Datacolor Spyder4TV HD Color Calibration System
The Datacolor Spyder4TV HD Color Calibration System is an easy-to-use calibration system for your home theater display as well as any other TV in your home, and is intended for use by home theater enthusiasts system installers. It provides the correct adjustments to brightness, contrast, color, tint and color temperature for your display so you'll see your favorite movies exactly as they were intended. Furthermore, a properly calibrated display can save energy and extend the life of your home theater display by ensuring that brightness and contrast settings are optimized (an overly bright and contrasty display uses more power and can lead to a shorter display life; especially for plasma displays).
- Measures settings and makes necessary adjustments to default TV settings for optimum viewing
- Sets proper color temperature and dynamic range to assure your TV isn't "overdriving" the display
- TV color calibration allows for natural colors that can reduce eyestrain and let you see video the way the director intended
- Special test pattern for Blu-ray disc players that makes it easy to optimize the movie images displayed on the TV screen
- Works with LCD, LED, plasma, OLED, CRT and Front projectors
- Software interface takes you step-by-step through your TV settings during calibration
| Requirements |
Blu-ray or DVD player Remote controls for your TV and Blu-ray or DVD player Desktop PC / laptop near your TV (Windows XP 32/64, Vista 32/64, Windows 7 32/64, Mac OS X 10.4 and higher) 1 available USB port Computer: 256 MB of free RAM, 100 MB free drive space Video card: 1024 x 768 resolution, 24 bpp color (16.7 million colors) |
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Pros
- Lightweight
Cons
- Difficult To Use
- Not Functional
- Poor Design
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Comments about Datacolor Spyder4TV HD Color Calibration System:
For authentication, my B&H Order # is 374514890, dated 2-2-12.
I have been using the Datacolor software & Spyder for at least 12 years to calibrate & profile my computer monitors for Photoshop work.
The good news is the Spyder4 colorimeter works just fine.
The bad news is the TV calibration software is inadequate for anything other than a black & white TV.
The software does allow adjustment of the black point, white point, color tone, and "tint."
However, input of the TV's model number into the software makes no difference.
The software does NOT allow adjustment of the:
1. "backlight" (i.e., true brightness);
2. red, green, and blue colors;
3. 10 point white-balance red, green, & blue values (30 values in total); or
4. Color space red, green, & blue values for Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Cyan, & Magenta (18 values in total).
If this software is intended for a moderately sophisticated home theater TV, why are there no standard RGB color tones generated and measured as is done for computer monitors?
You can make one big improvement in your TV by changing the Color Tone to Warm 2 or your TV's warmest color.
You can do an internet search to find Post Calibration Settings for your specific TV model - for free.
For my LED TV, there are 76 values that can be adjusted.
I did a Google search, found these settings, plugged them in, and the picture looks great.
If your TV doesn't look great with these settings, just reset the values back to what they were.
As a test, I displayed a few on my images on my now adjusted TV and compared each image to the same image displayed on my calibrated & profiled computer monitor.
The images look impressive on my 46" LED TV and almost as good as on my computer monitor.
I feel like an idiot for having purchased the Datacolor Spyder4 TV Spyder & software.
I am dumbfounded and astonished that a company selling what I thought was good software for computer monitor calibration could market such an utterly worthless product.
B&H, can I trade-in this worthless product for the Datacolor Spyder4 Pro Display Calibration System (B&H # DAS4P)?
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What's in the Box
- Spyder4TV HD Colorimeter
- Spyder Web Attachment
- Spyder4TV HD Software CD
- Spyder4TV HD Blu-ray Test Pattern Disc
- Spyder4TV HD Test Pattern DVD (NTSC & PAL)
- Quick Start Guide in 10 Languages
- 1-Year Hardware Warranty (2-Year Warranty for Countries of the EU)
- Free Online Support
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