RE: [OT] HD LCD TV - 26" recommendations?

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

They get the  same as they have been getting with a CRT TV for years...

... They have also been invariably supplied set up to "look good"
next to
all the other TVs in the shop (and to look impressive when you get it
home)=
.
Bright images, oversaturated colours, too much sharpness etc. Generally
onl=
y
the specialist manufacturers (Loewe for one) usually set their sets up
properly (or at least spend enough time doing so to get it half right).

Getting someone in to properly calibrate a display or projector does make
one hell of a difference (gets back a lot of the black level detail that
many people assume is a characteristic of poor contrast ratios but often
isn't) but generally costs about =A3350 - =A3400 a shot.

Phil

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> On Behalf Of Chris Hunter
> Sent: 10 June 2006 22:43
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] [OT] HD LCD TV - 26" recommendations?
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> Very odd , this ... if it takes that sort of tweaking, what=20
> does the average purchaser end up with ?
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> Chris
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> Ian Oliver wrote:
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> >In article
> ><A016D698CB79874CAE4CD3663E69BA49092035@xxxxxxx
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> >m>, Paul Gale wrote:
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> >>I'm looking for a 26" for the bedroom - with HD/VGA
inputs.
> >>Panasonic TX-26LXD500 at a grand-ish seems to be my first
choice.
> >>Any other serious options to this?
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> >I just got a Samsung LE26R74BDX 26" with Freeview and HDMI
input for
> >=A3587.43 at Costco. It's 1366x768.  rgbdirect have it for around
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> >The out-of-the-box setup is pretty bad PQ wise, but tweaking a
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> >settings, and delving into the odd engineering menu, and it's=20
> >absolutely fantastic.
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> >Ian Oliver
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