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CalMAN Video
Calibration Software & Hardware (at exclusive CurtPalme.com
prices!)
July 14, 2008
CalMAN Standard
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Regular price: $199 USD
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CalMAN is the world's most flexible, powerful, and easy to use software tool for
greyscale & colour calibration! It is the only calibration package that grows
with you! The easy to follow wizards in the "Basic" mode are perfect for novice
users just starting out while the flexibility of the "Design" mode gives
professionals the control they need.
 We've worked out an exclusive deal for our members to bring you
CalMAN and these professional quality meters at
prices lower than what everyone else pays anywhere on the internet! Buy direct
at prices lower even than buying off the official CalMAN website!
What is CalMAN?
CalMAN is color calibration software for the calibration of high definition
televisions and other video displays.
Does your high definition television set look
"wrong? Do people's skin tones look sunburned or
vaguely greenish? Are details hard to see in dark
scenes? Do you have trouble seeing details in bright
scenes, especially ones in involving things like
snow? If you answered "yes" to any of the above,
then chances are that your HDTV is in need of a
calibration and CalMAN can help! It provides
everything you need for home theater calibration:
- It has the powerful features needed by
professional display calibrators.
- It has simple, easy-to-use wizards that
walk you step by step through the entire process of making your HDTV display
accurate color, even if you have never attempted to calibrate a video
display before.
Why use CalMAN instead of the various free solutions available?
There are many reasons why it makes sense for notice to expert users alike to
use CalMAN instead of the various free solutions available:
- Even with a copy of our
popular
Greyscale &
Colour Calibration for Dummies guide in front of you, calibrating a display for the first time can be daunting. CalMAN has step-by-step
wizards to lead a complete novice through the process. At each step, there
are detailed instructions on your screen telling you exactly what to do now.
If you want, you can stop and read a whole tutorial on the underlying
theory, but you don’t have to. You just push the buttons the wizard tells
you to push. Think of CalMAN as an interactive version of our
Greyscale &
Colour Calibration for Dummies guide taken to a much higher level.
Everything is tailored to your exact setup and needs as you step through the
calibration.
- SpectraCal are an OEM of X-rite
and therefore have access to a much lower interface in the EyeOne Display 2
/ LT / Pro sensors than other software (such as ColorHCFR). CalMAN can therefore
properly support Plasma with all meters. Unlike other software, CalMAN
also supports all meters in contact, non-contact, and direct modes.
- A great deal of work has gone into making visual controls that let you steer by what you see. A good example is the
Bullseye Color chart (seen on the right). You don’t have to understand how the Color
Decoder in your display works to set it using CalMAN. All you have to do is get the dot into the
bulls-eye. If you tweak a control and the dot moves further away from the
center, tweak the control the other way.
- CalMAN automates the process for you. If
you’ve ever watched someone calibrate their TV for the first time, one
hassle they have is running back and forth to advance the DVD to the next
pattern, start a read on their meter, etc. In CalMAN (particularly if you’re
using the free CalMAN pattern generator), we do it all for you. You click
your mouse on the control button,
and CalMAN displays the pattern and performs the read, or the whole sequence
of reads, or a continuous read so you can watch your results change as you
adjust the display.
- CalMAN is accurate and reliable. It
is the same software that many of the pros use. You could call in a professional calibrator
and there's a good chance that he’d be using CalMAN and going through the same steps you go through.
- If you continue your interest in
calibration, you won’t outgrow CalMAN. We have seen many users who start off
calibrating one TV in their basement, and pretty soon they’re over at their
friend’s house, and then they’re thinking about going into the business.
CalMAN supports everything from the least expensive Spyder meters to the highest
of the high end. And the software is designed to help you along the way. It
adapts as your skills improve, and its teaching materials help you learn.
Trial version
CalMAN is available for free evaluation.
Try it today!
More
Information on CalMAN »
Professional Quality
Meters
The authors of
CalMAN also offer three high-end meters from
X-Rite for
video display calibration sold directly under
licence by the manufacturer at exclusive
CurtPalme.com reduced prices (lower than you'll find
elsewhere!). All three pair extremely well with
CalMAN as the authors are an OEM of X-rite so
they have access to a much lower interface with
X-Rite meters (including the
EyeOne Display 2 / LT). This means that they are
able to get
more out of the meter than any other calibration software!
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The EyeOne Pro
The EyeOne
Pro is an excellent meter for all uses. In
addition to its superb accuracy – the EyeOne
is as accurate as most meters selling for
thousands of dollars – it is the most
versatile meter available anywhere. No
matter what kind of display you are
calibrating – CRT, plasma, LCD, front
projector, rear projector – you can
calibrate it effectively with the EyeOne
Pro.
If you own only one meter, it should
probably be an EyeOne Pro. If you own more
than one meter, one of them should be an
EyeOne Pro. It is hands down the number one
meter choice of professional calibrators.
More information »
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The Chroma 5
The Chroma 5 is the big brother to the
X-Rite EyeOne Display 2/LT that we feature
in our
Greyscale &
Colour Calibration for Dummies guide. The main advantage the
Chroma 5 has over the Display 2/LT is that
the sensors are temperature compensated, so
the Chroma 5 is more accurate with changing
room temperatures. The Chroma5 goes lower
and can be calibrated to tighter standards.
Like the EyeOne Pro, but unlike the EyeOne
Display 2/LT, the Chroma 5 can be National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
certified.
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The Hubble
The Hubble is an astonishingly good
non-contact meter. It is unsurpassed for
calibrating light-controlled front projected
displays. You can point the Hubble at a
screen all the way across the room and use
the Hubble's laser tracking to zero in on
the area you want to calibrate. The Hubble
has an impressively narrow field of view (5
degrees – which corresponds to a 6" target
all the way across the room).
If you are a professional calibrator, the
Hubble gives you capabilities that were
formerly attainable only with gear costing
ten times as much or more.
More information »
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Confused? See our FAQ: Which Meter is Right for Me? »
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best that 1080p Blu-ray has to offer in terms of audio and video
quality. Every movie collection must have a handful of these
films!
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Mummy Returns (Universal)
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
Batman Begins (Warner)
Video: 4.5/5
Audio: 5/5
John Mayer: Where the Light Is
(Sony BMG)
Video: 4/5
Audio: 5/5
Persepolis (Sony)
Video: 5/5
Audio: 4.5/5
Jumper
(Fox) Video: 4.5
Audio: 4.5
Rambo (Lionsgate)
Video: 4.5 Audio: 5
Cloverfield (Paramount)
Video: 4 Audio: 5
(Region free)
Bee Movie (DreamWorks)
Video: 5 Audio: 4.5
Youth Without Youth (Sony)
Video: 4.5 Audio: 4.5
Saawariya (Sony)
Video: 5 Audio: 4
(Region free)
Alien vs. Predator: Requiem (Fox)
Video: 4.5 Audio: 4.5
(*NOT* Region
free)
The 6th Day (Sony)
Video: 4.5 Audio: 4.5
(Region free)
Ice Age (Fox)
Video: 5 Audio: 5
(*NOT* Region
free)
I, Robot (Fox)
Video: 4.5 Audio: 4.5
(*NOT* Region
free)
I Am Legend (Warner)
Video: 5 Audio: 5
(Region free)
Enchanted (Walt Disney)
Video: 5 Audio: 4.5
(*NOT* Region
free)
No Country for Old Men (Walt Disney)
Video: 5 Audio: 4.5
(Region free)
Shoot 'Em Up
Video: 4.5 Audio: 5
(*NOT* Region
free)
Live Free or Die Hard
Video: 4.5 Audio: 5
(*NOT* Region
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Ratatouille
Video: 5 Audio: 5
(*NOT* Region
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More Top A/V Quality Blu-ray Discs »
Recent and Upcoming Blu-ray Releases:
July 01, 2008
Batman: The Movie (Fox)
Batman: The Movie (Limited Edition) (Fox)
Ganges (BBC)
Gangs of New York (Walt Disney)
Get Smart's Bruce and Lloyd Out
of Control (Warner)
In the Line of Fire (Sony)
Korn: Live at Montreux (Eagle
Rock)
Mad Men: Season One (Lionsgate)
Meet the Browns (Lionsgate)
Point Break (Fox)
Sex and Death 101 (Starz)
Vantage Point (Sony)
John Mayer: Where the Light Is
(Sony BMG)
July 08, 2008
Batman Begins (Warner)
Batman Begins (Limited Edition
Gift Set) (Warner)
Batman: Gotham Knight (Warner
Premiere)
Chicago and Earth, Wind & Fire:
Live at the Greek Theatre (Image)
The Moody Blues: Lovely to See
You - Live at the Greek (Image)
Roy Orbison: A Black & White
Night (Image)
The Ruins (Paramount)
Sleepwalking (Starz)
July 15, 2008
The Bank Job (2008) (Lionsgate)
College Road Trip (Walt Disney)
Dragon Ball Z: The History of
Trunks/Bardock: Father of Goku (FUNimation)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(Warner)
Shutter (Fox)
Step Up 2: The Streets (Walt
Disney)
July 22, 2008
21 (Sony)
The BBC High-Definition Natural
History Collection (BBC)
Daft Punk's Electroma (Vice Records)
Earth: The Biography (BBC)
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
(Sony)
I Know What You Did Last Summer
(Sony)
I Still Know What You Did Last
Summer (Sony)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (City
Lights)
The Mummy Returns (Universal)
The Mummy (1999) (Universal)
The Perfect Storm (Warner)
The Scorpion King (Universal)
Urban Legend (Sony)
July 29, 2008
Beowulf: Director's Cut (2007)
(Paramount)
The Big White (Echo Bridge)
Clear and Present Danger
(Paramount)
Dark City (New Line)
Doomsday (Universal)
Drillbit Taylor (Paramount)
Harold & Kumar Escape From
Guantanamo Bay (New Line)
Harold & Kumar Go to White
Castle (New Line)
Human Body: Pushing the Limits
(Image)
The Hunt for Red October
(Paramount)
The Lost Boys (Warner)
Lost Boys: The Tribe (Warner)
Mortuary (Echo Bridge)
Never Back Down (Summit)
Patriot Games (Paramount)
Perhaps Love (Tai Seng)
Robin Hood: Season One (BBC)
Salvage (Echo Bridge)
Shine a Light (Paramount)
Stargate: Continuum (MGM)
The Sum of All Fears (Paramount)
The Tiger Blade (BCI)
Top Gun (Paramount)
Vengeance (2006) (BCI)
August 05, 2008
The Counterfeiters (Sony)
Epic Conditions (Madacy)
Lonesome Dove (Genius)
The Mist (Weinstein)
Nim's Island (Fox)
Starship Troopers (Sony)
Starship Troopers Trilogy (Sony)
Starship Troopers: Marauder
(Sony)
Wild China (BBC)
August 12, 2008
7 Seconds (Sony)
Beat the Devil (Blu-ray Only)
Belly (Lionsgate)
CJ7 (Sony)
The Doors (Lionsgate)
Felon (Sony)
Half Past Dead (Sony)
Last Time I Saw Paris (Blu-ray
Only)
Maximum Risk (Sony)
The Secret (2008) (Image)
Smart People (Walt Disney)
xXx: State of the Union (Sony)
August 19, 2008
Camp Rock (Walt Disney)
Hannah Montana And Miley Cyrus:
Best Of Both Worlds Concert Tour (Walt Disney)
Justice League: Season One
(Warner))
The Life Before Her Eyes
(Magnolia)
Nixon: Director's Cut (Walt Disney)
Prom Night (2008) (Sony)
The Proposition (First Look)
The Scorpion King 2: Rise of a
Warrior (Universal)
Street Kings (Fox)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor
Chronicles - The Complete First Season (Warner)
More Blu-ray Releases »
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