anyone use Avia Guide To Home Theater or Digital Video Essentials?

[Mega2000]

i want to dial my home theater in and was wondering if either of those DVDs are woth it?

 

[cochese]

I've got access to three different discs, the Avia guide, the Sound and Vision HT tune-up (also by Ovation) and DV essentials.

They are all good, and there's quite a bit of overlap. Avia is basically a more advanced version of S&V HT tune-up, so if you're not super technical and don't need all the extra tones/patterns etc, go for that. The S&V disk was the only one to have the cool extra Dolby demo's (I think). Also the S&V tune-up disk is a little cheesy in my opinion. The DVE disk is great if you're not super technical and offers good coverage of, well...the essentials. They're all 3 good and depending on how technical you want to get, any will suffice. You can find them for fairly cheap if you look around online...

later...

 

[bpape]

While they are no replacement for a full blown calibration on the video side nor a true room analysis on the audio side, for the money, they'll get you through the basics and yield an improvement (on the video side anyway) worth their cost.

 

[jeffsg4mac]

Mega, at this time DVE is better than AVIA as it is more up to date. You can read a review I wrote a while back here if you like.

 

[Mega2000]

thanks, i just ordered DVE on ebay for $16