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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.
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The set was poorly calibrated. The likely suspect is that the sharpness control was turned up way too high, which is what most people do unless they use a calibration DVD or BluRay. It's also possible that the TV had a motion-smoothing feature--a lot of people fool around with its various settings to get something that looks right to them, others turn it off altogether.
...I've heard it can be calibrated out by changing settings. But it was one reason I bought a Plasma instead of an LCD.
It's also why I bought a plasma, much more natural to my eyes.
...Though I think most LCD sets have the effect you describe to some degree.
I find Plasma to be more natural than LCD.
Just my opinion for my eyes.
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Sox
Definitely a bad set-up. I go through this all the time at friends homes. I tell them to turn down the sharpness control which when overdone will give a "line effect" against edges.
They don't trust their own eyes. Their thinking is the higher the sharpness control is set, the sharper the picture. "Brighter is better" is another belief. Also, I tell them automatic digital noise reduction should be "off". Their response is it must be good because it's there.
Makes me want to scream!
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