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paulzolo
What's a life?
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TV companies thrown their TVs out of the factory with a few settings. Most HD TVs are set with a shade more blue than necessary, very bright and high sharpness. This looks good in the shop, but back home, it can make your eyes water. Default settings will certainly make any compression artefacts stand out far more. Time with a test card and a blue filter is required to get a better picture. I’m slowly adjusting mine, but I think I’l be investing in a proper disk of images rather than the downloads of the BBC HD test card and another colour bar. With some effort, a much better picture can be got from the screen.
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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My TV has ISF calibration functions. Admittedly its best done by a pro but going through thr process gave me a much nicer image than the factory default. http://www.imagingscience.com/_________________Twitter Blogflickr
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HeatherKay
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How many "ordinary" people even bother to go through basic set-up on their TVs? Mind you, most of the folk complaining about the alleged lower quality are real technophiles, and probably have all kinds of metering equipment set up alongside their main television. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Does that make me unordinary or extraordinary   Its a shame most people dont bother setting up their TV's (My Dad's default sharpness setting was so sharp it cut your eyeballs) as - in the case with my TV - its so simple. A few images are shown on screen and you just follow instructions e.g. turn the brightness down until you cant see the grey box, etc etc. I also think some Disney Pixar DVDs have THX setup on them which is nice and easy to do too. _________________Twitter Blogflickr
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saspro
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So do all the Star Wars DVD's
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HeatherKay
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Extraordinary, of course. The first thing we ever do is fiddle with the controls on a new toy. We're still tweaking the settings on the Tosh telly we got a few months ago. _________________My Flickr | Snaptophobic BloggageHeather Kay: modelling details that matter. "Let my windows be open to receive new ideas but let me also be strong enough not to be blown away by them." - Mahatma Gandhi.
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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The emphasis is on DVDs. Sadly, you can’t do all the sharpness tests without a proper uncompressed 1920x1080 image, which a DVD won’t give you. I’ve not come across a BlueRay with this kind of set up yet (admittedly, I only have three films and the Star Trek series 1 on BR).
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| Fri Dec 18, 2009 2:28 pm |
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veato
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Terminator 2 has it. I dont know if any others. _________________Twitter Blogflickr
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