Hi guys
Jeez I'm in the LCD forum!!!!!!
Tony & I have been playing for the last couple of hours or so in between taking phone calls.
KRL37
Firstly it looks stunning, brushed aluminium finish, and the screen is not the usual matt finish, its similar to the pio plasmas.
First, the bad, sorry LCD forum but its an LCD, and suffers from the usual issue, you have to be pumb in front of it to get the full colour and black range from it, anything off centre and it looses integrity, but on a possitive note its the best LCD I've seen from an angle above or below the screen.
The next issue is that it has no manual RGB adjustment so you can get the colour only so accurate, IE next to ISF'd plasmas the colour is just wrong. Its bleedin good but not right. Or put another way, if it was not next to an ISF'd plasma I suspect most people would be very happy, and you must take into consideration the environment here, we are geared up to show TV's properly NOT in garish shop mode.
Andrew the pixels are in a Triad array but unless you are 5 inches away you cant see this and a proper viewing distance for TV viewing this is simply a non issue cuz the pixels are so small. Real world contrast measurements will have to wait, and I feel it is irrelevent anyway, it goes darker that a Panny PF10, in the dark sat plumb in front of it its not far off an 8G plasma about Panny PZ level, and goes rediculously bright, you will not watching this in dark, with controlled light in the room and not much of it, it looks pretty dark.
What I can say is this is the best LCD I have seen by a country mile for processing. SD is stunning, up to the levels of the Pio plasmas, pictures from the Freeview tuner are exellent with very little artifacting that plagues every LCD I have ever seen. SD performance is far superior with bags more detail compared to the Panny PZ plasmas and certainly very very very close to Pio plasmas in that regard.
And as hard as Tony and I looked we could see NO banding, at all!! Even Virgin 1 was watchable.
Moving to HD fodder, this looks great, the Olympics on BBC HD and Eurosport HD look terrific with no sighn of the usual LCD smearing or lag. These sets are doing almost the same level of processing as the plasmas because scene cuts are just about the same speed compared to a Panny.
Onto blue ray and again this looks very very nice, handing 24P very smoothly, the set shows the resolution its receiving and the framerate unlike the plasmas. It looks very filmic and 3 dimentional.
Jaggies did not seem an issue and text on credits are were smooth in movement and "full and rounded in structure with no light bleed smearing"
The display is very uniform and no sign of clouding.
It has 8 inputs all individually selectable, 2 RGB scarts, 3 HDMI's 1 componant, 1 S-video (side) and VGA, the remote is solid and the same design (with even more buttons) than the plasma's.
Sound from the inbuilt speakers is very nice plenty of high end detail but reasonably rich but does pop a little if too much bass is applied.
I've just been in to watch a bit more with all other sets off "Ryan Giggs" tribute on SKY sports HD and the blacks are very good, certainly not 9G plasma black but almost at 8G black which is very black, certainly for an LCD.
Yes its nice, very nice in fact, is it worth the asking price, well its certainly pricey, but its processing is up to the Pio plasma standards which is away on its own, but LCD market is very price driven.
Its not going to fly off the shelves but it will appeal to people who are decerning and its going to need to have the finer points really demonstrated well if its going be considered. Good processing costs money and that is certainly where the premium cost is. Good external processors are usually £800 plus, and the on board processing here is superb, no other LCD gets close.
Its certainly the best domestic LCD I've seen, the only other I've vaguely thought was nice was the Sony 3500's but its certainly better than that.
This is their first effort at LCD and its very good, Im sure when reviews appear you will see a similar view.
But you need to see one and decide for yourselves, for me its an LCD and compared to a Pio 9G Plasma its black levels, dynamic range, viewing angles, real contrast ratio's and colour accuracy are not on the same hymn sheet. Processing, SD performance is and the absence of PMW noise is nice, but for overall picture quality you still cant beat the Pio plasmas, but as an LCD you may find at least for now, IMHO that these sets are going to set the LCD standard.
Onto blue ray and again this looks very very nice, handing 24P very smoothly, the set shows the resolution its receiving and the framerate unlike the plasmas. It looks very filmic and 3 dimentional.
Για να ισχύει αυτό που λες θα πρέπει να έχουν και παραπλήσιες επιδόσεις στους υπόλοιπους τομείς (χρώματα, μαύρο/αντίθεση, κίνηση κλπ).
Δηλαδή θεωρούμαι δεδομένο πως θα παίζει καλύτερα από οποιαδήποτε LCD κυκλοφορεί σήμερα ?
ναι αλλωστε δεν υπαρχει lcd στις 32'' στα 1500 ευρω.(σκετη χωρις φωτακια γυρω γυρω)
Πριν μια εβδομαδα περασα απο το πλαισιο και ειδα μια τηλεοραση LCD 70 inches τις Sony με 39,000 ευρω. :AFADF0: Τι ειναι αυτη? Αυτη θα δειχνει καλυτερα απο την Pio LCD?
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