Posted by grant kinsley on 11/27/07 20:38

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:55:44 -0800, ChairmanOfTheBored
<RUBored@crackasmile.org> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:11:18 +0000 (UTC), nospam.tv@none.com wrote:
>
>>Mike S. <retsuhcs@xinap.moc> wrote:
>>
>>> Most HDTV's that I've seen in public places are poorly adjusted; and
>>> worse, usually displaying SD programming stretched to wide screen mode.
>>> Perhaps this is what the OP is seeing. I have a brother in law who, for 2
>>> years, has fed an HDTV set using an SD cable box using RF input; he
>>> insists that "this ***IS*** HDTV".
>>
>>You cannot judge the quality of HDTV by looking at the sets in the
>>store. Most of them are poorly calibrated and are not fed a HD signal
>>to begin with.
>
> Most FPDs are quite well calibrated right out of the box.

Not,

most are calibrated with too high a color temperature, and often with
things like white and black levels adjusted well beyond optimal and
sharpness usually adjusted to bursting halos.

GK
>>
>>When the TV is reasonably calibrated, and connected to a HD source
>>using a good connection (component/hdmi), the resulting picture should
>>be noticibly better than DVD, especially the HD signal from those
>>Saturday football games. ;)
>>
>>Since the OP is happy with a $50 21-inch TV, I doubt he's the kind
>>that pays attention to picture quality, so he's not missing much.
>
> I doubt he has the aptitude to know what "picture quality" even is.

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