HDTV: Buying Guide, Part Two
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| Description | Within my first article I wrote how there's never been a much better time to purchase a high-definition (HD) television, and I had only preordered the Samsung HLS-5087W 50 inch back projection DLP product. The Samsung was sent last Thursday and here is a summary of my initial reaction. First let me give some back ground on finding your way through the brand new HD television. I am a satellite television customer and needed to upgrade my DirecTV equipment to be HD-compatible. So I logged on to http://www.directv.com and bought the H-d update offer last month. For $200 DirecTV arrived on the scene and changed my old satellite dish with a new 5-LNB oval HD dish. The HD offer included the rent of DirecTV's new H20 HD radio, and also included installing a new UHF antenna on my top to receive other-the-air (OTA) HD local contacts. In case people require to discover more on tabcasemonday's Profile | Armor Games, there are many resources people should pursue. The dish and receiver were needed for HD party since DirecTV is transferring local HD shows within the new MPEG-4 pressure format instead of the older MPEG-2 standard. Because HD material requires a lot more bandwidth than standard definition movie, satellite and cable providers is going to be migrating to the new MPEG-4 standard over-time and DirecTV is leading the way for now. I had been now ready to obtain HD programming when Samsung HLS-5087W appeared with one exception - an HDMI cable to output the electronic video/audio signal from the H20 to the Samsung. I'm a huge believer in buying high quality cables for analog connections between audio/video components. But HDMI is an electronic digital interface that sends a stream of 0's and 1's. So sometimes it works or it doesn't. I for that reason bought a $20 HDMI cable on line instead of investing $90 or even 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) so you can easily decrease the cable clutter behind your home theater system. Now every thing was all set - I just needed the newest Samsung to be delivered. Get supplementary information on a related site - Click this hyperlink: privacy. I bought the television from Crutchfield, which has a great reputation for customer care, is an authorized Samsung o-nline shop, and provided the television with no tax or shipping costs. The delivery people brought the tv screen in-to my living-room, got it out of the box and placed it on my home entertainment stay. I connected the power cable, changed the TV show kind on the H20 from 4:3 to 16:9, made on the power, connected the HDMI cable form the H20 to the Samsung and amazingly the new television just worked, right out-of the box! I used to be easily in HD nirvana - seeing local broadcasts entirely 1080i and Dolby Digital 5.1, together with advanced services such as HBOHD and the different HD stations which can be part of DirecTV's HD package. But how would the 150 DVDs I own (the majority of which I trade via Peerflix) look on-the new HD Samsung? I first had to bring up the selection o-n my Panasonic DVD recorder/player and activate 480p productivity over the portion wires that I linked to the Samsung. Most DVD players sold within the last few 36 months can result a progressive signal (the 'p' in 480p) over element wires rather than the normal interlaced picture transmitted o-n composite and S-video connections. 480p is a major visible development over 480i and it is in addition crucial to ensure you are seeing most of you DVDs on a HD television using 480p. For more information, consider checking out: relevant webpage. I decided Shrek while the first DVD to showcase about the Samsung. Identify supplementary resources on the affiliated web page - Navigate to this hyperlink: jump button. Dreamworks did an amazing job with the cartoon quality of Shrek and thought the DVD will be a great test of the image quality of a common definition DVD on a HD tv. So how did it look? One word sums it-up - wonderful! I don't expect I will be going out to the movies much any more - I'll just wait for the DVD to come out. On Saturday night I saw a broadcast of Steve Winwood in HD and Dolby Digital 5.1 on KQED, the area PBS affiliate. Being an enormous Steve Winwood lover, and having seen Winwood on this visit at a local location in 2005, I was desperate to see what type of audio/video experience the new HD unit might produce with a local, OTA HD broadcast. Once again, I was just surprised by the display quality and quickly went to KQED's site to see what potential Soundstage broadcasts are scheduled. I am now eagerly awaiting Garbage's performance premiering the following month. There was one more thing left to do though before I can feel the maximum picture quality in the new Samsung - I had a need to calibrate the picture for maximum video quality. Almost all televisions sold today ship from the manufacturer with video options which are far from optimum. Colors are on average oversaturated, with too warm a tone, and contrast, brightness and sharpness controls that are far from optimal as-well. So I dug out my copy of 'Video Essentials: Optimizing Your Audio/Video System' DVD and spent a-half hour altering the color, brightness, contrast and sharpness settings. The HLS-5087W has numeric display of all these controls, which really is a nice touch for those folks who feel the difficulty of tweaking every environment possible for maximum picture quality. It was difficult to believe that I can improve upon the grade of the Samsung's picture out of the field, but fine-tuning the picture controls triggered a much more 'film-like' appearance of movies from both my DVD player and H20 phone. I am excited to seeing the period premiere of HBO's Entourage series in full H-d wonder tonight. It's also going to be hard keeping off investing in a HD DVD source with HD-DVD and Blu-ray people and titles now beginning to appear. But I will speak about that in my next post.. |
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