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Completely out of the loop question

Posted by J.Mac on January 1, 2012 at 18:41:15:
I don't own a TV. What little TV I watch is done either online on the LCD monitor of my PC or else it's the occasional football or basketball game seen on a TV in a bar.

I jut got back from spending several weeks over the holidays at my brother's place. We watched some TV shows, some sports, and also watched a movie or two from DVD. His TV is an Insignia LCD, I'd guess 50 or 52". I also spent a couple evenings at my sister's place where she has a Samsung LCD.

On both sets I noticed something that I hadn't noticed before and that I found oddly disturbing. It had something to do with the lighting and made everything seem very other-wordly. Characters in the foreground seemed to be 'etched' or 'outlined' against the backdrop. I could actually see a slight glow around many of them. I noticed it also in the highlighting of reflected light, such as off of a person's hair, which seemed unnaturally intense. The effect seemed a little less noticeable as time went on, so I must have became accustomed to it somewhat, but never really completely got over it. The strangest thing is that it wasn't just a visual difference, but it made everything feel odd. Movies, especially, didn't seem to have the feel that I'd normally expect and the PRAT (to use an audio term) was totally off.