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"Getting a professional to come and set up your home theater equipment can be expensive, which means many of us end up trying to take on the task ourselves. Tuesday THX launched its first mobile app, THX tune-up, designed to make that process much simpler.  \nEven if you know your audio and video equipment, tweaking your own personal setup can be a daunting task. What audio do you use to test the speakers? How do you know you\u2019ve really got the colors on your TV set up correctly?\nTHX\u2019s app turns your iPhone into the Geek Squad, providing step-by-step instructions through audio narration and text on how to set up your television and audio equipment.\n\u201CIt\u2019s an app that allows the average consumer \u2013 not the calibrator or the home theater installer \u2013 but the average Joe or Jane to have some resources and guidance from THX,\u201C Sandra Benedetto, director of product management at THX told Mashable.\nThe interactive app offers detailed instructions and help to set up your television\u2019s aspect ratio, brightness, contrast, color, and tint appropriately as well as test your speakers to ensure they\u2019re connected to the correct audio video receiver (AVR) output, that all of your speakers wires are connected correctly and that all of your speakers are in phase. \nDesigned to be used as a two-screen experience, to start the process users will need to connect their iOS device to their television using a digital audio/video adapter or via Airplay. Once connected, you can use your iDevice to control what\u2019s on your television.\nAudio scripts walk you though each step of the set-up process, which often involves a picture or graphic on the screen. Narration can also be turned off, and you can instead read the directions.\n\nThe brightness setting, for instance, is set using a pattern with the THX logo. The logo has a drop shadow. To set the brightness on your TV, you are asked to turn the brightness all the way down, and then turn it up until you are able to see the drop shadow. \nColor settings are done by pointing your device at your television and adjusting the colors on your television based on what you are able to see on your iPhone or iPad\u2019s screen.\nTHX has also added a number of its cinema features to the app including THX Trailers \u2013 the same that can  be seen in THX Certified Cinemas \u2013 for showing off your perfectly-tuned setup, and \u2018Ask Tex\u2019 a feature that helps customers get answers to any questions they might have about their home theater equipment or the setup process.\n\u2018This is a way we can give them [users] the tools and understanding to get the best out of their system regardless of what they paid for it,\u201D says Benedetto.\nTHX is available now for iOS, and will be free through February 4th. The company plans on releasing an Android version of the app in the Spring.\nThumbnail Image courtesy Flickr, espenorvik"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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