Disney WOW: World of Wonder (Single-Disc DVD)

I ordered this product in the BluRay 2 disc version at 5pm - and recieved it the next day! Great service from Amazon (Prime) and for $2.99 extra shipping that is impressive.What to expect:I immediately wanted to pop the disc in and check it out. My immediate concern is regarding the Image Retention i see on my plasma from running the Disney channel in standard def. I told my wife about using the HD disney channel to fill the screen but i guess i dont know what im talking about. Anyway, there is a tool on this disc called "PIXEL FLIPPER" which adresses this type of concern. This is basically a colored snow pattern flipping every pixel on your screen 29 times per second. To use the "PIXEL FLIPPER" tool they recommend running it for an hour mininum and over night if needed. Well, my Sony BluRay player has a feature which turns itself off if it detects no activity for about 15 or 20 minutes. (In fact they all do) You cannot turn this off on my unit. Well, due to the way Disney implemented this tool, i am unable to use it because the BluRay player perceives this screen to be "paused" and after 15 minutes it does it's job and shuts down. I cannot use this tool for more than 15 or 20 minutes!!! This was the main reason i bought the disc.I already used the AVS Forums HD 709 calibration disc for free. I am thinking about getting the DVD version and playing it through my Xbox which doesnt have this non-sense. Not sure who to blame - sony for not allowing you to toggle this feature, o Disney for not thinking it through. tough call.As far as the disc is concerned, the menus are very attractive and easy to navigate around and are eye appealing. It really is stunning so far, makes you want to play with the different areas and explore. I found the more advanced tools and though i have only had this disc for one day, i am happy so far that it will be useful to do a fairly decent calibration and i am looking forward to using the Surround Sound tools to tune up my audio system too.I simply had to dock it one star because ALL HOME THEATRE equipment has screen savers and power management turned on by DEFAUlT. You HAVE TO INTENTIONALLY turn this stuff off to run this tool for one hour much less over night (my Sony bluray player thinks its paused and static). Not good!! Everything would be okay if the player only detected some activity from the tool. If anyone knows a work around i would love to hear from you. Good Luck!p.s. i am running current firmware from Sony.

I was skeptical at first buying this product, considering it was Disney, I questioned just how professional it may be. I was debating between this one and the DVE HD Basic configuration disc. Overall, I went with this one by judgment of reading the previous reviews and the ratio of good reviews compared to the DVE Disc.Overall, I am a tech savvy person, I have been working in the technical realm for over 8 years now. This configuration disc does the job, and the results are WoW, very noticeable. I am completely satisfied with my purchase. This disc can be used for LCD, Plasma, OLED, CRT, and even projectors for configuration.The discovery portion of the disc goes through learning HD basics. It walks you through how to connect your system, to screen size, to how far to sit from the system, and many more informational tips. If you are tech savvy, you can skip through the discover portion and go straight to the optimization menu.From here, you can go to the basic / easy optimization menu. The menu walks you through step-by-step of each configuration setting, ranging from brightness, contrasts, sharpness, color and hue, and others. Each section is broken down into subsections. For instance, the brightness section is broken down into explanation, then instructions, then calibrate. The instructions are clear, concise, and to the point and tell you exactly what you need to look for in order to make changes to your television. Finally, you go to the calibration section and the displayed reference chart is displayed for you to make your changes to your system.The advanced optimization goes a little deeper into making changes, and the instructions here are very well explained. I recommend doing the basic / beginner settings first, then make the advanced changes.The audio tuner helps to make sure that your audio is in sync with the video. If you have an A/V system connected, you will have to make the changes on that vs. your TV.Once you finally get everything tuned, I recommend taking a picture on your phone of your settings. If your power goes out, your TV will reset to factory conditions. This makes for easy configuration of your system again vs. running the whole disc again. Once your system is finally tuned, there is an “experience” section of the disc that will display Disney snippets of HD movies so you can see the difference.Overall, I am very pleased with this product. The instructions were very simple to understand, and applying them to the overall calibration of my 70” Sony TV was easy. The end result was a very noticeable difference in overall color and HD display. Even though the product is made by Disney, the results are professional and very easy to configure for any user. I would recommend this product to anyone who wants to get the most from their HD TV System.

I bought this calibration disc to better the colour reproduction of my HD Samsung tv as well as ensure that my surround sound speakers were set up correctly. I did download the AVSHD709 disc for free from the following site last week and its pretty damn complicated, even following the pdf intructions for it:avsforum dot com/t/948496/avs-hd-709-blu-ray-mp4-calibrationAfter spending around 4 hours navigating through all the instructions, explanations and calibration pages on the disney WOW bluray i am incredibly happy with the results.Instructions are clear and precise and providing you follow the instructions to the T, you will get fantastic results. The disc covers basic, intermediate and advanced options and some things require specialist equipment such as a sound pressure measuring device (for the speakers). For sorting out my surround sound speakers i just downloaded a decibel measuring app and held it in front of my face, i then slowly went through all the tests to ensure that all my speakers were exactly the same volume from my seating position.Some of the most useful test cards that you get on the bluray allow you to perfectly set up the colour and hue of the tv with the use of a blue transparent piece of plastic in the centre of some card that comes with the bluray. Its hard to explain but by looking at Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, Cyan and Magenta through a piece of blue plastic you will see everything on your screen in grey. You simply have to ensure that the top and bottom vertical strips on the screen match colours as best as possible. There are two strips for sorting out the strength of the colour and two for sorting out the hue (how green or how red the picture should be).The bluray also has an option that allows you see any distortion on the screen or varying colours due to not sitting directly in front of the tv. It displays a pure megenta colour on screen and if there is any kind of discoloration it means you need to rotate the screen slightly towards your view.To help set up true colours there are sections with mountain scenes, an ocean with a coast, a photo with a woman holding different coloured peppers and a photo of a fruit and vegetable market stall. There are many HD demos on the disc that you can enjou watching after you have done all the fine tuning and calibrating. Toy Story looked absolutely phenomenal after I spent the best part of 3 hours doing all the calibration tests provided.My calibration settings afterwards:For a Samsung flatscreen LCD tv:After Calibration:Surround Sound VolumeFL 2FR 4CENTRE 2.5SL 6.5SR 4SUB -6.5EQBass +10Treble +5Picture:StandardBacklight 10Contrast 100Brightness 44Sharpness 76Colour 52Tint G 50 R 50Black Adjust - offDynamic Contrast - offGamma minus 1Edge Enhancement - OnWhite Balance:R offset 17G offset 25B offset 34R Gain 36G Gain 34B Gain 42Colour Space - CustomRedR30GreenG40Blue30YellowR54, G54CyanG44, B44MagentaR12, B21Hope people find them useful, and remember that the colours and brightness arent meant to melt the retinas from your eyes, natural and realistic colours will appear dull but your eyes will quickly addapt and you will appreciate decent blurays much more!

I have used this with 5 TV's now and people that didnt think it was worth it now realize what a difference this makes. The first time through the basic setup it will take about an hour as you will be learning how to use it and get the most out of the disk, after that you can do a TV in about 15 minutes. I would recommend having one of these in your collection just to get the full potential out of the expensive TV screen you have just brought. I had set the TV's up to what i thought was close to the cinema settings but this made me think how far out i was. The TV is now able to show the pin stripes on suits where as before i thought it was just black. Little changes make a big difference.On a side note: the player you use to set the TV up should be able to show the full dynamic range. I tried this with a PS3 to start off with and the disk was not showing "beyond Black" and "whiter than White", There is a setting that allows the full range to be displayed through the PS3 and the 3 blu-ray players i have tried have all been no problems at all with it.

This is a good basic calibration tool. Unless you want to be buying light meters and such this will give you a pretty good picture quality and explains a lot of the theory behind it. Has a good set of clips of disney movies so you can test your picture out and hear your surround sound in full glory. Admittedly some of the features are pretty useless to the layman, especially all the sound frequency stuff, but all in all a good package. The pixel shifter is another reason I bought this and is a good idea for anyone who owns a plasma tv. It can solve your image retention problems and worked for me!

useful and easy product to calibrate the tv. it can be basic simple or professional installer standard depending your needs

Very useful tool. Although admittedly havn't done the full in depth calibration yet as ive not had tome but the standard calibration off it has proved very good.