quality of LCD tvs

Hi All

Can anyone answer this for me?


When looking at a bank of LCD tvs for sale and some of them have
absolute rubbish pictures - garish colour, coarse image, no shadow
detail, no high light detail etc whilst others have good picture quality.

If all the rubbish pictures were on the own brand tvs of unknown
parentage that might make sense, but when you have Sonys and Panasonics
etc at 800 quid with garbage pictures and own brand looking pretty good
at half the price.

So whats going on? Is it just poor set up by the store? Do the tvs
interfere with each other as old CRTs were supposed to, and like the
CRTs when you get the tv home and plug it in the picture will be fine?

How can you tell how good the tv is in the shop?



regards



Dudley

Dudley Simons wrote:
Hi All

Can anyone answer this for me?


When looking at a bank of LCD tvs for sale and some of them have
absolute rubbish pictures - garish colour, coarse image, no shadow
detail, no high light detail etc whilst others have good picture
quality.
If all the rubbish pictures were on the own brand tvs of unknown
parentage that might make sense, but when you have Sonys and
Panasonics etc at 800 quid with garbage pictures and own brand
looking pretty good at half the price.

So whats going on? Is it just poor set up by the store? Do the tvs
interfere with each other as old CRTs were supposed to, and like the
CRTs when you get the tv home and plug it in the picture will be fine?

How can you tell how good the tv is in the shop?



regards



Dudley

Stores don't set them up, they simply unbox them tune them in and put them
on display. The same thing usually happens to TVs delvered to customers,
that's why many people are watching awful pictures that could easily be
improved.

....snip...

Decide what you will be watching and get the shop to hook that up for you.
Don't be fooled by that lovely HD picture only to get home and find that
upscaling from SD is rubbish.

In short, try them out. They may be badly set up, they may be badly
connected, they may just be useless models.

Also, don't think that, for example, all Sony models are as good as each
other. The more you pay, the better the "computer" inside is and the better
the picture should be, especially if upscaling for example. I've heard say
that the base ranges don't do anything other than duplicating a few pixels
whereas the better models actually try to "average" etc. to make an upscaled
image look much better.

If you're paying 800quid, make sure you get a good test drive first!

Paul DS.

On 18 Feb, 09:48, Dudley Simons wrote:
Hi All

Can anyone answer this for me?

When looking at a bank of LCD tvs for sale and some of them have
absolute rubbish pictures *- garish colour, coarse image, no shadow
detail, no high light detail etc whilst others have good picture quality.

If all the rubbish pictures were on the own brand tvs of unknown
parentage that might make sense, but when you have Sonys and Panasonics
etc at 800 quid with garbage pictures and own brand looking pretty good
at half the price.

So whats going on? *Is it just poor set up by the store? *Do the tvs
interfere with each other as old CRTs were supposed to, and like the
CRTs when you get the tv home and plug it in the picture will be fine?

How can you tell how good the tv is in the shop?

regards

Dudley

Find a store that can demo them properly. You may find some fed with a
1080p HD signal and other left with a rough composite video feed.
Poor signal and setup can't amount to anything regardless of who makes
the TV.
I ended upgeeting a Plasma rather than an LCD. The SD upscaling was
better than anything else for the money, even though most shops I saw
had it fed eith a poor signal (Samsung PS42Q97 - £700) and the blacks
are black, rather than being back lit grey. Comet had it fed with an
upscaled 1080i DVD feed which is just what I wanted.

Doc

Doc

On Feb 18, 10:16*am, "Paul D.Smith"
wrote:

If you're paying 800quid, make sure you get a good test drive first!

Paul DS.

Or alternatively, use the reviews of people who see these things day
in day out and therefore can make *relatively* sound judgements about
the quality. Its up to you who you trust on these sorts of things,
but if you can find two or three reviews which seem to point in the
same direction (e.g. SD picture quality is good, sound is adequate
etc) you can take some comfort and risk an online purchase (with all
of the distance selling protection that that offers).

For reference I used cnet.co.uk for some reviews plus hdtvorg.co.uk
and then some user opinions on avforums.co.uk to get reviews of a
panasonic tx-32lmd70 recently (which I then bought).

In the end I ended up with a TV that does what I needed it to (good
quality SD pictures and easy to use), so I'm happy!

Matt

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:48:58 +0000, Dudley Simons
wrote:

When looking at a bank of LCD tvs for sale and some of them have
absolute rubbish pictures - garish colour, coarse image, no shadow
detail, no high light detail etc whilst others have good picture quality.

Most stores only have a handful of TV with HD demos running on them,
the rest are plugged into the stores (usually abysmal) chained aerial
feed that I am amazed anybody would buy based on viewing. I chose my
Samsung demo'd in HD when the image quality compared very favourably
to other brands that cost twice the price next to it.
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Most stores only have a handful of TV with HD demos running on them,
the rest are plugged into the stores (usually abysmal) chained aerial
feed that I am amazed anybody would buy based on viewing. I chose my
Samsung demo'd in HD when the image quality compared very favourably
to other brands that cost twice the price next to it.
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Our local Comet has had a refit since this but before the first set in the
line had a superb picture and the others sort of average. I asked about
this and was told they had 2 aerials, 1 feeding this set the other feeding
all the others!

Yesterday I was in Currys and what a difference as I went from set to all,
but basically they fell in to groups. Half acceptable just, the rest poor.
I asked and found out the better ones being feed from a computer the rest
from an aerial.

It crosses my mind is it just bad practice or do they do it to sell certain
models, with the most profit.

You know like sweets in the supermarket at a child's eyelevel.

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Regards,
David

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