Further to this thread, my Samsung SP50L7HX 50" DLP arrived today. I took the day off work today, and hastily set her up. Here's a quick phone pic, ignore the spaghetti of wires behind, I just quickly set it up as it'll all be moved soon as I'm re-decorating at the weekend:
Well what can I say? It's a stunning piece of kit, that pic doesn't do it anything like any justice. It just looks incredible, and that's even before it's switched on.
When I finally did power it up, if I'm honest I was a little underwhelmed, I went straight to an SD source and it didn't look great. Colours and contrast were amazing, but it really showed up the weaknesses of the SD signal. I was coming from a 28" Sammy CRT, and that gave a great picture on SD stuff. The same signal at 50" looked pretty dire in comparison. I messed about with the picture settings a bit, and managed to improve the picture quite a lot on SD.
I then gave some HD stuff a go (Telewest TV drive). All I can say is WOW. This set really comes into it's own with a HD signal. Some of the BBC's stuff is absolutely stunning, really incredible. It's amazingly crisp, and the colours just leap out at you, the image almost looks 3D at times it's so real. I'm hugely impressed.
I then gave the Xbox 360 a go. OMG, it's just awesome. Fight Night 3 is damn near photo-real, and Burnout 3 is just so intense and insane, I found myself ducking and diving from all the wrecked cars as I plowed through them
All in all, I'm very happy
Well what can I say? It's a stunning piece of kit, that pic doesn't do it anything like any justice. It just looks incredible, and that's even before it's switched on.
When I finally did power it up, if I'm honest I was a little underwhelmed, I went straight to an SD source and it didn't look great. Colours and contrast were amazing, but it really showed up the weaknesses of the SD signal. I was coming from a 28" Sammy CRT, and that gave a great picture on SD stuff. The same signal at 50" looked pretty dire in comparison. I messed about with the picture settings a bit, and managed to improve the picture quite a lot on SD.
I then gave some HD stuff a go (Telewest TV drive). All I can say is WOW. This set really comes into it's own with a HD signal. Some of the BBC's stuff is absolutely stunning, really incredible. It's amazingly crisp, and the colours just leap out at you, the image almost looks 3D at times it's so real. I'm hugely impressed.
I then gave the Xbox 360 a go. OMG, it's just awesome. Fight Night 3 is damn near photo-real, and Burnout 3 is just so intense and insane, I found myself ducking and diving from all the wrecked cars as I plowed through them
All in all, I'm very happy
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