Datacolor Spyder4PRO Monitor Calibration Tool Review

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APH Networks checked out the Datacolor Spyder4PRO Monitor Calibration Tool

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In the beginning of the Fall semester last year, I was hanging out in the Electrical Engineering homeroom, playing some foosball with my friend. As we bounced goals off each other during a relatively fast paced game, a group of four individuals dropped by, and one of them asked if we were any good at foosball. "I will challenge both of you guys one on two," he said in an intimating manner. Being in the faculty of engineering for the last few years, it is always wise to assume a bit of humility in this regard, because there are some guys that just strikingly amazing. "We are okay at foosball," I replied. My friend and I took our bars, and the ball was dropped. In a little less than four minutes, he was completely defeated. Thinking it was just his luck, he decided to challenge me one on one. His friends began to snicker, and told him he was messing with the wrong people. I accepted the challenge, and just like the last game, I beat him ten to nothing in almost no time. (Later on, I found out he was a first year student -- this is not to mention I used to play foosball every day at work during my internship after third year, and I am ranked first in the office, haha.) Is he physically incapable of playing good foosball? Personally, I do not think so. Throughout the game, he certainly has the power and agility of a good player. The problem is, he did not have the same training and experience like I did, contributing to his humiliating and complete loss. The same story goes in the LCD monitor world. Sure, you can spend hundreds, or even thousands, of dollars on a professional grade 8-bit AH-IPS display, but what merit does it have if the display if the colors are inaccurate? Of course, calibration is not just limited to expensive LCDs. To see what we can do to bring everything ranging from low end TN monitors to high performance IPS panels up to the reference standard, we plugged in a Datacolor Spyder4PRO colorimeter to see how much we have been missing out all these years.
 Datacolor Spyder4PRO Monitor Calibration Tool Review @ APH Networks