Overview

Calibration menu provides synthesized audio and video signals designed to set up and test your home theater system
Learn what you need for today's Hi-Def technology
Easy-to-follow menus lead you directly to the information you want to know about

Essential Info

The Avia II A/V Calibration DVD is the ideal tool to help you understand and optimize your home theater system, whether you already own one, or are planning to. With tutorials on home theater basics, in-depth information about audio and video topics and advanced digital test tones and patterns, this DVD can help you get the performance you paid for.

What's Included

Avia II A/V Calibration DVD

More Info

Avia II is an all-widescreen, all-multichannel update of the classic Avia Guide to Home Theater, incorporating dozens of new test patterns and audio test signals. Avia II also retains the live tutorial and setup instructions that made its predecessor so easy to use, and supplements those with information on the new HD technologies.

Avia's intuitive on-screen interface lets you easily explore and control the program using your DVD player's remote control. The main menu gives you easy access to all the topics of the Avia II DVD. Just select a subject area and you'll see a submenu of topics so you can skip ahead to only the information you want. Or, if you prefer, simply start from the beginning and have it run its full course.

Plus, a calibration menu lets you select tutorials and new, digitally synthesized audio signals and video patterns designed specifically for setting up and testing home theater systems. Use this section along with a sound pressure meter and the included red, green and blue color filters for testing and adjusting your system.

Avia II works on the NTSC standard, will not work on PAL, and is Region 0 (no region limits).

Does Avia II work on 1080i/720p?

Avia II's test material is in widescreen, anamorphic standard-DVD format. In order to use the tests at 1080i/p or any other HD format, it would need to be passed through an upconverter that can either be freestanding or incorporated into the screen or player, but signal accuracy cannot be guaranteed through such a conversion. On the other hand, any inaccuracies introduced would equally be applied to any movies or other program material similarly upconverted, so all of the basic test signals and most of the advanced test patterns should remain usable and may provide useful tests of HD-screen and upconverting-player performance as intended. An HD version of Avia II, optimized for Blu-ray or HD-DVD playback into digital displays, is under development.

Note: Only unopened, factory-sealed DVDs may be returned for refund/credit.

Audio Tests

AVIA PRO: Test Tone Categories
All in Dolby Digital AND DTS, 5.1- and 6.1-channels (matrix)
Setup Tones:
Channel ID
Main-Channel Balance
Speaker Phase
Subwoofer Balance
Subwoofer/Crossover Blend
Rattle Test
Distance Compensation
Absolute Polarity
Reference/Test Tones:
Sinewave Frequency Response Sweeps
Frequency Response 1/6-octave Steps
Wideband Pink Noise
1/3-octave Pink-Noise Bands
1/3-octave Pink-Noise Bands 1 kHz upward/downward
Low-frequency Warbles 220 Hz to 20 Hz
Noise Test
Excess-Noise Test
Decaying Dither Test
Digital Black
Multichannel Amplifier Overload Tests
Subwoofer Output Overload Tests
DSP Ambience Clicks
Imaging Tests
Speaker-Comparison Tests

Video Tests

Temporal Dither and Color Separation Artifact Detection
Display Panel Uniformity
Display Contrast (On/Off, ANSI, Multi-check, etc.)
Light output
Panel Response Lag Time
Color Gamut Test
Color Wheel Speed Measurement
DVD Player Layer Change Delay Measurement
Color Upscale Error Test
RGB Legal, Y/Cb/Cr Bowties for Delay Measurements
Luma and Chroma Moving Zone Plates in Video and Film Motion
Chroma Sweeps & Multipulses (Including Polyphasic sweeps to Nyquist Limit)
Luma Sweeps & Multipulses (Including Polyphasic sweeps to Nyquist Limit)
Variable Intensity Color Bars
Vectorscope Grid Test
Above White Signal Handling
Below-Black Signal Handling
Black and White Clipping Tests Built into Multiple Patterns
Black Level Checks built into Gray Windows
Monotonicity Tests to Single Bit Count
Color Decoder Accuracy Checks
DVD Player Pixel Cropping
Gamma Response and Linearity to Light Test
Grayscale Banding
Grayscale Windows from 2.5 to 107.5 IRE
Automated Grayscale Measurement (when used with compatible instrument)
High Resolution Focus Patterns
Saturation and Hue Checkerboard
Scaler Light Linearity
Scaler Pixel Mapping
Screen Hotspotting Check
Tinted, Multicolored, or Variable Sized Hatches for RGB convergence
Variable APL DC Restoration
Variable Count Checkerboards
Checkerboards with Deep and Shallow Ramps
Variable Size Circlehatches

Specifications

Specifications
Manufacturer:	Ovation Software
Manufacturer Product No.:	AVIA II DVD
Video Format:	DVD

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