Submitted by John Sciacca on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 8:36am

Reposted with permission from Residential Systems

I recently changed my cell phone's incoming message alert to a sonar ping. ("Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please..." And, yest it has already become as irritating as you might think.) So, last night I received a "Piiiing!" at about 11:00 p.m., with some information that was just too good not to share...

Back in 2008 THX started certifying video calibrators with their Professional Video Calibrator Training Program. Call it wanting to take a chunk out of Joel Silver's ISF pie or just doing their part to ensure that consumer displays are dialed-in as closely as possible to the studio monitors that films were mastered on. (What you can't call it is George just looking for another revenue stream; he no longer owns THX...Don't worry about George though. He'll do fine with Star Wars 1-6 comes out on Blu-ray next year.)

A huge part of the class is the instruction given by calibration legends, Gregg Loewen and Michael Chen. (Chen is better known in calibration circles as "Michael TLV" ("The Laser Video") and also happens to be a stormtrooper in the 501st Badlands Garrison.) Chen and Loewen are entertaining and uber-generous with advise, allowing calibrators to benefit from their years of experience earned the hard way through thousands of calibrations.

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