This DVD is a must for people who are serious about getting the best picture and audio quality available from their current Home Theatre configuration. That said it is the most expensive DVD on the market today.

Unless you are a professional it is pretty hard these days to optimize the brightness, colour, contrast, sharpness and tint 'properly' on your television and let's face it with the quality of DVD's being released today they demand that your television is properly set so you can take advantage of the wonderful picture quality produced.

You may think to yourself why do I need this my television looks good to me now. In answering this I thought the same way, my picture looked good to me as well and I would be better off building my DVD collection rather than spend the money on this. What changed my mind I here you ask. Well with the DVD format with it's incredible picture quality I continually asked myself when watching them 'Could this picture get any better?'. Sure, like I said the picture looked good to me but was it displaying the picture properly , were the colours being reproduced as intended , are the contrast and brightness properly set and so on. In the end my curiosity got the better of me and I invested.

When it arrived I slipped into my Toshiba SD2107 and off we went. The DVD opens with a audio/video system tour and then discusses environmental factors effecting picture and audio quality including the effect of 'ambient light', speaker placement and even down to the colour of the paint on the walls. It's amazing how all these factors which are often forgotten about and can really effect of what you see and hear.

The DVD takes you through a step by step process of properly adjusting your colour, sharpness, tint etc etc to give you the optimum picture in Chapter 9, 'Video System Callibration'. You might remember before I said that my picture looked good to me before I used this disc, well the picture after I used this disc was nothing short of stunning. All of my settings were off to a certain degree and when adjusted properly my television produced such a vibrant picture I never would have thought possible. It's amazing just how all these adjustments relate to one another e.g. When you adjust the brightness, most occasions you also have to adjust the contrast to compensate and vice versa. The DVD provides you with a strip of blue filter which enables you to adjust both colour and tint and I must admit it was all very easy. I never would have been able to do this by myself without this disc. After you have made all the necessary adjustments using test patters, filters etc etc then the DVD runs through a variety of sound/audio clips with which you can see the difference and I must admit that the difference is jaw dropping. The colour saturation alone will make it all worthwhile.

However you will probably find that the new picture settings for your DVD will look awful on a normal broadcast channel, the colour saturation was way too high on my set for a normal tv but looks great on a DVD. You do need seperate settings for your DVD and normal tv. If you are lucky enough to be able to have different memory picture settings as most modern tv's have these days then this will not be a problem for you.

The DVD has easy to follow instructions to optimize your stereo from Dolby Pro Logic surround to Dolby Digital and THX certified systems and has a step by step process to properly configure your audio set up including chapters on Left, Right and Center channels and also the surround and subwoofer channels. I did not need to make many adjustments in this section as my settings were close to spot on already but this section is more than useful if you have or are about to purchase/upgrade your audio system.

Overall this DVD is a must if you are serious about your Home Theatre. The only drawback is the price and the fact that once you have properly made all the adjustments you have little need for it unless you buy a new tv or if someone get's their paws on your tv all mucks up all the settings again. If you can find someone who is willing to 'lend' you a copy then grab it soon, if not and if you want the best possible from your DVD format then you'll just have to shell out that hard earned cash and get your own copy. Also it is not Regionally encoded. Highly Recommended.