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In Reply to: Why not get a crt-type widescreen HDTV posted by dpy on December 28, 2003 at 17:18:01:
The ONLY advantage for pixed pixel plasma is the flat screen. They start to go right away, particularly if not immediately ISF calibrated. After a year or two you are left with a dim picture for your many $$$ spent.Also, I'm on my second RPTV; the first was analog and the new one is digital. I have not had a problem with either concerning viewers not directly on axis.
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Every display you purchase is incorrectly calibrated when new -- not just plasma. They will all start to go right away if you leave them in the manufacturer's torch mode . When properly set up, plasma will offer you 30,000 hours of viewing until the phosphors reach their half-life. By the way, that's the same amount of time as a CRT display.No other display technology can give you that looking through a window/3d effect that plasma technology can. And no other display technology offers the quality of off-axis viewing like a plasma display. A trip to even Best Buy or Circuit City will prove this to the eyes of the most anti-plasma crowd. If they're honest.
The truth about plasma displays:
That's a great link that I've been using for a few days now. I bought a relatively inexpensive Akai pdp at Costco, not anywhere near sota of course, but pretty nice, enough for my family's level of interest, and returnable if I ever change my mind about it or anything goes wrong. I found the "steaming rat" comments on adjustment very interesting, as the default modes all have fairly high contrast and/or brightness levels. The customer service guy said the set should work best at "50" - the midpoint. I'm still fiddling with it. I haven't bought one of those AVE discs yet because the numbers people have reported from using them have seemd to have high contrast or brightness. Got any pointers?Lastly, do you have any ideas on low to medium priced good quality players that have a mild zoom feature - just enough to fill the screen with a 235:1 dvd but not more? My old Toshiba does just that but it isn't progressive scan (I don't think).
Regards,
Paul
Click on the link. When you get there, click on the Search function at the top of the screen. Just type zoom for the keyword and specify the DVD Players forum in the Search Options: Search Forum... section below that.
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