Posted by ChairmanOfTheBored on 11/28/07 13:43

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:38:34 GMT, grant kinsley <sawbones@uniserve.com>
wrote:

>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

Well, mine must have been the exception out of the million because is
matched the Joe Kane disc's criteria just fine, and I have been using his
stuff since the days of CRTs and Laser Disc. It is a damn sight cheaper
than some expensive piece of test pattern generator box that was severely
limited, and it includes audio sections.

Mine is fine, and My HD Joe Kane disc yielded conformance to set up
needs, and strikingly beautiful imagery and I didn't have to do anything
but reduce the color level a bit.
>>>
>>>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.

You should learn to snip.

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