Customer Rating: 
Summary: Like a brand new TV
Comment: I used the SpyderTV to calibrate my 2 yr old Panasonic plasma (which I had originally calibrated with the Avia DVD) and I thought I was watching a brand new TV when I was finished. The software is easy to use. I strongly recommend calibrating in a dark room as indicated in the manual. I does make a big difference.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It takes a drak room to do correctly!
Comment: I have calibrated about a dozen TVs with mine.
Ambient light WILL affect the finial out come of the procedure!
The only other thing is to make sure you follow the steps carefully,
If you zig when you should of zaged you get to start from the beginning. John
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth the money
Comment: Used on Sony Bravia LCD and got same results as factory default settings except for tint which was badly biased to red. Managed to get a better picture using trial and error (by varying things like backllight and sharpness which are not evaluated by spydertv). Tech support is a joke. Don't waste your money!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Color Blind
Comment: I'm in the midst of auditioning LCD panels and the local ISF certified guy wants $350 per panel to calibrate them. I like TV and everything, but there's just no way that I am going to spend $350 on TV that I might possibly keep.
Still, the store settings on any two panels have two problems. First, they are amped up beyond compare as the TV vendors compete to be "who's the brightest" on the lit showroom floor. Sitting in my living room, they are far far too bright to watch. Second, they display colors totally differently. It's just hard to compare to 2 sets that are calibrated so differently.
Now the TVs that we are looking at cost a pretty penny, and it seemed that a couple of hundred dollars to inform the decision was a good idea, just like the hundred dollars for an HDMI splitter seemed like a good idea. The splitter was a good idea, the Spyder TV Colormeter not so much.
I calibrated 2 panels with this product. Two things are true about the calibrations. First, they do not look at all the same. The Sony panel has red shifted flesh tones while the Sharp looks cold and sterile. Second, they look way way worse than before the calibration. After 20 minutes of watching Casino Royale, it was time to revert back to a toned down version of the factory defaults for each.
At first I thought that I had not followed the instructions right. Maybe it was not dark enough. Maybe the sensor was not positioned right. Having done the process several times, I can state categorically that while the colorvision Spyder TV may not deliver good results, it is consistent in its delivery of bad results.
I simply cannot recommend this product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worked Great on Mitsubishi WD65732 DLP HD TV
Comment: I used this unit to calibrate my Mitsubishi WD65732 DLP HD TV and was surprised at how good the picture looks after the adjustment. I first went through the tv manual to make sure I understood all the various adjustments the tv makes and wrote them down on a spreadsheet so I could study them and make sure I knew how the language related to the SpyderTV adjustment language. Once I did that and marked down the adjustment ranges, it was a breeze to run the software and make the adjustments. It even creates a pdf file at the conclusion for record purposes and future comparisons. Some of the adjustments for color temperature were surprising, but the bottom line is that the picture looks great!
Summary: Like a brand new TV
Comment: I used the SpyderTV to calibrate my 2 yr old Panasonic plasma (which I had originally calibrated with the Avia DVD) and I thought I was watching a brand new TV when I was finished. The software is easy to use. I strongly recommend calibrating in a dark room as indicated in the manual. I does make a big difference.
Customer Rating:
Summary: It takes a drak room to do correctly!
Comment: I have calibrated about a dozen TVs with mine.
Ambient light WILL affect the finial out come of the procedure!
The only other thing is to make sure you follow the steps carefully,
If you zig when you should of zaged you get to start from the beginning. John
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not worth the money
Comment: Used on Sony Bravia LCD and got same results as factory default settings except for tint which was badly biased to red. Managed to get a better picture using trial and error (by varying things like backllight and sharpness which are not evaluated by spydertv). Tech support is a joke. Don't waste your money!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Color Blind
Comment: I'm in the midst of auditioning LCD panels and the local ISF certified guy wants $350 per panel to calibrate them. I like TV and everything, but there's just no way that I am going to spend $350 on TV that I might possibly keep.
Still, the store settings on any two panels have two problems. First, they are amped up beyond compare as the TV vendors compete to be "who's the brightest" on the lit showroom floor. Sitting in my living room, they are far far too bright to watch. Second, they display colors totally differently. It's just hard to compare to 2 sets that are calibrated so differently.
Now the TVs that we are looking at cost a pretty penny, and it seemed that a couple of hundred dollars to inform the decision was a good idea, just like the hundred dollars for an HDMI splitter seemed like a good idea. The splitter was a good idea, the Spyder TV Colormeter not so much.
I calibrated 2 panels with this product. Two things are true about the calibrations. First, they do not look at all the same. The Sony panel has red shifted flesh tones while the Sharp looks cold and sterile. Second, they look way way worse than before the calibration. After 20 minutes of watching Casino Royale, it was time to revert back to a toned down version of the factory defaults for each.
At first I thought that I had not followed the instructions right. Maybe it was not dark enough. Maybe the sensor was not positioned right. Having done the process several times, I can state categorically that while the colorvision Spyder TV may not deliver good results, it is consistent in its delivery of bad results.
I simply cannot recommend this product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Worked Great on Mitsubishi WD65732 DLP HD TV
Comment: I used this unit to calibrate my Mitsubishi WD65732 DLP HD TV and was surprised at how good the picture looks after the adjustment. I first went through the tv manual to make sure I understood all the various adjustments the tv makes and wrote them down on a spreadsheet so I could study them and make sure I knew how the language related to the SpyderTV adjustment language. Once I did that and marked down the adjustment ranges, it was a breeze to run the software and make the adjustments. It even creates a pdf file at the conclusion for record purposes and future comparisons. Some of the adjustments for color temperature were surprising, but the bottom line is that the picture looks great!