Why Calibrate?
When movies and TV programs are produced, transferred from film, broadcast or cut to DVD, the process is precisely monitored on video displays calibrated to industry standards. Your video display can accurately reproduce the full, original quality of those programs only if it is calibrated to the same industry standards. You can enjoy the full quality capabilities of your new (or older) TV, monitor, or video projector with professional calibration. Your display, the final step in a precisely calibrated video distribution system, can do full justice to the high quality video signal. It can give you picture quality approaching, or even exceeding, that of the local cinema theater.
Movie makers and recording engineers follow specific industry standards to capture and record the sound (Dolby, DTS, and THX). If your sound system and listening room are professionally calibrated to accurately reproduce that industry standard sound, you will be overwhelmed with the experience and sense of “being there.” You will hear the soft rustle of leaves in the distance, helicopters will fly right over your head directly in sync with the movie, and voices will be crystal clear. You won’t have to turn it up louder in the quiet parts of the movie to hear what they’re saying, and then turn it back down again during the action scenes anymore. If your audio system isn’t calibrated, you’re being robbed of the full experience the director and audio engineers intended.
TASC Design engineers are certified in Video and Audio Calibration by the Imaging Sciences Foundation (ISF) and the Home Acoustics Alliance (HAA) respectively. For more information visit www.imagingscience.com and www.homeacoustics.net
