Not all HDTV are built the same.

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On 8 Sep 2004 17:57:02 -0700, <caloonese@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Recently the local Costco wired up a big component cable splitter to
> hook up all their HDTVs to the same HD signal. It is amazing to see
> how bad some models are when every single screen are showing the
> identical image. Some models were blurry, some have serious
> convergence problems. It is hard to tell which one is bad because of
> inferior circuitry and which one is just misaligned.

Blurry/convergence problems sounds to me like a lot of them were just not
calibrated correctly. They could probably be easily fixed by the user.


John.

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John 'Shaggy' Kolesar <spam@shagg.net> wrote in
news:slrncjvak7.avn.spam@weizen.shagg.net:

> On 8 Sep 2004 17:57:02 -0700, <caloonese@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Recently the local Costco wired up a big component cable splitter to
>> hook up all their HDTVs to the same HD signal. It is amazing to see
>> how bad some models are when every single screen are showing the
>> identical image. Some models were blurry, some have serious
>> convergence problems. It is hard to tell which one is bad because of
>> inferior circuitry and which one is just misaligned.
>
> Blurry/convergence problems sounds to me like a lot of them were just
not
> calibrated correctly. They could probably be easily fixed by the user.

Yep... a lot of stores just pull them out of the box and plug them in. I
tried that with my Samsung when I got it (it was a virgin still in the
shipping crate) and the pincushion effect on the raster was horrible.
Had to find a copy of the manual, make notes and set it up so that
pictures actually looked sane on it. It was especially bad with pillar-
boxed 16:9 as the TV is 4:3 and you got to see all four sides bowed
towards the screen center! Now it's 100% rectangular.



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A false witness is worse than no witness at all.

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Agree. I was happy with my SONY just out of the box. I did no
calibration except to use the one-touch focusing button on the front
of the TV. It would be a chore for non-techies to calibrate a TV.
Isn't TV supposed to be a turn-key system since decades ago? If I
want to buy a professional studio monitor, I would be paying a
different price and hire a full time technician to keep it in perfect
tuning. I expect it differently from a home TV.



fix_it wrote in message news:<0i60k05dumpkcbd0o3fesu5ne3rv5266q4@4ax.com>...
> On 9 Sep 2004 00:58:58 GMT, John 'Shaggy' Kolesar <spam@shagg.net>
> wrote:
>
> >On 8 Sep 2004 17:57:02 -0700, <caloonese@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Recently the local Costco wired up a big component cable splitter to
> >> hook up all their HDTVs to the same HD signal. It is amazing to see
> >> how bad some models are when every single screen are showing the
> >> identical image. Some models were blurry, some have serious
> >> convergence problems. It is hard to tell which one is bad because of
> >> inferior circuitry and which one is just misaligned.
> >
> >Blurry/convergence problems sounds to me like a lot of them were just not
> >calibrated correctly. They could probably be easily fixed by the user.
>
> LOL, yeah, you could probably re-engineer the power supply without too
> much problem too.
>
> If the mfg can't bother to do the job right why should I buy it ?