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In Reply to: I would agree tubes are best ..... posted by EdM on September 25, 2002 at 12:53:42:
I noticed you mentioned that before. Sure not true with mine. The room is only 12' wide, but you can see perfectly from anywhere in the room, so +/- 6' off center for a ~4' wide screen. That's not bad at all, larger viewing space than you get with a "tiny" tube. It's the vertical field of view which is *extremely* limited, I mean CRITICAL. The lighting does not have to be anywhere near as dim as for most (all?) projectors to prevent washout. Around here, a plasma almost the same size as my RPTV costs more than 6 times as much for little benefit except great cool factor.Plus, we must remember all RPTV's aren't created equal. The ones we use at work are about $50k each (3 per room) and I still haven't seen anything better for resolution and clarity...need a dedicated *clean* projection room for these though. They are much brighter than our similar-cost front projection systems. I'm only mentioning this because RPTV gets knocked for being a poor-cousin less capable technology, when it's not really if you can afford the proper setup (good/large mirrors and optics are very expensive).
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Both my neighbors have newer Mitsubishi big screens.
One is postioned badly so when the sun is out the screen is completely washed out.
The other has has his placed on a angle so the viewing area is about 20 feet across. If you don't get there early and get a seat on the sofa facing it, forget it. Late arrivals usually end up sitting on the floor in front of it.Lastly I find the picture very soft, nothing like my Pansonic 36" HDTV or the plasmas I've seen.
Lot's of people like the RPTVs so ....
I know what you mean, but any display will get washed out to some degree in sunlight. As for very soft, you ought to see the way the RPTV's (esp. for some reason the Pioneer Elite series) are usually set up at dealers...will burn your eyeballs out. I would bet the soft display is probably set up that way. Actually, most people have them set up too brightly. You have to train yourself to what is proper (proper calibration I mean), it is not what you're used to, and certainly not like a computer screen. It is nice to be able to calibrate the units at least, you can do a not too bad setup yourself though. Assume that at least 99% of displays are not set up correctly, especially at dealers. If they were, gotta admit, people would not be impressed until they had a further appreciation of what they were seeing.
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