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you wouldn't happen to own an NEC TV?

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In Reply to: Hallelujah! I have SEEN the Promised Land, and it's the RETURN of Technicolor Dye Transfer posted by Bob Casner on February 10, 2000 at 19:16:30:

my old NEC had the closest to true color spectrum of any other TV's I've ever viewed. I hope their new PlasmaScreen:4210w is comparable. I'd be interested in your impressions of CRTs or plasmas as a developer. I personally don't particularly like the other choices. I find the contrast ratio unrealisticly thin, as there's no sense of depth because black is always charcoal. Different shades but even my Panasonic CT-27SF which's notorious for this phenomena is a quantum level blacker.

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Nope, it's a 27" Toshiba Cinema Series, tweaked to within an inch of its life Bob Casner 13:30:05 02/11/00 (1)
Unfortunately, as far as I know, there are NO consumer monitors available that use the truer color SMPTE "C" phosphors. Professional broadcast monitors do, but they're limited to 20" diagonal and cost north of $10K. One of the other problems I've seen is "black level expansion" such as Proton sets, I believe, have which takes tones NEAR black all the way to black. And auto flesh tone "correction", etc. - don't get me started! The Toshiba, by the way, was recommended to me by Joe Kane, who I collared in the hallway at "Hi-Fi '98".
- isn't the Toshiba ... Mart 00:57:59 02/13/00 (0)
  ... the manuafacturer that has a cylindrical sectored screen (otherwise termed a 1-way flat screen). That is the profile appears flat, but the curvature is readily apparent if looking down from the top view. Unfortunately, I've never developed a tolerance for that style tube. My mind keeps trying to flatten the screen & the result renders an optical illusion of saddling the screen. The height of the screen in the center seems to shorten to me. I have a 4 year old 25" monitor on my SGI at work that I never got used to, that still does that to me.

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