On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Jeff Miles <[email protected]> wrote:
> Anyway, I've been comparing the different brands simply by visual > inspection at Costco. They have >carried the Sharp, Panasonic, Visio(?) and > some others I can't remember off the top of my head. The >Panasonic did look > sharper, crisper and more vibrant when it came to color saturation while > keeping >detail in the shadow areas. And before you ask, they were all > showing the same movie at the times I did >compare them. It could be the > controls on the TVs themselves, but I'm guessing the store set them up >out > of the box at factory settings. All televisions these days come with a display parameter setting specifically designed for use in stores. This setting generally causes the displayed image in the store to be much brighter than you would have it set in your home, the colors to be artificially saturated, the sharpness to be extreme, etc., etc., etc. Such settings are designed to cause one set to stand out versus others on display. This is simlar to how stores sell stereo systems by turning the bass and treble all the way to eleven to capture attention. In fact, when you buy a TV and set it up in your home and first turn it on, you are asked, by way of a dialog box that appears on screen if you want the display to be set to "Store Display" parameters or to "Home Use" parameters, or something similarly worded. Different makers will have those preset in-store parameters set to differing levels of extremism, thus making it quite difficult for buyers to be able to accurately determine what a realistic picture will really look like once they get the set home and start using it. For folks who like their TV images to have those overly saturated, psychedelic-like colors and with sharpness levels beyond the ridiculous and with brightness that will burn their eyeballs out, they can just use those in-store settings at home. For folks who want images that appear realistic, they will have to make a number of adjustments to the picture setting parameters. New TVs do have some preset home use parameters, but I have not as yet found one that really displays a particularly accurate picture using their factory settings. They are all a bit extreme, in my opinion, but one can create their own picture setting parameters to pretty much get screen images that look natural on any decent quality TV these days. Steve ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
