Digital Video Essentials Calib. DVD

[BrettD]

Does anyone know if the newest calibration DVD produced by Joe Kane of Video Essentials is on the market yet?
Also, anyone who has used the initial disc of Video essentials or the AVIA disc, if you'd please post your experience and honest appraisal of your chosen disc, we'd all appreciate it!
My Hitachi RPTV HD monitor is a little ovcer a year old and I still haven't done any "tweaking" to it yet. It sure could stand a bit of help, now that I have A HD STB and receive half a dozen digital/HD OTA broadcasts. I'm hoping to do something in the tweaking area brfore the Superbowl!
Thanks!!   :rolleyes:

[drgingras]

Not available yet, but supposedly will be available sooner than Avia2.

You could keep tabs on the HomeTheaterSPoT , a few others have also inquired there.

As to the VE vs Avia, I think it's more of a personal preference thing. I rented them through Netflix and enjoyed using both. Bought Avia mainly because of availability. VE has become somewhat scarce since it went out of print.

Dave

[borghe]

The one thing that I like Avia for over VE is that it comes with all three color filters. That's about it. Although IIRC VE has a more accurate audio setup.

[Pat]

I have both, and borghe is right, Video Essentials is better for sound, but has a number of errors in the video section.  Avia is better in the Video section.  Last I heard, there was just one small error in his many test patterns.

If I were to choose just one, it would be Avia.

[Greg Oman]

I'd agree, I prefer the Avia (I have both as well) for the video and VE for audio, but if I could only have one, I'd go Avia.

Greg O.

[BrettD]

Thanks for all the input, folks! I appreciate the guidance.