Datacolor ColorFacts Professional 6.0

Overview

Displays are rarely tuned before shipping. Even worse, they may be intentionally tuned for retail lighting. Datacolor ColorFacts Professional calibrates the displays to show images as they were intended.

Datacolor ColorFacts is an easy-to-use color calibration software system for analyzing and optimizing the performance of video display systems. The system consists of hardware and a software component. The software runs on a computer and displays the analysis results on the computer screen. The results can be saved as files or can be printed, if desired.

With an intuitive, configurable, full-color user interface, Datacolor ColorFacts Professional reduces the time required to accurately calibrate almost any display. It enhances realism by extending highlight and shadow detail. It calibrates the display to the entire video chain all the way from DVD to screen. It realizes the film director's original version by using the same industry standard. Displays calibrated by ColorFacts will display a higher-quality image with more detail in the picture. The colors will be more natural and lifelike. The text will be more legible with no colored outlines.

ColorFacts is recognized by the Imaging Science Foundation (ISF), an organization dedicated to promoting professional video standards and educating the industry in the importance and the proper techniques of video calibration.

System Requirements
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• Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003
• Pentium Class CPU, 400MHZ or higher
• 128 MB Memory (Minimum)
• 20 MB Drive Space for product, additional space for user-generated files (graphics, data files)
• 800x600 video resolution or higher
• 24 or 32 bit color recommended (only necessary for internally generated test images)

Features & Benefits

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Key benefits:
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• Optimize LCD, RPTV, front projector, plasma or direct view sets
• Enhance the depth and realism of the image by maximizing contrast
• Correct the new set from its 'torch mode' state used for display on showroom floors
• Minimize unnatural black crushing
• Remove the "Blue push" present in many displays
• Improve 'Dark Surround' viewing when the display is watched in a dark room
• Calibrate the display to the entire video chain... all the way from DVD to screen
• Reproduce the vision of a film director by using the same industry standards
• Turn business displays into home theater performers

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Supported Products:
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• GretagMacbeth Eye-One Monitor (w/ spectral graphing)
• GretagMacbeth EyeOne Display
• GretagMacbeth / McMahon LightSpex (intentionally disabled)
• PhotoResearch PR-650 (w/ spectral graphing)
• ColorVision Spyder (originally resold slightly modified as the "Optimagery Sensor")
• ColorVision Spyder2
• Minolta CL-200 handheld chroma meter
• Minolta CS-100A through-the-lens colorimeter
• Minolta CA-210 LCD "box" colorimeter
• Minolta CA-100 colorimeter
• Minolta CA-110
• Minolta CS-1000 1 nm resolution spectroradiometer (w/spectral graphing)
• Milori Trichromat-1 (rebranded Sequel Imaging Chroma 4)
• Generic, non-password protected Sequel Imaging Chroma driver (supports Sencore ColorLabs probes cp-288 and cp-5000)
• Progressive Labs password protected CA-1 (intentionally disabled)
• OCLI MicroPac (not commercially available, intentionally disabled, w/spectral graphing)
• Manual Meter (values may be typed in from any instrument for which XYZ or xyY values are obtainable)
• Simulated Meter (a "smart" random number generator produces software generated readings for display)

Each meter can be independently turned "on" or "off" with registration settings that are centrally controlled.

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Signal generators supported by ColorFacts Professional:
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• Sencore VP300
• Sencore VP400, 401, 402, 403
• QuantumData 802 series
• Accupel HDG-3000
• Computer Video Card
• External test disc (Avia, AVIA Pro, Digital Video Essentials, PF Test Disc)