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Anthony Stewart
- Jan 1, 1970
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I remember when LG were 1st at Comdex to offer huge wide screen LCD's for ten grand.
It all depends how many people need to watch TV. If myself, I prefer the low noise, high contrast, high dpi, accurate colour of a good PC monitor.
My LG 25" 96 dpi 1080p looks much better at arm's length than my 43" LCD at any distance.
the LG has had 170deg viewing angle and low reflectance glass coating.
Techy Stuff...
If you ever experience dead pixels , they may be intermittent charge trap issues which can be erased with charge cycles of alternating contrast and colours using a free windows program called DPT.exe. I use it to tweak the gamma error, which is often the poorest feature and never spec'd in monitors.
Gamma error is responsible for the color errors at different brightness levels as the LCD is not a perfect linear display. It controls the curve of saturation vs intensity for each colour so the gary scale is perfect white tothe eye at all levels of luminance from black to white. The standby mode of TVs and LCD's often causes bad pixels which can be corrected with many power cycles or simply use DPT in the zone with the bad pixel. Fortunately these flaws are much less frequent and shorted transistors won't e fixed with this , just marginal trapped charge leakage issues that cause stuck pixels On.
Also consider that unless your theatre is pitch black... 2million:1 contrast ratio is lost with >>1% reflectance of clear glass TV's with the room lights still on.
.... although frosted glass anti-reflective glass is cheap and reduces roomlighting reflectance it adds diffusion or blur to small fonts on hi-res, optical anti-reflective coatings are best, like those used in camera lenses but too expensive for big screens but not so for smaller 25" LCDs.
Depends on your budget but, I don't use Netflix and get all my media from OTA HD antenna with HomeRun digital tuner on router and Ice Fils addon to XBMC
For DVD quality.
I can get same quality on my VGA at 1080p as HDMI with DPT.exe tuning to video card controls toTV with a good cable.
It all depends how many people need to watch TV. If myself, I prefer the low noise, high contrast, high dpi, accurate colour of a good PC monitor.
My LG 25" 96 dpi 1080p looks much better at arm's length than my 43" LCD at any distance.
the LG has had 170deg viewing angle and low reflectance glass coating.
Techy Stuff...
If you ever experience dead pixels , they may be intermittent charge trap issues which can be erased with charge cycles of alternating contrast and colours using a free windows program called DPT.exe. I use it to tweak the gamma error, which is often the poorest feature and never spec'd in monitors.
Gamma error is responsible for the color errors at different brightness levels as the LCD is not a perfect linear display. It controls the curve of saturation vs intensity for each colour so the gary scale is perfect white tothe eye at all levels of luminance from black to white. The standby mode of TVs and LCD's often causes bad pixels which can be corrected with many power cycles or simply use DPT in the zone with the bad pixel. Fortunately these flaws are much less frequent and shorted transistors won't e fixed with this , just marginal trapped charge leakage issues that cause stuck pixels On.
Also consider that unless your theatre is pitch black... 2million:1 contrast ratio is lost with >>1% reflectance of clear glass TV's with the room lights still on.
.... although frosted glass anti-reflective glass is cheap and reduces roomlighting reflectance it adds diffusion or blur to small fonts on hi-res, optical anti-reflective coatings are best, like those used in camera lenses but too expensive for big screens but not so for smaller 25" LCDs.
Depends on your budget but, I don't use Netflix and get all my media from OTA HD antenna with HomeRun digital tuner on router and Ice Fils addon to XBMC
For DVD quality.
I can get same quality on my VGA at 1080p as HDMI with DPT.exe tuning to video card controls toTV with a good cable.