Video Asylum

Posted by C.B. (A) on June 17, 2004 at 04:31:11

In Reply to: Rico's advice is well taken-stay away from used sets posted by padreken on June 15, 2004 at 13:29:59:

Bought mine from Sunshine, a well-rated eBay retailer (I did the "buy it now" option), and I'm very satisfied. With shipping from Brooklyn to Michigan it came out to exactly $2K, and the shipping company even brought the set into the house and plugged it in (to make sure there was no shipping damage). I haven't had the set calibrated yet, but the picture looks great right out of the box ("Pro" setting).

One suggestion--I'm running the interlaced component video signal from my DVD player through a DVDO iScan Pro, and the line-doubled image (3:2 cinema pull-down on film-based sources) is excellent. The line-doubler in the Sony is OK, but usually you will get better results from a separate line-doubler/scaler.