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Monitor calibrator question...
- Thread starter kam03
- Start date
I have seen a lot of post about the Xspider (think that is what it is called) but these people are getting them to set up their HD tv's.
The original was just for CRT and LCD monitors...the big thing is when you read about these things some of them talk about the original sensor and say that brandX sensor is faster and better. Hell it gets confusing that the original xspider was $150 now they are talking about 350 to 1100 for the TV versions with software.
I think you can get an original Xspider pro for about $100+ online.
please post your findings and success with whatever you get.
Hope someone who has one post info as well.
Hey check the thread below
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1166367
The original was just for CRT and LCD monitors...the big thing is when you read about these things some of them talk about the original sensor and say that brandX sensor is faster and better. Hell it gets confusing that the original xspider was $150 now they are talking about 350 to 1100 for the TV versions with software.
I think you can get an original Xspider pro for about $100+ online.
please post your findings and success with whatever you get.
Hope someone who has one post info as well.
Hey check the thread below
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1166367
I think the poster above is thinking of the Spyder 2 Express http://www.colorvision.com/product-mc-s2e.php which is one of the lower cost options. The hardware colorimeter itself is good but I'm not too wild about the limited "Express" software. I use a Spyder 2 colorimeter in combination with Coloreyes Display Pro software and get great results...the good thing about the Spyder is that it's popular enough to be supported by several 3rd party software packages.
There is some debate about that....Colorvision sells a "Spyder TV" package but the software will only recognize the "TV" colorimeter even though it appears to be the same as the one used for all of the monitor calibration packages....whether it really is the same is what the debate is about. It is possible to use the regular Spyder 2 colorimeter with 3rd party software to calibrate tv's....but it's more difficult since you will need either a test pattern generator (big $$) or a dvd with test patterns and the 3rd party software is generally much more complicated to use than the integrated "follow the prompts" Spyder TV package. Check the avsforum calibration subforum for more info.joemama thanks for clearing this up for me.
kam03 make sure and check the link I posted its where this is discussed in depth.
joemama is this hardware good enough to do Plasma and LCD TV calibration?
edit- If you use a HTPC for your tv media then matters are simplified and the Spyder 2 should work fine for you.
So they are saying that the TV version is NOT going to work with the pc screen software.
How about the other way around will the TV version set a pc monitor correctly?
I saw a link from AVS last week showing an $1100 package for the spider but did not read any details.
Funny that the link was to their site and it looked like the TV version with a different probe.
Now its not anywhere on their site.
How about the other way around will the TV version set a pc monitor correctly?
I saw a link from AVS last week showing an $1100 package for the spider but did not read any details.
Funny that the link was to their site and it looked like the TV version with a different probe.
Now its not anywhere on their site.