lossey encoding. They are more accurate than the test patterns found on previous discs. “The static test patterns represent the current state-of-the-art. The 2D material will play in any Blu-ray Disc player. Note that all 3D patterns require a 3D Blu-ray Disc player and 3D television.
#Spears and munsil calibration disk software#
Every pattern was created using our exclusive ultra-high-precision software tools and represents the state of the art in video reproduction. The Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark is the most accurate and comprehensive HD test disc available anywhere.
#Spears and munsil calibration disk professional#
Whether you’re a home theater novice or a professional calibrator, you’ll find all the tests you need to set up and adjust your HDTV in the Spears and Munsil HD Benchmark. Remember that you can press “Up” on the remote while looking at the pattern to bring up a help screen.Description Spears & Munsil HD Benchmark Disc 2nd Edition Once you know which level of filter is appropriate for your display, use the instructions given for the Color and Tint pattern to set your Color and Tint (or Saturation and Hue) controls. If the red, green, and yellow bars are still barely visible through the 3X filter, continue with the calibration you should be able to get close to the correct levels.The 3X filter is very dark, so you will need to be in a dark room with your eyes completely adjusted to the light to use it. If the bars still are not black, fold the filter at the score in the center and look through both sides to form a 3X filter.If they are not black, but slightly red or green, or look a little brighter than the black background, then switch to the 2X side.The large red, green, and yellow bars on the left should turn black, and should be indistinguishable from black area around them. Look through the 1X side of the filter.The Spears & Munsil Calibration Filter is used with the Color and Tint pattern to set the Color and Tint controls (sometimes called “Saturation” and “Hue”) on your display.ĭifferent displays need different levels of filtering to do a proper calibration, so the filter allows for 1, 2, or 3X filtering. If we can find a filter that works, we will consider including one in the future. Because we don’t advocate setting Color & Tint for UHD displays, our UHD disc is sold without a filter included.
We include the instructions below for those using older TVs, or for enthusiasts who want to learn more about the history of television calibration. Manufacturers still include these controls on TVs because people are used to them being there, and some customers would complain if they were gone. More importantly if the color decoding is not right, the problems are not ones you can typically fix with the Color and Tint controls. The color decoding is usually correct out of the box in at least one of the picture modes (usually “Cinema” or some similarly-named mode). Important Note: We do not recommend changing the Color and Tint controls on any UHD TV.