THX Tuneup App

[fuzz092888]

I don't think anyone here has posted anything about this, but if I'm wrong I apologize for the double post.

I was wandering around the interweb and came acrosse the THX tuneup app. Looks pretty cool and is a steal at $1.99 IMHO. It calibrates displays, stereo, or 5.1 systems and has a few nifty extras like trailers, the THX deep note, a moo (as in cow) tone, and an ask Tex function where you can ask THX questions.

The only downside are the cables needed to attach your iOS device to your receiver. The iphone cable is ~$40 and the lightening adapter is about ~$50. However, if you have an apple TV, I don't think you need anything else.

There should be an Android version as well, but I'm not sure if it has released yet.

THX Tune-Up iOS app will have your new HDTV looking better than ever | The Verge

 

[agarwalro]

The cost of Lightening to HDMI dongle severely hinders the app.

Also, would'nt we prefer to calibrate the player->display rather than phone->display?

 

[fuzz092888]

Works through airplay as well if you have a receiver capable of that, not sure what kind of quality to expect. I mean, you could always go through ebay and a third party vendor for those adapters and pay much much less, but quality is always a worry. I bought a third party minidisplay port to HDMI adapter for like $5 and it works fine as far as I can tell, which isn't to say I disagree at all. The price makes it almost useless unless you have airplay or already have the adapter.

Either way it runs through the receiver so I wouldn't expect the differences to be that great whether going through a blu-ray player or from the phone.