I found a great post by ‘JasonWW’ over on AVS Forums discussing his fine tuning of his A2000 set to get the best image quality. He did notice throwing up some of the HDTV test patterns that the TV isn’t resolving the finest lines (images below), but that viewing HD signals looks excellent. ‘JasonWW’ also [...]
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Lamp life for Rear Projection TVs, Part 2
Well it seems my co-hort in HDTV internet-research, ‘Lohrville’, has dug up a gem of information about the cost of bulb replacements for the Mitsubishi series of televisions (XX731, XX732, XX831). Contrary to the original post I made here covering some lamp replacement costs for different TV manufacturers Gordon has dug up information from a [...]
Lamp life for Rear Projection TVs
‘Lohrville’ sent along some very interesting information pertaining to the lifespam and cost of replacing rear projection TV lamps. Here is the chart for quick reference: I did some digging and found the first trick to finding lamps online is to search using the word ‘lamp’ not ‘bulb’, I couldn’t find anything using ‘bulb’ and [...]
Uh Oh, Sparklies on the Mitsubishi 65731
‘mannyman2′ is reporting “sparks and flashes” during some scenes of a football game, mostly when the camera is zoomed in on a player and is panning (high motion in the background). It hasn’t been determined yet if the set is defective or of these are the “sparklies” people sometime report on rear projection televisions (I’ve [...]
Sony KDS-XXA2000, Green Blob Not Fixed
Well folks have been getting their A2000s shipping out to them and it looks like the speculation that the A2000 was simply a reboxed XBR1 set are true, the reports of green blobs and green haze are comming back. ‘jmubudman’ reported that his set has a green haze on startup here, and then ‘misterjensen’ corroborated [...]
HDTV's and Gaming, trying to avoid the lag
Some of you might not know this, but if you are looking into an HDTV and plan on gaming on it, you might want to do some research before deciding. Most of the newer HDTVs have native resolutions of 1080p. “Native resolution” meaning that is the only resolution the TV displays. Most all will infact [...]
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