Dude, you say nothing about the most important thing: Picture Quality...How does it stack up next to the Kuro? Do the colors pop more? I sort of thought they did, seeing it in the store, and I thought there was more detail (likes pores, the fabric on a shirt, etc) though obviously not better blacks...But I want an educated opinion...Also, is it much better than last year's 65 and 71 series from Samsung? How does it stack up next to the Sony XBR4/5 series, which got better reviews last year than the Sammys. These are the things I want to know.
Anyway, wish you'd said more about all this stuff, because it's far more important than the inputs/the wall mount, the swivel base, the sleep button, etc.
See, SONY uses a 3M anti glare filter. These both reduce glare, which in turn keeps it from changing the color value, AND blocks a miniscule amount of light. The Bravia Engine Pro does a great job of Dynamic Range Optimization (it appears to behave like that) to bring out the dark details and maintain a dark gradient. Samsung, as far as i know,is using stock ATi processors and hasn't adjusted it too much. They just 'let the light shine through' with what appears to be EXACTLY the same coversheet as a SONY XBrite laptop. In other words, more light is 'more contrast' technically, BUT, uh.. wow, the glare sucks big time. I tell everyone to treat these Reflective LCD Panels the same as a Plasma in where you want to place it. People still seem to like these to plasma since they appear to be sharper with 120htz. If Panasonic or Pioneer implement 120htz motion frame interpolation on their 480htz effective plasma panels, they would solve that issue. For my money,the best TV's on the market are Panasonics with AntiGlare coatings (better than their Anti Reflective coating) and an XBR4 or XBR5. Mid Range, Toshiba's look really nice when you turn down the Green Drive and increase the Blue Drive to compensate for the human eye's reception preferences. There is not enough significant difference between a Toshiba and a Vizio to warrent buying something that lowend. So, if you aren't spending much money, a lowerend SONY V panel or a Toshiba, if you are spending money, you need to check out the first two i talked about.
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jacob @ Apr 25th 2008 1:48PM
Dude, you say nothing about the most important thing: Picture Quality...How does it stack up next to the Kuro? Do the colors pop more? I sort of thought they did, seeing it in the store, and I thought there was more detail (likes pores, the fabric on a shirt, etc) though obviously not better blacks...But I want an educated opinion...Also, is it much better than last year's 65 and 71 series from Samsung? How does it stack up next to the Sony XBR4/5 series, which got better reviews last year than the Sammys. These are the things I want to know.
Anyway, wish you'd said more about all this stuff, because it's far more important than the inputs/the wall mount, the swivel base, the sleep button, etc.
ThePremierAssassin @ Apr 25th 2008 2:24PM
Couldn't have said it better myself...
However it appears that we need to go to cNet. There the only website I rely on nowadays for tech news and reviews.
ThePremierAssassin @ Apr 25th 2008 2:26PM
Couldn't have said it better myself...
However it appears that we need to go to cNet. There the only website I rely on nowadays for tech news and reviews.
John Willaford @ May 8th 2008 5:43PM
See, SONY uses a 3M anti glare filter. These both reduce glare, which in turn keeps it from changing the color value, AND blocks a miniscule amount of light. The Bravia Engine Pro does a great job of Dynamic Range Optimization (it appears to behave like that) to bring out the dark details and maintain a dark gradient.
Samsung, as far as i know,is using stock ATi processors and hasn't adjusted it too much. They just 'let the light shine through' with what appears to be EXACTLY the same coversheet as a SONY XBrite laptop. In other words, more light is 'more contrast' technically, BUT, uh.. wow, the glare sucks big time.
I tell everyone to treat these Reflective LCD Panels the same as a Plasma in where you want to place it. People still seem to like these to plasma since they appear to be sharper with 120htz. If Panasonic or Pioneer implement 120htz motion frame interpolation on their 480htz effective plasma panels, they would solve that issue.
For my money,the best TV's on the market are Panasonics with AntiGlare coatings (better than their Anti Reflective coating) and an XBR4 or XBR5.
Mid Range, Toshiba's look really nice when you turn down the Green Drive and increase the Blue Drive to compensate for the human eye's reception preferences.
There is not enough significant difference between a Toshiba and a Vizio to warrent buying something that lowend. So, if you aren't spending much money, a lowerend SONY V panel or a Toshiba, if you are spending money, you need to check out the first two i talked about.