Tom Koegel
Stunt Coordinator
- Joined
- Jun 30, 1997
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- 95
I've been playing around a bit with some quasi home theater PC applications. I have a Sony PC with a TV tuner an on-board MPEG2 encoder such that it emulates, sort of, a DVR like a Tivo or a Replay. (This is just a toy/test bed; this is not currently set up as part of my home theater system.) And I've often thought about the possibility of setting up some sort of large LCD monitor with a small PC as a bedroom home theater. What stops me in my tracks, though, is the extremely poor quality video presentation on computer monitors. To my eye, at least, this is not solely an LCD issue; I notice the same effect on conventional CRT monitors (although it is lessened). Colors looked washed out; resolution generally looks far weaker than on a standard TV set. Is this a brightness/contrast issue? Color temperature? Something else? I just got back from a CompUSA where they were running Jurassic Park III on one of those 24" Apple Cinema LCD monitors, and the picture looked "softer" than what I would expect on my 40" 16:9 non-HDTV RPTV. (Although I will say that it did not have the washed out look of my 18" Sony LCD or CRT monitors.)
Tom Koegel
Tom Koegel