Digital BW, The Print

Those of us who shoot video these days (and most photographers are obliged to) soon run into the issue of not owning a high priced video reference monitor. Using an affordable display for this is the only choice, but calibrating it is critical to it serving the purpose. Datacolor has just released Spyder4TV HD, which will calibrate video reference displays, home theaters, and plain old TVs, including DVD and Blu-ray drives for an amazingly low price. So this may not be of professional interest to all of you, but its potentially of interest even to those who watch TV instead of producing it.

http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/datacolor-releases-spyder4tv-hd/

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager


Datacolor
5 Princess Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
609.924.2189
www.datacolor.com

Phone: 207.685.9248
Mobile: 207.312.0448
Fax: 207.685.4455
Email:  cdtobie@...
Skype: cdtobie



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ColorHCFR is free


On 28 Mar 2012, at 20:21, C D Tobie wrote:

> Those of us who shoot video these days (and most photographers are obliged to) soon run into the issue of not owning a high priced video reference monitor. Using an affordable display for this is the only choice, but calibrating it is critical to it serving the purpose. Datacolor has just released Spyder4TV HD, which will calibrate video reference displays, home theaters, and plain old TVs, including DVD and Blu-ray drives for an amazingly low price. So this may not be of professional interest to all of you, but its potentially of interest even to those who watch TV instead of producing it.
> 
> http://cdtobie.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/datacolor-releases-spyder4tv-hd/
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> 
> Datacolor
> 5 Princess Road
> Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
> 609.924.2189
> www.datacolor.com
> 
> 
> 



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On Mar 28, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Steve Kale wrote:

> ColorHCFR is free

Indeed. And they even have pirated support for some of the older Datacolor devices. But you still need a device; and the price of Spyder4TV HD is less than most devices, and includes easy to use software. Those who prefer to build their own solutions will get much more entertainment value out of ColorHCFR. And this list is, by and large, composed of those who like to roll their own. 


C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager


Datacolor
5 Princess Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
609.924.2189
www.datacolor.com

Phone: 207.685.9248
Mobile: 207.312.0448
Fax: 207.685.4455
Email:  cdtobie@...
Skype: cdtobie



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Can I use Spyder4TV HD to calibrate a monitor that cannot accept a feed from a Blu-ray player? I want to calibrate our Sony HD Broadcast monitor which is connected to our Final Cut Pro system via HDSDI. I would need a file containing the calibration targets that would be imported into Final Cut.


-John



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 From: C D Tobie <CDTobie@...>
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Affordable calibration for Video Reference Monitors
 

  

On Mar 28, 2012, at 3:41 PM, Steve Kale wrote:

> ColorHCFR is free

Indeed. And they even have pirated support for some of the older Datacolor devices. But you still need a device; and the price of Spyder4TV HD is less than most devices, and includes easy to use software. Those who prefer to build their own solutions will get much more entertainment value out of ColorHCFR. And this list is, by and large, composed of those who like to roll their own. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager

Datacolor
5 Princess Road
Lawrenceville, NJ 08648, USA
609.924.2189
www.datacolor.com

Phone: 207.685.9248
Mobile: 207.312.0448
Fax: 207.685.4455
Email: cdtobie@...
Skype: cdtobie

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On 03/28/2012 10:04 PM, C D Tobie wrote:

> Indeed. And they even have pirated support for some of the older
> Datacolor devices. But you still need a device; and the price of
> Spyder4TV HD is less than most devices, and includes easy to use
> software. Those who prefer to build their own solutions will get much
> more entertainment value out of ColorHCFR. And this list is, by and
> large, composed of those who like to roll their own.
>
> C. David Tobie

"Pirated" as in Roy Harrington writing an alternative driver for Epson 
printers?


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>>"Pirated" as in Roy Harrington writing an alternative driver for Epson 
printers?

I don't know. Is it necessary to use intellectual property without permission to write Epson drivers? HP sends me updated info on how to access their wide format printers, but I suspect that I signed a document long ago, when I was working with them on Z series development, to get that access, and would be bound by restrictions if I published software that used it. I haven't looked into how this works with Epson. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Mar 29, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Ernst Dinkla <e.dinkla@...> wrote:

> 
> "Pirated" as in Roy Harrington writing an alternative driver for Epson 
> printers?

CalDisc by CalMan (pretty easy to pull the video off but the menu system between colours etc is DVD operated so any DVD player application should be able to run off an ISO copy of the disk)

But this is all waaaay off topic for this board.  Pop over to the AVS Forum and check in with the calibration section there.


On 29 Mar 2012, at 01:19, John Custodio wrote:

> Can I use Spyder4TV HD to calibrate a monitor that cannot accept a feed from a Blu-ray player? I want to calibrate our Sony HD Broadcast monitor which is connected to our Final Cut Pro system via HDSDI. I would need a file containing the calibration targets that would be imported into Final Cut.
> 
> -John
> 
> _
> 
> 



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>>Can I use Spyder4TV HD to calibrate a monitor that cannot accept a feed from a Blu-ray player?

Well, you need some source for the disc images. If not a DVD or BluRay, then you could use any source that can play the test images, which could be chapters on any video source you would care to calibrate, even YouTube. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Mar 28, 2012, at 8:19 PM, John Custodio <custodiojohn@...> wrote:

> Can I use Spyder4TV HD to calibrate a monitor that cannot accept a feed from a Blu-ray player?

>>CalDisc by CalMan (pretty easy to pull the video off but the menu system between colours etc is DVD operated so any DVD player application should be able to run off an ISO copy of the disk)

If he had a DVD player app, he wouldn't be asking, as he could run the Spyder4TV HD DVD from that source. 

C. David Tobie
Global Product Technology Manager
Imaging Color Solutions
Datacolor inc. 
cdtobie@...
www.datacolor.com

On Apr 10, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Steve Kale <stevekale@...> wrote:

> CalDisc by CalMan (pretty easy to pull the video off but the menu system between colours etc is DVD operated so any DVD player application should be able to run off an ISO copy of the disk)

My point was that any machine can be used to get the ISO and that this can then be played from the machine that doesn't have the DVD drive.

Anyway, as I've said, here's not the place to be discussing video monitor calibration.

On 10 Apr 2012, at 23:48, Cdtobie wrote:

> >>CalDisc by CalMan (pretty easy to pull the video off but the menu system between colours etc is DVD operated so any DVD player application should be able to run off an ISO copy of the disk)
> 
> If he had a DVD player app, he wouldn't be asking, as he could run the Spyder4TV HD DVD from that source. 
> 
> C. David Tobie
> Global Product Technology Manager
> Imaging Color Solutions
> Datacolor inc. 
> cdtobie@...
> www.datacolor.com
> 
> 



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