[opendtv] TV Images to Dazzle the Jaded
- From: Monty Solomon <monty@xxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 01:56:37 -0400
State of the Art
TV Images to Dazzle the Jaded
By DAVID POGUE
The New York Times
May 1, 2008
Modern tech life teems with longstanding quandaries, questions that
never seem to go away. Mac or Windows? Turn off the computer every
night or let it sleep? Plasma or L.C.D.?
Fortunately, that last question will soon have an answer. There's a
new TV on the block, and its picture is so amazing, it makes plasma
and L.C.D. look like cave drawings.
It's called organic light emitting diode, or O.L.E.D. This technology
has been happily lighting up the screens of certain cellphone and
music-player models for a couple of years now, but Sony is the first
company to offer it in a TV screen. It's called the XEL-1, and it's
available only from SonyStyle stores. Its picture is so incredible,
Sony should include a jaw cushion.
At a cooperative Best Buy store, I did a little test. I set the XEL-1
up next to state-of-the-art plasmas and L.C.D. sets - all hooked up
to the same video signal for easy comparison - and recorded the
reactions of shoppers and employees. Their adjectives for this
picture included "astonishing," "astounding," "incredible" (twice)
and "amazing" (five times).
They were right. The XEL-1's picture is so colorful, vibrant, rich,
lifelike and high in contrast, you catch your breath. It's like
looking out a window. With the glass missing.
Name a drawback of plasma or L.C.D. - motion blur, uneven lighting
across the panel, blacks that aren't quite black, whites that aren't
quite white, limited viewing angle, color that isn't quite true,
brightness that washes out in bright rooms, screen-door effect up
close - and this TV overcomes it.
...
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/technology/personaltech/01pogue.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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