"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
I think that I would have to contest your point of "very limited
control". All of the (recent) half-way decent LCD screens that I have
seen to date, have a perfectly adequate contrast ratio. Certainly, the
one in my kitchen produces deep enough blacks and bright enough whites
to be absolutely fine under the pretty intense flourescent light that I
have in there. This is one of the reasons that I question the
requirement to extinguish areas of the backlighting in order to
'improve' the rendition of blacks.
If you're just watching casually under high ambient lighting, the quality
of the blacks is pretty irrelevant. It's when you're doing some serious
viewing under subdued lighting that it matters. And this is exactly where
ordinary backlit LCD falls over against CRT.
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*Who is this General Failure chap anyway - and why is he reading my HD? *
Dave Plowman London SW
To e-mail, change noise into sound.
Granted, but this is a general entertainment device. When does anyone do any
'serious' viewing on a TV set, especially a not-very-special 32" LCD ? These
things are designed to have Coronation Street watched on them in normal,
averagely lit lounges really. I've seen some of the Sony offerings that are
intended as 'serious' home cinema displays, displayed in subdued lighting
demo rooms. One that I was particulary impressed by, was in a Sony store in
Vegas. That set had standard constant intensity CCFL backlighting, and I
don't recall thinking that there was any problem at all with the way it
rendered blacks. Have you had a look at one of these LED backlit Sammys yet
Dave ? As you are involved with the broadcast business - allbeit on the
sound side rather than the vision - I would be interested to know what you
make the picture compared to others. Waitrose have them, so I guess John
Lewis would as well, as well as the Currys barns, probably.
Arfa