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In Reply to: Re: false contouring posted by LarryI on September 21, 2005 at 07:05:57:
You may want to get the display checked out, just to be safe. Rich Harkness wrote a rather long and detailed review of a Sony Qualia 70" model in the Plasma and Flat Panel LCD Displays section of AVS Forum. He did not give the impression that the Sony had any problems with SD signals or false contouring. At least not anything that stood out in his comparison of the display to the 65" Panasonic plasma. If your Sony does indeed use 12-bit processing, noise and false contouring should be nearly eliminated.Many manufacturers have been remiss about 1080p input and it's a mistake. Sony's excuse was that it had to do with copy protection. What? Who did they think they were kidding? The HDCP encryption process has nothing to do with the resolution of the signal. Absolutely nothing: what a joke. Other manufacturers' main excuse was that there is no 1080p content. Seems rather retarded, as 1080p content will be available with the next gen discs in about 6 months. They're selling sets that will be obsolete very shortly in the sense that they will not be able to take full advantage of what the next gen format will offer. Or maybe it's just that they want to offer "new and improved" displays for people to buy in about 6 months (just look at those silly DLP 960x1080 MMDs being sold -- still called "1080p" displays -- that will shortly be replaced by TI's new DLP 1920x1080 MMDs)? Or maybe they didn't want to up the $3 additional cost for the HDMI receiver chip that accepts 1080p? Whatever. I wouldn't buy a 1920x1080 display that didn't accept a 1080p signal via a digital (HDMI and/or DVI) input.
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