Lumagen Advanced Auto-Calibrate Bundles

The Total Auto-Calibration Solution

Comprehensive video calibration has never been so easy. With this package, all you have to do is setup a few initial options and then click a button and in less than 10 minutes your display will be full calibrated to professional standards.

The line of Lumagen Radiance video processors is—like the DVDO Duo—a revolutionary product, a true game changer. Here's why. Until now there was always one weak link in the chain of video calibration. If your display lacked the proper set of calibration controls, it simply didn't matter if you had an extremely accurate meter and the world's greatest software. Without the means to adjust the image, you could not improve the display regardless of the calibration equipment you used.

The only solution to this problem was an external device that provided the necessary adjustments that you could place in between the source material (broadcast, DVD, or Blu-ray) and the display. Unfortunately, there were very few such devices available. There is a full-featured video processor that did the job, but it was enormously expensive, in all likelihood more expensive than the display you were trying to calibrate. There were also more affordable PC-based solutions, but these devices lacked a robust feature set and required adding a computer to your home entertainment system.

The Advanced Auto-Calibrate Advantage

The Lumagen line of processors take auto-calibration to the next level by including calibration at 125-points throughout the color gamut, instead of focusing only on the traditional 6 points at the gamut edge. For a detailed description of the 125-point calibration system, see our recent New Gear article.

The basic package includes:

• Lumagen Radiance Mini3D Video Processor
• ChromaPure Standard w/Advanced Auto-Calibrate
• X-Rite Display 3 PRO colorimeter
• USB-RS232 adapter

The Lumagen Radiance Mini3D is first and foremost a full-featured video processor designed from the ground up as an user-friendly adjunct to a quality home theater installation. It offers the following:

• 2 HDMI inputs
• 3D Output
• world-class scaling and deinterlacing for standard and high definition sources
• noise reduction
• detail enhancement
• aspect ratio control
• selectable output format, including up to 1080p
• remote control with on-screen display

With all of these features, the Radiance Mini3D provides much of what you get from a high-end home theater receiver without the amplification digital sound decoding. However, what makes the Mini3D truly special is the full set of video calibration controls it also offers. These include

• Comprehensive set of video test patterns all automatically controlled by ChromaPure—just click measure in ChromaPure and the Mini3D will automatically provide the necessary test pattern.
• 10% grayscale/gamma adjustment
• Full 3D color management, offering adjustments to the brightness, hue, and saturation of all of the primary and secondary colors.
• Full 125-point cube calibration of the entire gamut.

So how is the Mini3D different from the Duo? Well, in many ways not very different at all. They both provide world-class video processing and calibration controls. There are three main differences.

• The Mini3D is somewhat more powerful. It offers more test patterns and outputs true 3D signals, so it is ideal for calibrating displays in 3D mode.
• Aa described above it provides a true 3D 125-point color calibration tool tightly integrated into ChromaPure's Advanced Auto-calibrate technology. This allows you to calibrate throughout the color space, rather than simply on the gamut border.
• However, it has only two digital HDMI inputs, so installations are somewhat less flexible.

Add to this ChromaPure video calibration software with the Advanced auto-calibrate add-on and a high quality color analyzer, such as the Display 3 PRO and you have the ability to achieve professional-quality results with no training or expertise in video calibration. The package of tools does all the work for you.

Lumagen 2021 Option

Do you want to step-up to the next level? If so, consider an upgrade to the Lumagen 2021 video processor. It adds a second HDMI output and two additional HDMI inputs (four total). Importantly, it also includes Darbee Visual Presence™ (DVP) detail enhancement technology.

Get the 4K Ultra-HD option

The Lumagen Radiance 2041 is exactly the same as the 2021, except it adds 4K output. With this option installed your processor is future-proofed for what is almost certain to be the 4K revolution, which is coming in the next year or two. Just like the 2021, the 2041 has two HDMI outputs. The difference is that one of them supports 2K and the other supports 4K resolution.