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Re: DOES THE TOSHIBA 2700 SUFFER FROM THE CHROMA BUG?

Posted by kotches (R) on August 18, 2001 at 13:26:56

In Reply to: DOES THE TOSHIBA 2700 SUFFER FROM THE CHROMA BUG? posted by inertia7 on August 18, 2001 at 06:10:12:

Inertia 7,

As we test players we add them to the list. We have about 18 or 20 players we're including in Benchmark 2, and will be posting that in the next few weeks over at Secrets of Home Theater and High Fidelity.

A quick rule of thumb to use on the chroma defect:
Toshiba, Zoran, C-Cubed, LSI Logic, Mitsubishi and Fujitsu MPEG decoders are currently exhibiting the Chroma Defect.

Panasonic and Mediamatics (as well as WinDVD for HTPC) are not.

Sensitivity to the chroma defect is person to person. Rich is lucky that he doesn't notice the defect, or can tune it out. Once Stacey and Don showed me the defect in person, I started noticing it, even on the 55" Mitsubishi set occupying the HT presently. Up 'till that time I was blissfully ignorant of the chroma defects visual effects.

This is kind of like the "rainbow" effect that DLP projectors can have, where whites have a slight split of RGB into a "rainbow" at the edges of the color. Some simply cannot tolerate it, and others are oblivious to its presence.

My suggestion is to take one of the scenes that exhibits the effect with you and see if you notice it on whatever it is you're using for movie playback. If you see the defect, don't buy the player.

I'm including a pointer to our article on the Chroma Upsampling Defect at our web site, and the list of players will be updated when the results of Benchmark 2 are posted. The list of players is what we've tested, and we haven't had results since late 2000 posted.

Good luck!

Regards,

• Secrets of HT & HiFi Chroma Bug article.   (Open in New Window)

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