greg_t
Screenwriter
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There was an X0 that sold on ebay a couple of weeks ago. Went for a buy it now price around $2500 I think. I would like to see one, but the single side play only ruins it for me.
Have you ever seen a DLP display with a colour wheel? The colour fringing you get out of one of those by doing the same thing is unreal.Originally Posted by Chas in CT
The player-generated displays (Chapter, Audio, Play, Pause, etc.) had been quite tinged with color. In my haste that first evening, while totally distracted by the distorted picture, I didn't study it critically enough to realize that's where most of the "color" was. But also, there's a trick you can do with your eyes -- this may not work for everyone, but I and a few other people have noticed it: With a b&w picture on your screen, move your eyeballs rapidly from side to side or up and down, and you'll "create" fringes of color in the display. I get a flash of yellow and maybe some blue or green. I'm sure I was looking here and there that night, catching those quick flashes of "color", and not even thinking, I took it as part of the problem.
Originally Posted by Chas in CT
So then I discovered how to change the receiver setup, and reported no problem with b&w. Had I been looking more carefully at that point, I would have seen the color fringing still there on those player-generated displays. But the next thing to do was try the S-Video connection, and the first thing that jumped out at me was that it displayed those items perfectly, bold and clear, no color fringing at all. That in itself was enough for me to decide to stick with the S-Video, figuring that if it's making that obvious an improvement in those silly things, the rest is probably benefiting as well.
Now, having tried (and greatly enjoyed) several LDs, I can see that there is indeed an occasional bit of color creeping into a b&w picture. And this is on Criterion and other quality discs. In fact, a freeze frame always includes speckles of color, and I have no idea whether that was evident on the old TV. And it doesn't matter. It probably was, and it really amounts to nothing at all beyond making this observation. You said the issue is inherent in NTSC, so that has to be accepted. It's no more a problem than it ever was.