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Mitsubishi XX831 Series, They are Here!
Well it happened, after months of folks waiting in the official Mitsubishi XX731/731/831 owners thread, it happened, ‘Soundboy‘ headed down to his local B&M TV store and had one of the first looks at the 57831 and grabbed some shots, here they are: The last image was shot without a flash. A few things: The image [...]
Continue reading...What Does the Rainbow Effect (RBE) Look Like?
Friday, September 8, 2006
A lot of folks are confused when you talk about the Rainbow Effect or RBE for short. They don’t quite know what you mean. I ran across this perfect example of it, take a look: It’s caused by single-chip devices trying to display Red/Green/Blue colors at the same time. Most rear project televisions use a color [...]
Continue reading...Mitsubishi XX831 Series to Include High-Gain Low-SSE Screen
Thursday, September 7, 2006
For those of you waiting to buy an HDTV and are current looking at bigger screens like the 60 or 70″ XBR2 from Sony, 71″ from Samsung, or the 65″ from Mitsubishi there are two things you are aware of with RPTV’s that likely concern you: Rainbow Effect (RBE) Silk Screen Effect (SSE) With the addition of faster [...]
Continue reading...Professional ISF Calibrators on AVS Forum
Saturday, August 19, 2006
The question of professional ISF calibration for new HDTV sets has been coming up a lot in the Mitsubishi 731/732/831, Sony KDS-XXA2000 and Samsung thread… most likely others as well. The reason it keeps coming up is that there is a set of 4 or more common posters to AVS that are infact professional ISF [...]
Continue reading...Lamp life for Rear Projection TVs, Part 2
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Well it seems my co-hort in HDTV internet-research, ‘Lohrville’, has dug up a gem of information about the cost of bulb replacements for the Mitsubishi series of televisions (XX731, XX732, XX831). Contrary to the original post I made here covering some lamp replacement costs for different TV manufacturers Gordon has dug up information from a retailing [...]
Continue reading...Lamp life for Rear Projection TVs
Friday, August 11, 2006
‘Lohrville’ sent along some very interesting information pertaining to the lifespam and cost of replacing rear projection TV lamps. Here is the chart for quick reference: I did some digging and found the first trick to finding lamps online is to search using the word ‘lamp’ not ‘bulb’, I couldn’t find anything using ‘bulb’ and was [...]
Continue reading...Uh Oh, Sparklies on the Mitsubishi 65731
Friday, August 11, 2006
‘mannyman2′ is reporting “sparks and flashes” during some scenes of a football game, mostly when the camera is zoomed in on a player and is panning (high motion in the background). It hasn’t been determined yet if the set is defective or of these are the “sparklies” people sometime report on rear projection televisions (I’ve [...]
Continue reading...Rear Project HDTVs to Want (Sony A2000/XBR2, Samsung LED/DLP, Mitsubishi XX732, HP XX80n)
Friday, August 4, 2006
Introduction The purpose of this post is to give a hard list of the rear projection televisions that consumers should keep their eyes out for. This list was compiled by determining a theme of the most discussed HDTVs from the AVS Forum Rear Project Units thread over the last year. Given the most discussed HDTVs I [...]
Continue reading...HDTV’s and Gaming, trying to avoid the lag
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Some of you might not know this, but if you are looking into an HDTV and plan on gaming on it, you might want to do some research before deciding. Most of the newer HDTVs have native resolutions of 1080p. “Native resolution” meaning that is the only resolution the TV displays. Most all will infact [...]
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Friday, September 8, 2006
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