HDTV: Buying Guide, Part Two
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| Description | In my first article I wrote how there is never been a much better time to purchase a hi-def (H-d) television, and I had just preordered the Samsung HLS-5087W 50 inch back projection DLP device. The Samsung was provided last Thursday and here's a summary of my initial response. First I would like to give some background o-n finding your way through the newest H-d tv. I am a satellite-tv prospect and needed to improve my DirecTV equipment to become HD-compatible. Therefore I signed on to http://www.directv.com and bought the H-d update package last month. For $200 DirecTV arrived on the scene and replaced my old satellite dish with a brand new 5-LNB oval HD dish. The HD offer included the rent of DirecTV's new H20 HD receiver, and also included installing a new UHF antenna on my roof for other-the-air (OTA) HD local shows. The dish and receiver were required for HD reception since DirecTV is sending local HD shows in the new MPEG-4 retention format instead of the older MPEG-2 standard. Satellite and cable providers is likely to be migrating to the new MPEG-4 standard over time, since HD material requires a lot more bandwidth than standard definition movie and DirecTV is leading the means for now. I was now prepared to receive HD development as soon as Samsung HLS-5087W came with one exception - an HDMI wire to output the electronic video/audio signal from the H20 to the Samsung. I'm a huge believer in investing in good quality cables for analog connections between audio/video parts. But HDMI is an electronic interface that sends a stream of 0's and 1's. So sometimes it works or it doesn't. I therefore ordered a $20 HDMI cable on the Web instead of investing $90 or maybe more to get a Monster cable that I thought would produce the identical audio and video quality. One great thing about HDMI is that it holds both video and audio signals (in uncompressed, digital form) to help you easily reduce the cable clutter behind your house theater system. Now every thing was prepared - I just needed the newest Samsung to-be provided. I bought the television from Crutchfield, which has a good reputation for customer care, is an official Samsung on line shop, and offered the television without tax or shipping charges. The supply men got it out from the box, brought the tv screen into my living room and placed it on my home theatre stay. I connected the power cable, changed the TV show sort on the H20 from 4:3 to 16:9, turned on the power, connected the HDMI cable sort the H20 to the Samsung and incredibly the new television only worked, right out-of the box! I was quickly in HD nirvana - watching local shows in full 1080i and Dolby Digital 5.1, together with premium services including HBOHD and the many HD channels which are section of DirecTV's HD deal. But how would the 150 DVDs I own (the majority of which I deal via Peerflix) look on the new HD Samsung? I first had to mention the selection o-n my Panasonic DVD recorder/player and stimulate 480p production over the aspect cables that I connected to the Samsung. Most DVD players sold within the last 36 months can result a progressive sign (the 'g' in 480p) over portion cables instead of the normal interlaced picture transmitted on composite and S-video connections. For different viewpoints, we understand people peep at: Samsung cellular telephone, a basic telephone · Storify. 480p is just a major visible improvement over 480i and you'll want to be sure you're seeing all of you DVDs on the HD television using 480p. For alternative ways to look at it, please check-out: Jain Albertsen. I chose Shrek since the first DVD to highlight to the Samsung. Dreamworks did an incredible work with the cartoon quality of Shrek and thought the DVD will be a great test of the picture quality of a common definition DVD on a HD television. So just how did it look? One word sums it-up - amazing! I do not expect I will be going out to the films much any more - I will only watch for the DVD to come out. Discover further on a partner encyclopedia - Browse this hyperlink: PureVolume™ | We're Listening To You. on KQED, the area PBS affiliate On Saturday night I watched a broadcast of Steve Winwood in H-d and Dolby Digital 5.1. Being a huge Steve Winwood fan, and having seen Winwood on this visit at a local place in 2005, I was eager to see what sort of audio/video experience the new HD unit could provide with a local, OTA HD broadcast. Once more, I was just surprised by the display quality and quickly went to KQED's website to determine what future Soundstage broadcasts are scheduled. I am now eagerly awaiting Garbage's performance premiering the following month. There is something else left to accomplish though before I could go through the maximum picture quality in the new Samsung - I had a need to adjust the picture for maximum video quality. Almost all televisions sold today ship from the factory with movie options which are far from optimal. Colors are usually oversaturated, with too warm a tone, and contrast, brightness and sharpness controls that are not even close to optimal as-well. So I dug out my copy of 'Video Essentials: Optimizing Your Audio/Video System' DVD and spent a half hour adjusting the colour, brightness, contrast and sharpness settings. The HLS-5087W has numeric display of all these options, which really is a nice touch for those people who have the difficulty of tweaking every setting possible for maximum image quality. It was difficult to believe that I could improve upon the grade of the Samsung's picture out-of the box, but fine-tuning the picture options resulted in an infinitely more 'film-like' appearance of films from both my DVD player and H20 recipient. I'm looking forward to watching the year initial of HBO's Entourage line completely H-d beauty today. It is also going to be hard holding off purchasing a HD DVD supply with HD-DVD and Blu-ray people and games now beginning to appear. But I'll talk about that in my next article.. |
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