Stacey Spears and Don Munsil, who created the highly-regarded DVD Player Benchmark™ and Progressive Scan Shootout at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity®, have applied all their technical wizardry to this Blu-ray test and evaluation disc. "The test patterns on this disc represent the current state-of-the-art. They are cleaner and more accurate than the test patterns found on previous discs. There are a lot of subtle details that go into making them as mathematically perfect as possible, especially to ensure that they retain all their precision after lossy encoding. We have built proprietary tools to generate patterns and a custom encoder that preserves much more detail. Even ordinary patterns like color bars have unique traits that make them cleaner." - Stacey Spears, co-creator.

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The Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Edition is currently available from Amazon.com, OPPO Digital, OPPO UK, Kalibrate Limited (UK), Markertek, Crutchfield, RapalloAV (NZ), Scenic Labs, SpectraCal, and AV Science for $25.00 US.

Features:

- Calibration patterns for all major display controls

The User's guide for the Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark Blu-ray Edition is available in PDF format here.

Choosing a Color Space - This article explains how to choose the best color space output from your Blu-ray Disc player.

Setting Color and Tint - This article explains how to properly set the color and tint control on your display.

Home Theater Geeks Podcast - Getting the most our of your HD system and the Spears & Munsil HD Benchmark Blu-ray Disc.

Technical Notes on the Patterns - This article provides more information on the setup and evaluation patterns.

Setting the Contrast Control - This article explains how to properly set the contrast control on your display.

Setting the Brightness Control - This article explains how to properly set the brightness control on your display.

Using the Calibration Filter - This article explains how to use the Spears & Munsil calibration filter.