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Which HDTV do you have and why?
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<blockquote data-quote="swshawaii" data-source="post: 897058" data-attributes="member: 67547"><p>doctorcad- Well said, but, side by side comparisons aren't possible at home, unless you buy one of each. Very unlikely. All manufacturers calibrate and adjust their TV's for brightly lit showrooms. If you compare the "Picture Mode" options with an identical ISF calibrated panel, the settings are DRASTICALLY different. Factory defaults for brightness and contrast/picture modes are set excessively high. HD flat panels are designed for HD sources. The biggest adjustment people have to make after viewing their CRT "dinosaurs" for so many years, is viewing NON HD 4:3 content. My 20 year old analog Sony XBR tube looks FAR better than my Pioneer Elite Pro-111HD Plasma watching NON High Def material. Stretching the 4:3 picture to fill the 16:9 screen degrades the picture even more. There are several inexpensive Blu-Ray Calibration DVD's available. " Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics", by Joe Kane, is widely used and available at Amazon for $16 w/ Free S/S Shipping. </p><p></p><p> Rodger, thanks for a fun and useful forum. Enjoy !!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="swshawaii, post: 897058, member: 67547"] doctorcad- Well said, but, side by side comparisons aren't possible at home, unless you buy one of each. Very unlikely. All manufacturers calibrate and adjust their TV's for brightly lit showrooms. If you compare the "Picture Mode" options with an identical ISF calibrated panel, the settings are DRASTICALLY different. Factory defaults for brightness and contrast/picture modes are set excessively high. HD flat panels are designed for HD sources. The biggest adjustment people have to make after viewing their CRT "dinosaurs" for so many years, is viewing NON HD 4:3 content. My 20 year old analog Sony XBR tube looks FAR better than my Pioneer Elite Pro-111HD Plasma watching NON High Def material. Stretching the 4:3 picture to fill the 16:9 screen degrades the picture even more. There are several inexpensive Blu-Ray Calibration DVD's available. " Digital Video Essentials: HD Basics", by Joe Kane, is widely used and available at Amazon for $16 w/ Free S/S Shipping. Rodger, thanks for a fun and useful forum. Enjoy !!! [/QUOTE]
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