VIDEO CALIBRATION EXPLAINED Click on which photo you think is correct! |
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It is relatively easy to look at a well reproduced, perfectly calibrated picture and know that it really looks great. If you use a calibrated display to watch an Action DVD, you will find yourself getting caught up in the action of the movie and may unwittingly grip the arm of your chair during a chase scene, just to hang on. If you are watching a suspense Thriller, you will find yourself unknowingly holding your breath and will feel your heart beat quicken and blood pressure rise as the stalker works his way toward the basement hideout.
In this nouveau-real environment, it's easy to get caught up in the action. In fact, it is the whole "Escape" that makes the adventure worth taking. Poet and author Samuel Taylor Coleridge called it "The Willing Suspension of Disbelief", meaning that we voluntarily allow ourselves to be brought into this manufactured world for a short while, just for the experience of it.
However, the "Willing Suspension of Disbelief" implies that the environment be believable as a prerequisite. Image quality issues will cause us to lose our ability to accept what we are seeing as real. An image that does not appear realistic, that does not appear like anything we could experience, will make it difficult for us to believe we are a part of the world we are watching. Have you ever found yourself "falling out" of the suspension of disbelief due to distractions in a movie theater? Although those transient distractions are an inconvenience, image quality issues are a subconscious distraction that is ever-present, and they affect the suspension of disbelief during every experience.
Listed above are some common display device issues that affect the believability and realism of the image. These issues cause us to lose the ability to "Suspend Disbelief" and can prevent us from getting caught up in the plot of a grand adventure. Click on each of the visual images above for a description of what you are seeing in the picture
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