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Bob Larter

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Well, I saw one of these LED backlit TV sets from Sammy in a store last
night, and I have to say that I was not particularly impressed with the
picture quality. Comparing to conventionally backlit (CCFL) Sony and
Panasonic offerings in immediate proximity to the Sammy, it was my
opinion
that the rendition of skin tones, which we previously agreed was a good
test
of a colour display's performance, was actually nothing like as good.
Both
the Pan and the Sony had a near identical 'tone' to the skin of a
newsreader's face. On the Sammy, that same face was rather pink and
florid
looking. I also did not think that the black level was any better than
on
the other two sets, which is a point that they are making a lot of,
claiming
that it substantially increases the contrast ratio.

I don't know what 'set-ups' this TV has, in terms of brightness,
contrast,
colour saturation, tint/hue, but in my experience, most LCD TVs - which
is,
after all, what this is - are set correctly 'out of the box', but I
accept

P'raps it needs degausing - or the convergence tweaking!

Ahh - my old Dynatron with 27 pots on a hinged panel to play with.

thats one thing I DON'T miss. I thanked god for inline guns.

Ayup. When I was a kid, our first colour set was a 27" Baird, which had
a huge, hinged PCB with a kazillion pots on it, & an acetate overlay
covering the whole thing, with diagrams printed on it to show what each
pot adjusted. *Lots* of fun!

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