Video Asylum

Posted by jeffreybehr (A) on February 21, 2008 at 17:06:17

In Reply to: RE: When you use your HT are your lights on or off? posted by Jazz Inmate on February 18, 2008 at 13:40:38

I keep a 15-watt incandescent lamp on behind the couch (low, below the top edge of the couch) and two 7-Watt incandescent (bare-bulb) nitelites behind the TV and rest of equipment. Overall, the color temp of my room and this lite is quite warm, but the overall lite level is rather low...gloomy in fact...maybe JUST a little brighter than a typical movie theater. If I read while watching, I turn on a 75-Watt incandescent behind me and to my left. Because it's somewhat high and I tilt the top of the TV toward me to reduce reflections, the picture is still QUITE good enough.

I have a 67" Samsung DLP-type RPTV that is often too bright even tho I've turned the normal white level/contrast control to zero and the maintenance WL/C control to its lowest setting.

I found that adding the little lites behind the TV reduced glare and eyestrain and hence headaches when I watch for more than a few hours.


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