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draganm
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:20 pm Post subject: Blue Ray test pattern disc? |
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Does anyone know if it's possible to purchase a disc with built in test patterns, especially grid like "torture tests" on Blue Ray? Just the disc with no associated hardware.
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Nashou66
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
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Location: West Seneca NY
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tse
Joined: 03 May 2006
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Location: Sweatbucket, Fl.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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That is an amazing disk. I burned it with my regular DVD burner and it plays at 1920 x 1080P on a Blue Ray player. How they do that?
Scott
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Zolzar
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I second the AVS709HD disc. Easy to burn and works extremely well. Certainly a must for a HD setup. Especially when it comes to squeezing the most out of focus for HD material.
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ChrisWiggles
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 2:33 am Post subject: |
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I second/third/fourth/whatever the AVS709 disc. Great little disc. But it does rely on you have an AVC-HD compatible BD player (which is pretty common)
I also heartily recommend the Spears & Munsil Blu-ray disc, which will play in any BD player, so is more versatile out in the field. It's not a calibration disk, so lacks the full complement of patterns of the 709 if you're trying to calibrate, but it's my go-to test disc for BD, and also has some excellent test footage which I like both for being natural, and being locally shot (so I know that it really looks like as a reference). Well worth the price, IMO. I like that it's quick to navigate and has all the basic patterns you need for basic system analysis and basic calibration stuff and sanity check. I rarely use any other of my shelf of various discs and patterns.
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Spanky Ham
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Stacey mentioned putting some lighthouse pictures from his Red camera on the disc. Did he add these? I think Stacey wanted to create a disc with no compromises and it looks like he actually achieved that.
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mc86
Joined: 20 Sep 2008
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Location: pittsburgh, pa
TV/Projector: ECP 4500 (Vidikron box), ECP4500+, wanting 07MS/07MTS, evaluating pc soft-blend
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Fearless leaders: interesting -- I don't own any BR setup materials yet and don't see any stickies or FAQs (aside from setup/calibration in the "advanced proceedures" area: http://www.curtpalme.com/Advanced_Procedures.shtm). Has anyone, recently, put together a summary ranking of good sources or some sort of precis on this? A guide to the options, if you will. Maybe a dream list of all the patterns, sources, footage types, etc. and then a comparative checklist against such a list?
Sorry if this exists at AVS, but I don't goto their much now that I've read 90% of every ECP-related post archived there...too much great stuff here! 
Matt
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draganm
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| Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 7:15 pm Post subject: |
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| ChrisWiggles wrote: | | I second/third/fourth/whatever the AVS709 disc. Great little disc. But it does rely on you have an AVC-HD compatible BD player (which is pretty common) |
that and a software engineer to help you navigate the process of downloading and burning it.
Looks like my Panasonic BD80 player would also prefer the HDMV version.
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ChrisWiggles
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| Spanky Ham wrote: | | Stacey mentioned putting some lighthouse pictures from his Red camera on the disc. Did he add these? I think Stacey wanted to create a disc with no compromises and it looks like he actually achieved that. |
No lighthouses, but the footage on the disc is Red camera footage.
The lighthouses disc is a different disc. I don't have that disc because, well, if you've seen one video clip of lighthouses then you've kind of exhausted the excitement of lighthouses...
Here is some of the 4096x2304 footage viewable at that resolution on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5edN-1OLKHA
It's about the best quality footage I've ever seen Youtube deliver
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Spanky Ham
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Who cares about a Red camera? Tell me when he gets a Green Latern. 
I just checked out the footage and it does look great. Well about as good as my crappy LCD monitor can display it.
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