Sam R. Aucoin
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- Jul 5, 1999
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If this has been covered in another thread or should be somewhere else, I apologize - MY search did not find anything akin to this subject.
I have a fully, set-up HDTV theater as far as signals and display devices (Hitachi's latest plasma, Denon's 5900 DVD player, Hughes HD-HTL DirecTV receiver, and VOOM receiver, as well as a top-of-the-line OTA antenna with a rotor for local reception). I say this not to brag, but just to let you know what I am talking about (as I anticipate the statement: "Well tells us what you have, first.")
Are you all as "disappointed" as I am in the very broad spectrum of quality HDTV programming?
For example, I had my set calibrated by Gregg - excellent work, so this is NOT a commentary on Gregg's calibration.
I then (at his suggestion), "re-calibrated" minor things such as contrast, brightness, and color after I received my HDTV components using AVIA and DVE (I did not have any at the time he came - but he nevertheless did an "internal" calibration using an HD signal generator).
What I mean by "disappointed" is that I can watch an ABC program on one HDTV channel and then go to another, with the same HDTV programming on, and see a picture that is almost like "night and day" different than the first channel.
My HDTV channel "definers" are consistently PBS-HD (which I receive OTA), DirecTV HD-Discovery, HDNET, HDNET Movies, HBO-HD, sometimes ShowtimeHD, SOME of the VOOM HD channels (especially the news channel).
The other HDTV programming is such that I feel I would have to re-calibrate my display for every other channel, depending on what program is playing at the time.
I hope I am not alone with this . . .
Thanks in advance for any input.
Regards,
Sam
I have a fully, set-up HDTV theater as far as signals and display devices (Hitachi's latest plasma, Denon's 5900 DVD player, Hughes HD-HTL DirecTV receiver, and VOOM receiver, as well as a top-of-the-line OTA antenna with a rotor for local reception). I say this not to brag, but just to let you know what I am talking about (as I anticipate the statement: "Well tells us what you have, first.")
Are you all as "disappointed" as I am in the very broad spectrum of quality HDTV programming?
For example, I had my set calibrated by Gregg - excellent work, so this is NOT a commentary on Gregg's calibration.
I then (at his suggestion), "re-calibrated" minor things such as contrast, brightness, and color after I received my HDTV components using AVIA and DVE (I did not have any at the time he came - but he nevertheless did an "internal" calibration using an HD signal generator).
What I mean by "disappointed" is that I can watch an ABC program on one HDTV channel and then go to another, with the same HDTV programming on, and see a picture that is almost like "night and day" different than the first channel.
My HDTV channel "definers" are consistently PBS-HD (which I receive OTA), DirecTV HD-Discovery, HDNET, HDNET Movies, HBO-HD, sometimes ShowtimeHD, SOME of the VOOM HD channels (especially the news channel).
The other HDTV programming is such that I feel I would have to re-calibrate my display for every other channel, depending on what program is playing at the time.
I hope I am not alone with this . . .
Thanks in advance for any input.
Regards,
Sam