Just thought I'd share my experience with a cheap colour calibration solution. In my case I used a product from Pantone called the Huey. This is the site
http://www.pantone.com/pages/product...ct.aspx?pid=79
Can't help but think that most of our troubles with washed out colour and rendering is not only to do with the decoder and hardware relationship but what information the video cards feed to our monitor/TV for display. I bought my one from dick smith as a clearance stock. Ran the wizard and in a couple of minutes it made its changes, as soon as i fired up VMC live TV particularly HD looked so much more life like, skin tones are real and diverse primary colour are vivid and striking. Now much better than from my TV tuner. As a byproduct the image is now much sharper and the output from my 6 yr old DVD player is now no longer better ( Still more reliable though
). Don't think it would match professional calibration( I've never seen a before and after professional though) still for $99 was certainly worth it.
You couldn't do this with a normal PVR so I was just wondering has anybody else done this and been happy with the results
