Digital Video Essentials Professional from Joe Kane Productions and sponsored by Extron is a set of six DVDs that serve as professional reference tools for designing, calibrating, evaluating, and installing AV systems. The standard and high definition video test and demonstration materials were created by Joe Kane for specific aspects of video performance and diagnostics. Included with the six DVD set are PAL and NTSC versions, comprehensive tutorials, and WMV - Windows Media® Video versions in standard and high definition video.

For audio, DVE Professional provides test signals for optimizing Dolby Digital® and DTS® multi-channel audio, as well as for speaker placement, wiring, system response, acoustics, and even video timing for all of the audio formats. Also included is a resource section with information on basic video and audio system parameters.

Included in this six DVD set:

Disc One: Consumer NTSC Version Includes the tutorial of how to use the basic system setup patterns and is designed for use with the NTSC television system.

Disc Two: Consumer PAL Version Includes the tutorial of how to use the basic system setup patterns and is designed for use with the PAL television system.

Disc Three: Professional Level NTSC NTSC test signals designed for the industry professional, in addition to consumer-level monitor set-up patterns. Support for the test patterns contained on this disc can be found on the Joe Kane Productions Web site by registering your copy of DVE Pro.

Disc Four: Professional Level PAL with DVD-ROM Interactivity for Registering DVE Pro PAL test signals designed for the industry professional, in addition to consumer-level monitor set-up patterns. Also contains the necessary programming to register DVE Pro and access Digital Video Essentials Internet support. You'll need the serial number that comes with each package to register.

Disc Five: Professional Level Windows Media High Definition - 601 Color Space   Test signals for Windows Media Video systems, including progressive standard definition 720 x 486p and 854 x 480p, and HDTV materials at 1280 x 720p and 1920 x 1080p/60. The YCbCr component video signal used as an input to the Windows Media Encoder follows the SD color matrix described in Rec. ITU-R BT.601-5. For clarification the two high definition rates on this disc have been encoded using the SD matrix. This has been done to provide material compatible with many computer output cards that only decode YCbCr to RGB following Rec. ITU-R BT.601-5. System requirements for Rec. ITU-R BT.601-5 color matrix accommodation at high definition rates: PCI Motherboard: Minimum 800 MHz front side bus/system bus. ASUS solution supporting SATA hard drives. System Memory: Minimum 1 GB RAM Video: AGP nVidia chipset FX900 minimum, 128 MB RAM exactly DVI Output: Leadtek - recommended manufacturer Hard Drive: 200 GB minimum SATA 7500 RPM

Disc Six: Professional Level Windows Media High Definition - 709 Color Space Test signals for high definition Windows Media Video systems, at both 1280 x 720p and 1920 x 1080p/60 resolutions. Compatible with systems employing the HD color matrix described in Rec. ITU-R BT.709-4.   There are no SD test materials on this disc as there is no common use of Rec. ITU-R BT.709-4 for encoding such material.   System requirements for Rec. ITU-R BT.709-4 color matrix transcoding of high definition signals: PCI-E Motherboard: ASUS P5AD2 Processor: Minimum - Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz 1 GB L2 cache System Memory: Minimum 1 GB RAM Video: nVidia FX6700 chipset Hard Drive: 200 GB minimum SATA 7500 RPM