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Since my HDTV purchase came down to two options, the Sony 34HS510 or the Toshiba 34HF83, and others might need some insight, I thought I would share my experience with these two sets. If you have either of these models and are content and don't want nagging thoughts about your purchase, then...

Thanks for trying to help me out. The color decoder items in my model are in the 2170P_4 submenu. And unfortunately, there is no 2150P_3 submenu. If only the service manual had some descriptions for the items!

Well I can't seem to find either in my 34HS510. I read elsewhere that these items have been taken out of the latest Sony's. Don't know if I believe that, but I can't find them to disprove it! Anyone know anything about this?

I've read in this forum that one should set the YDC or Y-DC setting in the Sony service menu to "0" to improve the retention of black levels. Looking through the service manual, however, I can't seem to find this item. Does anyone know if there's a new name for this item, or is it still in there...

How does the DC restoration compare between these two models?

The first set had a visual defect on the left side of the screen. With very dark images, one could see that about 1 inch of the left side of the screen was slightly lighter than the rest of the screen. It's a subtle problem and not visible most of the time. I asked for a replacement, and the...

Yikes, I've looked, but I don't seem to have these other problems that you guys speak of. Of course, my Toshiba is a Direct-view CRT, not a projection. I've already arranged for an exchange (at their expense, of course), so I hope the new unit doesn't have this problem or I'll have to consider...

Well, I'm thinking that since I just bought it (as in last week) then I'll have them send me a replacement unit. I'd rather not deal with Toshiba's tech service yet and possibly be without a tv for some amount of time. Unless this could be an easy in-home problem to repair?

I've discovered that my new Toshiba CRT HDTV may have a visual defect. About 2 inches from the left side of the screen, there's a fuzzy dark vertical bar of sorts (about 1/4" in width) that runs the entire height of the screen. It's very subtle and can only be seen with very dark images like...

Although Crutchfield's prices are usually average, they have excellent customer support. Their shipping charges are either free or low for large items ($29 on big tv's).

Hmmmm, I guess nobody here calibrates their tv's... In any case, I think the contrast and brightness might be fine after all. The culprit may be the color and tint settings. I used the blue filter to set the color settings as closely as I could, and then I used the red filter to fine-tune it...

Sorry for all the questions, but you guys know how it is! I've been running through DVE on my Toshiba 34hf83, and I can't seem to get the pictures settings down. Before I received my DVE disc, I used a DVD with the quick THX calibration. After going through DVE a few times, my settings are...

I didn't have such a test disc before but now I do! And it appears that in Movie mode, SVM is off (or too low for me to tell), and it is 'high' for Sports mode and 'low' for Standard mode. I don't know why they couldn't just include a simple dedicated SVM option, without charging $200 more.

I recently asked this question on the newbie forum, and the general feeling was to avoid Monster. Supposedly, the top Monster cables (z-something), which are very costly, are comparable to the bluejeans cables, which are much cheaper. I decided to go with bluejeans.

wow, so you can actually set the degree of SVM, huh? When you go into "Movie" picture mode, does it automatically set SVM to Low or Off? Or is SVM unaffected by whatever picture mode you're in, in your model? Upon further research at keohi.com I discovered that Toshiba has locked out access...

Does it give you options as to the degree of SVM, like High, low, or Off? And if so, is there a significant difference between Off and Low? I wonder if the choice of degree of SVM is available only in the Toshiba projection models and the CRT's only have Off and On, which, as you said, is...

I've read in this forum that to disable SVM on some of the Toshiba models that do not have a specific option, one must switch to "movie" picture mode and work from there. But, I've read elsewhere that in movie mode, SVM is actually set to "low" not off. The only way to completely disable it is...

hahaha, you know, I figured that there would be some valuable tidbit in the primer regarding this issue, but I couldn't find it. If only I had searched instead for comments written by this mystersious "vince".

I too was trying to decide between these two. I saw a side by side comparison of these two models, and both looked equally good. I can't say, however, if either one was fully optimized, but assuming that both had the same degree of fine-tuning (or lack of), then the performance of the two are...

As I understand it, LOTR and other movies were filmed with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, which is wider than the 1.78:1 AR that HDTV's must adhere to. So does this mean that when watching anamorphic dvd's with an aspect ratio of 2.35:1 on a widescreen tv, there will still be black bars on the top and...

I've found that after a few days of obsessing over these things, I usually get frustrated with the many options and make a decision. I'll skip the few days part: blue jeans it is!

I hate purchasing cables and speaker wire, because there's so much misinformation and garbage out there. In my opinion, it's the WORST part of building a home theater. Well, I believe the Monster 2 package has an HDTV label while the Monster 1 package does not, but is this just a bunch of...

I'm looking at buying some component cables to connect my DVD player to my HDTV. Is it worth paying ~$60 for Monster2 cables or is the cheaper Monster1 good enough. I've read about Monster products being overpriced, so is a brand such as Acoustic Research cables just as good for less than half...

Supposedly, these salesmen also said that a tilted display causes burn-in, so I'm thinking that it's a bunch of malarky. Not unexpected from these two electronic chains. Of course, my father believed them, but that's another problem...

My father was told by salesmen at two major electronics stores lately that setting a plasma at an angle is detrimental to it? My immediate response was to laugh, but is there any truth to this? I know that plasma tv's cannot be shipped lying flat, but does that mean that they can't be affixed to...

First off, what is Aspect ratio control in a TV? Is this the same thing as a when a widescreen TV stretches a 4:3 image to fit the screen, or is this something different? My first inclination is that it is different. What are the implications of having or not having aspect ratio control in a...

Thanks for bringing up the viewing angle because I need to remember that my oddly-shaped room warrants giving it special consideration. I think part of the problem has been psychologically caused by those punks at Best Buy (I hate that store). During my last visit, I noticed that the...

I am looking for an HDTV in the sub $2000 range and in the past few months I've done a fair amount of research, concluding that a 30-34" direct view CRT would be the best bet for a smaller room. CRT rear-projection first seemed like a good choice, but I watch a fair amount of standard 4:3 tv...