KF-50WE610 Screen

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On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 21:25:57 -0700, Bruce Stedman wrote:

> I recently purchased a Sony KF-50WE610 50 inch LCD Projection TV. It
> looked great in the store and overall I'm very happy with my purchase.
> But I was curious if others have seen an issue with the screen, in
> that, I find that my attention is sometimes drawn to the physical
> screen when there are pure white objects being projected. An example
> might be, during a baseball game, the white uniform of the player
> stands out. It seems to be a manufactured "pattern", almost a sparkle
> effect that is apparent on the screen, but only at high light
> intensity levels. If there an adjustment that I might be able to make
> to improve the situation? (I also have a lot of sunlight in the room
> during the day, so I have boosted the brightness and picture levels a
> bit. I also don't want to watch a dim TV!)
>
> In addition it seems that objects that are in motion, such as the
> scrolling marquee in news casts, are somewhat blurred (not crisp) and
> dimmer compared to normal text on the screen. I have tivo and I
> noticed when I pause the screen the brightness of the moving text is
> normal. I should point out that I have DirecTV but not in high
> definition, so Im using the S-Video input. So Im not sure if this is
> just a side effect of the lower signal quality.
>
> I find the "sparkle" can be distracting and hard on the eyes and can't
> help wondering if I should have bought the 60" XBR or a plasma screen
> over this unit.
>
>
> (PS I do normally sit about 12-15 feet from the TV. If Im in my
> kitchen, say about 25 feet away, I do not see this "sparkle effect".)
>
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks!

I have the same set and haven't noticed either of the problems that you
state. I'm using Comcast cable with a DVI cable. They have two channels
called INHD where they optimize the HD signal. The pictures on those
channels is almost 3D. I find that these demo mode pictures are a little
unnatural looking.

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I have the same set. Without adjustment, standard DirecTV (also through S
video), looks terrible. Lots of block artifacts. The contrast was also too
high. Anything somewhat dark just looked like a black blob and colors looked
unnatural. I changed the picture from Vivid to Standard. I turned up the
brightness and picture most of the way (about 80%), changed the color temp
to neutral and turned on noise reduction. Under advanced video, I changed
the custom palette to maximize both clarity and reality and turned on the
block noise smoother set to high. Picture now looks much smoother and more
natural. Block artifacts almost gone, posterized colors fixed, areas with
near white and black are with much greater definition.

Don't send the set back before you really tweak it. I think this set has
more ability to tweak than most, and I think you will be disappointed if you
trade for another, especially if you spend more money to do it. I am amazed
how good DVD's look (again with 'standard' rather than default 'vivid'
setting). The resolution and color are spot on. Hard to imagine that true
HDTV could be any better. The only thing I see that is not like viewing film
is that in a dark room, the black level is not perfect. Still just a little
gray, but quite acceptable. Nothing like the last generation Sony LCDs. The
only down side to watching DVD's is that I can't pay attention to the plot.
Just keep thinking 'damn what an awesome picture'.

DAW

"Bruce Stedman" <brucestedman@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I recently purchased a Sony KF-50WE610 50 inch LCD Projection TV. It
> looked great in the store and overall I'm very happy with my purchase.
> But I was curious if others have seen an issue with the screen, in
> that, I find that my attention is sometimes drawn to the physical
> screen when there are pure white objects being projected. An example
> might be, during a baseball game, the white uniform of the player
> stands out. It seems to be a manufactured "pattern", almost a sparkle
> effect that is apparent on the screen, but only at high light
> intensity levels. If there an adjustment that I might be able to make
> to improve the situation? (I also have a lot of sunlight in the room
> during the day, so I have boosted the brightness and picture levels a
> bit. I also don't want to watch a dim TV!)
>
> In addition it seems that objects that are in motion, such as the
> scrolling marquee in news casts, are somewhat blurred (not crisp) and
> dimmer compared to normal text on the screen. I have tivo and I
> noticed when I pause the screen the brightness of the moving text is
> normal. I should point out that I have DirecTV but not in high
> definition, so Im using the S-Video input. So Im not sure if this is
> just a side effect of the lower signal quality.
>
> I find the "sparkle" can be distracting and hard on the eyes and can't
> help wondering if I should have bought the 60" XBR or a plasma screen
> over this unit.
>
>
> (PS I do normally sit about 12-15 feet from the TV. If Im in my
> kitchen, say about 25 feet away, I do not see this "sparkle effect".)
>
> Any thoughts?
> Thanks!