Eric,
You obviously did not set up your video source properly. Ive been optimising home systems for part of my liveing for the past 6 years and never seen any degration in performance by use of this disk. Sometimes the problem is your tv`s manufactures technicans settings that are way out of wack. Hire a pro to recalibrate those. Have them stop at that point and I bet you can get a picture yourself that you never thought was possible. Make sure that the tech at least uses a light meter to properly set the kelvin scale. Then you will be home free. If in the milwaukee area I could help. I own all equipment needed!!