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Arfa Daily wrote:
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.


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
?

Me, for one. Some things I like to watch properly - not just glance at.
And it's not so very long ago a 28" CRT was pretty well top of the range.
But when I do sit down to watch TV I do it under controlled lighting
conditions - and through a good stereo sound system too. I want to see it
at its best.

These things are designed to have Coronation Street watched on them in
normal, averagely lit lounges really.

Maybe, but then so was every TV ever made.

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

No - I'm not in the market for a new TV yet.

? 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.

All I do know was I worked on an HD TV shoot recently where the monitors
were all LCD HD (and Pro ones so I assume state of the art). And on the
numerous night scenes the LD was relying totally on his scope to set black
level rather than the monitor. Which was displaying various shades of grey
where it should have been black. Quite a 'contrast' from the Grade 1 CRT
location monitors which were used for SD.

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