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Laptop Model Numbers are Confusing
I was looking around the web at some laptop’s from different manufacturers and while some are so clearly laid out from lowest to highest (Apple) others seemed to be named in a completely random fashion, making it impossible to tell a damn difference between them without seeing a side-by-side comparison matrix (Lenovo, Samsung). Are these companies [...]
Continue reading...Samsung HL-S7178W Pictures
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Ok this one is for the Samsung lovers out there, ‘RayPaganJR‘ asked me to host these shots for him over on AVS and it was just too pretty of a setup not to share with all of you… notice the THX-ceritifed power amp, combined with the Samsung BluRay player and some hugely complex tuner… it [...]
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...My Baby, the Samsung HL-S7178W
Tuesday, September 5, 2006
It’s true, I love it, the Samsung HL-S7178W. I was reading through the AVS owners thread last night and came across some new posts with pictures and some interesting comments from our local professional calibrator, Eliab. We covered Eliab a little bit before with his suggested settings for this TV that will give it the [...]
Continue reading...Optimal user settings for the Samsung HL-S7178W
Sunday, August 20, 2006
If you or someone you love has purchased or is purchasing the 71″ Samsung HL-S7178W behemoth: ‘paxi’ pointed me in the direction of recommended optimized settings from Eliab on AVS (Professional ISF calibrator). These are the settings you can realized out of the box using the user menu, no need to enter the service menu: Digital NR [...]
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
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...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, December 29, 2006
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