RE: Interesting Plasma screen snippet...

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

I have a little program written by Nokia for setting up monitors.

It shows various crosshatch and other test patterns and graduated scales
for
correct brightness/contrast setting. I will dig out a copy and stick it on
a
website for anyone interested.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 13:15
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Interesting Plasma screen snippet...


Erm, slight correction there Tim ... until you upped the brightness a
couple
of notches there was no shadow detail. There's no such thing as "too
black"
(well, I suppose there is but not in this case). Basically the Panasonic
does have a black-black rather than the grey-black of most other plasmas
but
the way Tim had it set up - whilst technically correct acording to Avia -
left the suits of armour in Gladiator as having no noticable detail. Just
lifting the brightness allowed the Panasonic to resolve detail on the
costumes.

This isn't in any way trying to deny that the Panny isn't a major
improvement on the plasmas that have gone before.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Timothy Morris [mailto:timothy.morris@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 25 April 2001 12:40
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Interesting Plasma screen snippet...
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Harris [mailto:phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 25 April 2001 10:24
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Interesting Plasma screen snippet...
> >
> >
> >
> > Don't fidget too much ... plasmas are still *generally* quite
> > unsatisfying.
> >
> > When I get the chance (i.e. when I'm not battling BT) I have to
> > put up a bit
> > of a writeup on Tim Morris's Panny plasma which I must admit to
> > being pretty
> > impressed with. It's the only one that I have been at all pleased
by
> > though...
> >
> > Phil
> >
> I'll second that, Plasmas are *generally* horrible, unless
> you like your
> blacks dark grey and horrible banding across colour fades.
>
> Panasonic have done something quite clever with their 42" panel
which
> reduces discharge voltage (or something) so blacks do
> actually look black
> (in fact for Phil, until I increased the brightness control a
> few notches
> some of the blacks were too black). The Panasonic also
> displays 1024 shades
> of grey rather than the 512 that most do.
>
> I'm not saying that these panels won't be good, they may have
> come up with
> their own way of doing the same thing, but bear in mind that
> when speaking
> to the Panasonic help line last week, they told me that their
> 50" panel, due
> on the 1st June doesn't have the same picture quality as the 42"
one.
>
> Tim.
>
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