Video Asylum

Posted by PabloP (A) on December 30, 2003 at 08:44:58

In Reply to: the truth about plasma displays posted by Joe Murphy Jr on December 29, 2003 at 19:46:48:

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