Is Professional Video Calibration Worth the Expense?

First of all, you’re here because you love home theater. So do I – that’s why I do this.
 
But I don’t want just any old home theater experience – I want it to be the best home theater experience I can get for my hard-earned bucks. It doesn’t mean it’s going to be the best home theater in the world, because I can’t afford the best equipment in the world.
 
So what does it mean? It means I want my equipment to be set up, adjusted, and working the way it needs to work to give me the best experience I can get with my equipment. I’m sure you do, too, or you wouldn’t be reading this, right?
 
How distracting is it to you to not be able to see something you know you should be able to see in the shadows, or see something that’s not quite the ‘right’ color you know it should be? If you’re anything like me, little things like that will snap you out of the home theater experience faster than a bucket of cold water thrown in your face while you’re asleep!
 
Now think about this: would it be worth the pennies per viewing hour that calibration costs if even ONE thing is corrected by calibration that wasn’t correct before like black level, white level, grayscale, color, tint, sharpness, picture size and aspect ratio, etc., so it wouldn’t annoy you ever again?
 
Well I’ve got really good news – professional calibration will correct ‘em all – and then some! A life saver for us picky, picky home theater enthusiasts, isn’t it? I think so.
 
Obviously, I can’t answer the question of whether professional video calibration is worth the expense for you. Only you can answer that one. Am I biased about the benefits of professional video calibration? Sure! But I wasn’t born that way – I had to see it for myself.