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In Reply to: RE: Class D posted by goldenthal on December 20, 2016 at 19:25:13
Using my All-Band portable radio for a detector, I actually find my PLASMA TV to be a far worse radiator of RFI / Hash than my sub with its 'D' amp.
Too much is never enough
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Still using CRTs. But I infer that plasma is now over?
Jeremy
Yes, I'm thinking Plasma is 'history' now.
While Plasma IS better than most LCD/LED sets of the same time, the problem is that I don't think Plasma was adaptable to the new 4k resolution.
First Pioneer, with the ground AND wallet busting KURO sets dropped out. Later, Panasonic dropped than finally LG and either Sanyo or Samsung.
The last generation of Plasma sets were AWESOME to look at.
Power consumption was also probably an issue. They tend to run WARM which is good in winter and NOT so good in summer!
Maybe a 4k plasma WAS possible, but would have been a real wallet buster. Sales numbers were down. So unit cost to justify the R+D / development would have been high.
The replacement is better than them ALL in the form of the OLED panels from LG. This is also an 'emissive' rather than 'transmissive' tech and has a good viewing angle and all the other virtues of a top-display. Expensive, but worth it to the videophile.
Go test view an OLED set. You'll see that with good source material, NO CRT can keep up.
Too much is never enough
Yes, I have seen and been impressed by plasma sets, and I agree that they are much better than my CRTs and better than LED sets I have seen. However, broadcast content I find of worth insufficient to drive me to new technology before the old craps out. Not that there aren't great movies around, but even them I watch more as literature than as visual art. Just me -- born short of part of a faculty (largely colour-blind, hyperopic, &c.).
Jeremy
I only need keep in mind that about 1/2 the sets sold in the US are NEVER adjusted for color.
Many of these are the same persons who find MP3 to be 'hifi' and a compressed-to-death JPG to be all OK.
Too much is never enough
"I only need keep in mind that about 1/2 the sets sold in the US are NEVER adjusted for color. "
I wanted to reply to this right away and got distracted.
Why bother calibrating the set when half the movies are in blue and white or green and white or whatever ? I don't get where moviemakers got that shit in their head but it makes me want to turn the color all the way down.
Actually I only was exposed to it some, I don't really actively watch it. If I do I prefer stuff that is like 20 years old or older. Now alot of that had good color rendition.
And the MP3 thing ? I don't care what they do with today's music. It is like the TV and movies, everything worth writing has been written and now it is just a matter of adapting the plot or whatever and snazzing it up.
Tell the themoviemakers I have no need to see all the cool shit their super MAC computer can do. I also have no need for the 13th remake of a song that was written in the 1930s but now uses a synthesizer with 140,000 voices.
I'd suggest that most videophiles OWN or Acquire media and do NOT watch over small dish or Cable.
Both of them are compressed to death. My 'hi-def' over small dish looks about as good as a regular, upsampled DVD. Standard def is almost All soft by comparison.
Nobody at those services wants to talk about compression. Audio and Video.
I can hardly wait for 4k video. Small Dish will destroy it, I'm sure.
A movie like AVATAR, when properly shown, might make all the hassle worthwhile. For a number of years, equipment testers used the Bruce Willis SciFi entry 'The Fifth Element' as a standard.
And yes, I see some color shifts. Some movies stored for a long time have degradation in the emulsion which causes color shift. A GOOD TRANSFER to Digital should address that. And the sound, too.
I have a BR transfer of The Omega Man. Good SciFi starring Chuck Heston. Transfer is pretty good and sound is MONO, I think. The Transfer of 2001, Space Odyssey is much better both visually and audibly. Great job.
And yes, I'm sick and tired of 'franchise movies' endlessly repeating and recycling about a dozen scripts.
That's why a few 'gems' are appreciated all the more.
Too much is never enough
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