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Jul 01, 2019 press release latest installment in the highly recommended benchmark series now available. We realised that nobody was making a decent bias light that was affordable and that offered the high cri and accurate cct correlated colour temperature needed by professional colourists and highend home theatre hobbyists. The avs hd 709 isnt the only calibration disc available, there are others like the spears and munsil calibration disc or digital video essentials that have their own tutorials. It costs about as much as any other bluray disc and yields great results.
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