Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has announced the
Disney's WOW World of Wonder disc, a configuration and calibration disc, hosted by none other than Goofy, to help consumers (from beginners and enthusiasts to experts and custom installers alike) to get the best quality experience from their home theater systems. It will be available November 2, in
single-disc and
double-disc versions.
Viewers will learn the basics of HD and home theater alongside Disney's classic character Goofy, then follow basic instructions to maximize home theater performance through an easy to follow on-screen menu. The disc packaging also includes an in-depth illustrated handbook. The Disney WOW disc is comprehensive and applicable to everything from flat panel displays and OLED screens to projection equipment and CRT based TV sets, as well as multiple sound formats ranging from Stereo to 7.1 Channel Surround.
The disc contains 35 easy-to-use A/V calibration and evaluation tools, for beginners, advanced and expert home theater enthusiasts. It has been produced and directed by Richard J. Casey, of R&B Films, Ltd.
A/V Tools in the Beginner section are designed for ease of use in the proper alignment of home theater equipment. The Advanced section contains A/V Tools that address professional evaluation and calibration tasks for specific monitors, displays, and projectors. Illustrations in the included 56 page booklet and the on-screen guide provide clear examples of properly and improperly calibrated A/V test patterns.
Disney's WOW World of Wonder disc will be presented in single-disc (SRP $34.99) and two-disc (SRP $39.99) versions. The latter will include an exclusive extra disc called
Visions: Inspired by Nature, featuring "breathtaking natural and digitally created landscapes with original music scores and ambient sounds."
It will also be available in a Home Theater Value Pack (with an HDMI cable), and a Home Theater Starter Pack (with a Disney movie Blu-ray and an HDMI cable)
Full contents include:
Discover
- Beginner
- Home Theater Basics With Goofy
- Easy As 1-2-3
- Lost University
- Split Screen Showdown
- Advanced
- What makes up a picture?
- What is sound?
- What is compression?
- What are interlaced/progressive images?
- What is 24-frame playback?
- Disney Blu-ray
- Creating New Memories
- Digital Copy
- Disney Movie Rewards
- Disney BD-Live
Optimize
- Beginner video tools
- Brightness
- Aspect ratio
- Contrast
- Color
- Sharpness
- Viewing angle diagnostic
- Audio tools
- Speaker ID
- Polarity test
- Noise floor
- Buzz & rattle test
- Advanced video tools - professional video calibration and monitor evaluation specifically designed for optimizing and testing all displays including LCD, plasma, DLP, OLED, CRT and projector
- Advanced video calibration tools
- Advanced brightness & contrast
- Aspect ratio
- Convergence
- Chroma & hue
- Sharpness/focus
- Overscan test
- A/V Sync
- Display evaluation tools
- Purity
- Scaling test
- Advanced scaling 1 & 2
- Sharpness/focus
- Hyperbolic zone plate
- White-black clipping
- Viewing angle test
- Gamma response
- Grayscale
- Compound test chart
- Advanced audio tools
- Speaker ID
- Polarity Test
- Noise Floor
- Buzz & Rattle Test
- A/V Sync
- Speaker Level Adjustment
- Subwoofer Level Adjustment
- Expert professional tools
- HD Shootout - standard DVD vs. HD/Blu-ray
Experience - Includes breathtaking scenes from your favorite Disney films and more
- Toy Story
- Toy Story 2
- Up
- Wall-E
- G-Force
Bolt
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
- Monsters, Inc.
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Prestige
- Surrogates
- Nature's Journey
Visions: Inspired by Nature bonus disc
- Flower Fields
- Cumulous Day
- Forest Waterfalls
- Big Sur Fireplace
- Ocean Sunset Spring
- Desert Vistas
- Summer
- Mountain Skies
- Sunrays
- Ripples
For the user manual,
click here.