The remote is a good one. It can control four components apart from the set itself. It required a tedious page-by-page search to find the right information.
In two of our standard tests, I had to use a nonobvious Film Mode option to get a passing result Film Mode Off for one of our jaggies tests and Film Mode On for a cadence test. But for most normal program material, whether film- or video-based, Film Mode On proved to be an artifact-free option. This indicates that movies at i will show artifacts from time to time. On my first go-round with real program material, the Sharp showed no obvious weaknesses.
In the Low setting of the Color Temp control, the picture had a very slight blue shift. The default Enhanced Color Gamut setting was clearly overripe, and I quickly abandoned it in favor of Standard, which was much better but still appeared to be a bit oversaturated. Search form Search. Thomas J. Norton Apr 9, NEXT: Page 2 ». Log in or register to post comments. Create new account Request new password. View the Cornerstone Design.
Enhanced Black Level provides the deepest, most accurate black of any flat panel TV. Five-wavelength Backlight System enables the display of very deep greens and crimson reds, widening the available color spectrum.
You can put them virtually anywhere — even near windows, doors or other light sources — and the picture is still vivid. TV Reviews. Though nice and slim, both of these sets use constantly lit fluorescent lamps. While contrast on these smaller TVs didn't immediately seem as good, I got a sneaking suspicion that LED backlighting is, at least in part, a psychological trick. See, constant FL light means that, when watching 2. You perceive that contrast to be better since there are fewer dead giveaways of less-than-perfect contrast.
I'm not trying to uncover a mystery here; I'm just saying that once I ignored the light shining through the black bars, I was happy enough with the contrast and color—demonstrated below by Disney's new Sleeping Beauty Blu-ray, our friend HD Guru Gary Merson's favorite color-gamut test source along with, naturally, Southland Tales —on both the JVC and Hitachi.
Sometimes "good enough" is actually "good. Both the Sharp and the JVC, which in many ways could not be more different as TVs, lost color saturation and even shifted in tint when viewed from the most peripheral angles.
Viewing angle issues are far from new: Projection TVs and LCDs have continued to suffer from them for years and years in some cases decades. And maybe you think that it's no big deal, since most people watch a TV sitting head on. But I think that ultrathin TVs—intended to hang flush on walls, and without a pivoting mount—should be especially good looking at every angle where the picture is remotely visible.
The Hitachi alone managed to hold its colors to the very edge, losing only brightness, as you'd expect. New Hope In the end, I think this review session did more to renew my faith in LCD technology than it did to sell me on the whole ultrathin thing.
I spent years at line shows wondering why anyone would buy an LCD when plasma was an alternative, and even the amazing rise of Sony and Samsung in the LCD space was clouded by the simultaneous rise of all those extra-crappy savings-club TVs.
It's worth noticing that these ultrathin sets don't hail from the current Korean, Japanese or Chinese TV powerhouses. But as flagships from their companies, they do an even better job boding well for the whole industry, at least from a technical perspective.
Plasma can still enjoy its high noon, but at a cost—nothing here looked better than the Kuro, but it took twice the energy to deliver that marginally better picture. And when it comes to hanging these bastards on the wall, well, let's see if Pioneer's still going to make good on that ultra-ultrathin promise from last CES.
If not, these LCDs are going to be the slim-o-cizers to beat.
0コメント