4 features that enhance TV picture quality
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4 features that enhance TV picture quality
Normal analog TVs, as opposed to digital TVs, have just a few factors
that affect picture quality. When shopping for a TV, look for these
features or characteristics and disregard other features that sound
good on the surface but in reality are just marketing ploys.
that affect picture quality. When shopping for a TV, look for these
features or characteristics and disregard other features that sound
good on the surface but in reality are just marketing ploys.
- Comb filter.
If a television does not have a comb filter, its resolution will be
limited to about half the full potential of DVD. Most sets with comb
filters can provide all of the resolution of DVD. The types of comb
filters you’ll see advertised, in order of lower to higher quality,
include two-line, three-line, digital, and 3D YC varieties. They
provide incremental improvements in performance, especially in reducing
rainbows that can appear in fine detail, such as a talking head’s suit
coat. Comb filters affect only composite-video or RF connections.
- Color-temperature settings.
Many televisions have presets for color temperature, which is basically
the color of gray. A neutral gray is ideal, but most TVs have an
extremely blue gray to make the picture brighter in the store. TVs with
color-emperature presets allow you to choose the color of gray;
generally, you’ll want the reddest or lowest setting available.
- Color decoder.
Most TVs’ color decoders are set to be too red to counteract the blue
color temperature described above. TV makers don’t advertise accurate
color decoders, so you’ll have to judge for yourself or trust a
reviewer. In the store, look for pale skin tones that don’t appear too
flushed and reds that don’t bleed into other colors or otherwise seem
more intense than the rest of the palette.
- Geometry and convergence. Most
TVs get bumped around in shipping, so it pays to check convergence
before you take yours home—or at least before the warranty expires.
Look toward the edges of the screen, preferably with graphics or other
straight lines (CNN’s crawling ticker works great), and see if the
lines are actually straight. To check convergence, look at the corners
with white material, preferably lines again, and see if faint halos of
color surround the white—ideally they shouldn’t.
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