Comments:

AVIA, for me, was relatively easy to navigate. I listened to the verbal
explanations of the picture controls, then pretty much navigated
through the basic setup on my own. Now onto specific TV sets:

The Toshiba:_____________________

First, I checked Geometry. After having already checked and adjusted
the hidden menus with the Lucas trilogy, the AVIA patterns were
displayed point-on!!! No excessive pincushioning or overscan acc. to
AVIA.

My Color and Hue settings ended up being slightly different than what
they were using that cheapie "Home Theatre Test & Setup" DVD.

As for Detail, I previously set it to zero because this set has
full-time, full-cranked SVM! Because of that, I noticed a change in
the AVIA sharpness pattern only when Sharpness was cranked above the
midpoint or so. I was able to keep it well above zero after using
AVIA.

The real world? Images were as lifelike as you can get for a
conventional CRT. Slight red-push lingered after using AVIA's scale
pattern for checking R,G,B. Brightness/shadow detail - very good.
Edge detail - always crisp on this set, no convergence issues
whatsoever. The focus at the center is what you get at the edge. When
I get up the nerve to go inside and disconnect power to the SVM board,
it might be a different story. Overall, composite line input and
component presented the most lifelike images, suggesting that broadcast
and cable channels are overdriving themselves to stand out in a crowded
field. : (

For other owners of this Toshiba and the others in the AF family, here
are my final settings(YMMV): Scale is 0 - 64.

Pictu 32
Bright: 35
Color: 26
Hue: +7
Sharp: 25


The Sony:_______________________

This one's a little tougher to calibrate owing to some serious
convergence problems affecting pretty much all of the screen outside a
section in the center as big as a standard sheet of paper. READ -
NASCAR driver positions or NFL scores on top, news trailers on the
bottom, or anything written on the sidebars, will always be fuzzy no
matter how well you focus, even with AVIA grids.

After tuning up the Sony's focus(as best as can be done!), I checked
geometry. Again, geometry was spot-on, except that I needed to get
into it's service menus to increase the "VSIZ" just a click.

Onto the basic 5: Amazingly, the post-AVIA settings were almost
identical to my original adjustments, exc. for Sharpness. With Scan
Velocity off, I was able to see blooming on the sharpness pattern
almost right away! So I was able to move the sharpness up only
slightly above zero.

The real world? Color balance almost identical to Toshiba's, even
thought the Sony Tint ended up being in the red and the Toshie's in the
green! Anybody want to comment on that? Shadow detail decent,
although this required a more substantial boost in the brightness/black
level control. Sharpness - great in the center of the screen and up to
six inches away in any direction. After that, convergence gremlins take
over and I have to switch SVM on, to the "Low" position to compensate.
Overall, when it's bedtime and I'm switching TVs, I can relax and not
see a significant change from the living room to bedroom.

Since Sony *still* doesn't use numerical values, I'll pass along what I
got for my WEGA graphically:

Pictu Min.||||||||||||||| Max.(50%)
Bright: Min.||||||||||||||||| Max.(55%)
Color: Min.|||||||||||||||| Max.(52%)
Hue: RED.||||||||||||| GRN.(47%)
Sharp: Min.|||||| Max.(20%)

Tests were conducted with SVM: OFF, Picture Mode=Movie, Color Temp:
Neutral.

I would like to hear from other AVIA users.

regards,

-CC