Video Asylum

Posted by acres verde (A) on July 25, 2005 at 08:42:34

In Reply to: check these posted by Joe Murphy Jr on July 11, 2005 at 21:23:23:

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.