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In Reply to: it's a blur posted by acres verde on July 11, 2005 at 10:27:48:
Where's the Sharpness contol set at? As you increase the level, you get "halos" due to excessive ringing created by adding "fake" detail.Are there any "auto" picture controls turned on? Many of these controls, due to their automatic nature, tend to screw up the picture more than they help. They can literally be called "dummy controls", because only a dummy would use them. Some of these controls may default to "on", so you have to check the set-up menu on your display and go through all of the commands to make sure they're disengaged, turned off or at least set to their most neutral setting.
Have you used Digital Video Essentials or Avia to calibrate your display on the consumer level? Displays come from the factory set up way too hot and out of whack compared to a properly adjusted display. Adjusting it "by eye" doesn't cut it. These calibration DVDs are inexpensive (check out the prices at deepdiscountdvd.com) and there's really no excuse for anyone remotely interested in a proper video presentation not to own at least one of these calibration discs.
Follow Ups:
Finally got around to calibrating the video settings with the Avia program yesterday. Everything needed some tweaking but there were no gross misalignments. Reds were a little hot after adjusting saturation and hue so I toned them down a bit. Unfortunately, the primary complaint goes unchanged. Last nite a commercial came on that featured a man standing at the foot of a red felt pool table pitching whatever product and the entire expanse of the felt had such a fuzzy haze over it that you could barely pick out the side rails of the table. But this focus problem does seem to come and go and is irrespective of source or whether in HDF or STD def. Maybe a better way to express it as opposed to coming and going would be to say that the more distant the images are in perspective, the more fuzzy, hazy and indistinct they become [and abnormally so as compared to my previous reference Mitsu 35" circa 1994 using the same input sources save for new and upgraded Dish 500 receiver].
So far I have dashed off two e-mails to Sony in response to their service follow-up letter which tells me how much my satisfaction is their highest priority but, gee whiz and golly, no feedback has yet to trickle in so far. Anyway, thanks for your obviously learned input.
Good Points!It would help to know if the problem is constant from every source, in which case you are 100% correct or it is an intermitant problem. Regardless setup is important.
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