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lee31
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OK, all set up now
First opinion with TV was "bloody hell, aint it big" lol when turning it on for the 1st time, SKY kicked in on kids Boomerang channel, Dora The Explorer was crystal clear, absolutely superb picture & pretty good sound through TV speakers too. I let the kids enjoy it till bed time, then had a fiddle. As with all new gadgets, I think it is a tendancy to look for faults, which I have done & in truth, found some. Black & Whites on REAL broadcasts could be better, the do suffer from colour wheel distortion but only at viewing distances under 3 metres and as my normal viewing distance is just short of 4 metres, I am happy. I have spoken to Tosh about this & they say its NOT a fault but if I start to notice it from 4 Metres then get Tosh engineer in to look & they have advised me to use the Xmas period to keep an eye on it, nevertheless, gotta say, Im well pleased with the TV although for me, it does have a few annoying quirks eg, you have to use two digits for direct channel change, eg fromm BBC1 need to press 04 to get to channel 4, Last channel button doesnt recognise AV channels, eg if on AV1 & I press last channel, goes to eg ITV, if I then press last channel again, it stays on ITV & wont go to AV1
Also, which this I find very annoying, when TV starts, it automatically goes to SKY, if I then turn my DVD player on, DVD channel automatically appears (But only if scart connected) which is what you expect, but, if from SKY, I choose a terrestial channel, then put SKY back on, then turn DVD player on, the DVD channel is NOT automatic - I find that annoying
I have connected my DVD player by both RGB scart & HDMI, I have had to do this purely for auto-channeling as if only connected via HDMI you have to phisically turn the TV over to HDMI channel, this normally wont bother most of you but my wife & kids arnt bothered (nor do I want to tell them) how to work the TV properly, so connecting scart aswell, allows auto-channeling when the kids want to watch a DVD when Im not in.
The DVD player is superb too, very swish slimline design with blue led's & a nice looking transparant DVD tray with blue tint.
I have so far tested the DVD with R1, R2, DVDR-V, DVDR-MP3 & CDR-MP3
With exception of the DVDR-MP3 all played superbly both through RGB & HDMI and have had no problems at all with NTSC signals although automatically, I set the DVD player so's that an NTSC signal is trasmitted in NTSC (default was to convert it to PAL) - oh and HDMI sound could not decode the sound for CDR-MP3 but I have since turned off the sound option for HDMI as I run all my sound cables to a Marantz SR7300 receiver
Although I have only had the TV & DVD for 48 hours, I would say now that I am very very pleased with it all, I will spend some time tonight testing with different types of films where lighting & speed of movies may result in viewing changes eg, plan to test with films like Matrix R2, Pitch Black R1, Armageddon R1 Criterion, LOTR trilogy R1, Crouching Tiger R2 Superbit, Driven R3, Independence Day R4 & will try some slow films like Jerry Maguire etc.. then will test on animated DVD's like Monster Inc & Shrek to give the colours a real test - I watched Ronin DTS R2 Jap import last night & that was top drawer.
If any1 has any ideas on another film to test on this system, let me know what you think would be good as I may well have it as I have around 800 DVD's from all corners of the globe
I am also awaiting delivery of some official Microsoft Component leads for my Xbox & as soon as they come, I'll link it up to the TV & have a blast
Will be back with more info - thats if its of use ?
Lee
First opinion with TV was "bloody hell, aint it big" lol when turning it on for the 1st time, SKY kicked in on kids Boomerang channel, Dora The Explorer was crystal clear, absolutely superb picture & pretty good sound through TV speakers too. I let the kids enjoy it till bed time, then had a fiddle. As with all new gadgets, I think it is a tendancy to look for faults, which I have done & in truth, found some. Black & Whites on REAL broadcasts could be better, the do suffer from colour wheel distortion but only at viewing distances under 3 metres and as my normal viewing distance is just short of 4 metres, I am happy. I have spoken to Tosh about this & they say its NOT a fault but if I start to notice it from 4 Metres then get Tosh engineer in to look & they have advised me to use the Xmas period to keep an eye on it, nevertheless, gotta say, Im well pleased with the TV although for me, it does have a few annoying quirks eg, you have to use two digits for direct channel change, eg fromm BBC1 need to press 04 to get to channel 4, Last channel button doesnt recognise AV channels, eg if on AV1 & I press last channel, goes to eg ITV, if I then press last channel again, it stays on ITV & wont go to AV1
Also, which this I find very annoying, when TV starts, it automatically goes to SKY, if I then turn my DVD player on, DVD channel automatically appears (But only if scart connected) which is what you expect, but, if from SKY, I choose a terrestial channel, then put SKY back on, then turn DVD player on, the DVD channel is NOT automatic - I find that annoying
I have connected my DVD player by both RGB scart & HDMI, I have had to do this purely for auto-channeling as if only connected via HDMI you have to phisically turn the TV over to HDMI channel, this normally wont bother most of you but my wife & kids arnt bothered (nor do I want to tell them) how to work the TV properly, so connecting scart aswell, allows auto-channeling when the kids want to watch a DVD when Im not in.
The DVD player is superb too, very swish slimline design with blue led's & a nice looking transparant DVD tray with blue tint.
I have so far tested the DVD with R1, R2, DVDR-V, DVDR-MP3 & CDR-MP3
With exception of the DVDR-MP3 all played superbly both through RGB & HDMI and have had no problems at all with NTSC signals although automatically, I set the DVD player so's that an NTSC signal is trasmitted in NTSC (default was to convert it to PAL) - oh and HDMI sound could not decode the sound for CDR-MP3 but I have since turned off the sound option for HDMI as I run all my sound cables to a Marantz SR7300 receiver
Although I have only had the TV & DVD for 48 hours, I would say now that I am very very pleased with it all, I will spend some time tonight testing with different types of films where lighting & speed of movies may result in viewing changes eg, plan to test with films like Matrix R2, Pitch Black R1, Armageddon R1 Criterion, LOTR trilogy R1, Crouching Tiger R2 Superbit, Driven R3, Independence Day R4 & will try some slow films like Jerry Maguire etc.. then will test on animated DVD's like Monster Inc & Shrek to give the colours a real test - I watched Ronin DTS R2 Jap import last night & that was top drawer.
If any1 has any ideas on another film to test on this system, let me know what you think would be good as I may well have it as I have around 800 DVD's from all corners of the globe
I am also awaiting delivery of some official Microsoft Component leads for my Xbox & as soon as they come, I'll link it up to the TV & have a blast
Will be back with more info - thats if its of use ?
Lee