On Thursday, October 22, 2015 at 2:58:02 PM UTC-4, wrote:
"me the term "calibrate" is specific to measuring devices, meters, tube testers, signal generators, rotameters, gauges and so forth that are set to a specific standard."

Likewise! DVD test patterns also count,
as long as one follows instructions on
what to look for when the specific
control(brightness, contrast) is adjusted
optimally.

I still sense a lot of skepticism in your
responses regarding display ALIGNMENT -
there, I just found a new name for it that
makes sense!

Mpffff..... Here we go again....

Alignment: My primary hobby is vintage radio restoration and repair, so "alignment" is a very specific term. Shifting that term from rF to Visual alignment is not a stretch, just not what leaped to mind when I read your assignment of this term to that process. Telescope people call it "collimation", musicians call it "tuning" but they are all forms of aligning some sort of information for greater accuracy/clarity.

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA