My Panosonic Plasma has settings Zoom, Hi-full, full, Justify and 4.3.
Changing to Justify resolves the problem you are experiencing, at
least on my set.
John
On 4/8/08, Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Its hooked up via hdmi. No, not zoomed in. I have both regular
history, and HD
Correct. We loath Sam Walton and all his company
represents after they came into our small town in
Wisconsin some years back and totally destroyed a
vibrant, active and productive downtown full of
locally owned businesses.
Some good friends who owned a local pharmacy and were
about five years
LWB250 wrote:
Correct. We loath Sam Walton and all his company represents
I think Sam's business model was OK. Successful enough to be a
disruptive influence, but not evil. What has been done with the
company since he relinquished leadership is something else. I go there
once or twice a
The sad part about all of this is that we had a really
active downtown business district with things like
shoe stores, a men's store, a grocery, etc., that were
all locally owned. If I forgot my checkbook (this was
before the days of debit cards) it was no big deal -
Pay me next week when you
Mitch Haley wrote:
I think Sam's business model was OK. Successful enough to be a
disruptive influence, but not evil. What has been done with the
company since he relinquished leadership is something else.
So what has changed since he relinquished control?
(FIBs are F---ing Illinois bastards, for those not
familiar with southeastern Wisconsin terms.)
FIB is also a Northwest Indiana term. Perhaps Southeastern Michigan too.
Rick Knoble
'85 300 CD
'87 190 DT
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Thanks for all the feedback, folks. Looks like
Samsung is probably the one, which I had also figured
out based on reviews I'm seeing.
We're on cable here, but I have no idea what we'll end
up with in Indiana. Probably cable as well, but
that's going to be determined by where the house is.
Samsung . very good value for money. My 40 gives satisfying results.
mak
- Original Message -
From: Kaleb C. Striplin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - LCD TVs
I just bought a 65 toshiba
Speaking of HDTV's, I have been noticing lately that I have some of the
pic cut off on some channels. For instance, the History channel. I
notice it because the H will be half or more cut off on the side, and
some of the text will be cut off and you cant see. Same with some of
the over air
The newer screens have dynamic contrast, its just a hack but is quite
noticeable. LCD's are alot more competitive with plasma these days. I
would say plasma will be all by phased out sooner than later due to
production costs vs that of LCD. Still no true black for LCD but pretty
darn close.
Are you on DVI/HDMI or component? Sure its not zoomed in? History comes
in HD now you know, even though most of the content is still 4:3.
-Rolf
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Speaking of HDTV's, I have been noticing lately that I have some of the
pic cut off on some channels. For instance, the
I looked at a couple of Samsungs at Dead Sam's today
while I was passing through. One of them (I think it
was a 40) said it had 5000:1, but other than that I
didn't noticed any of the other specs.
I didn't realize that LCDs had gotten up to those
sorts of ratios - I thought that was one of the
Its hooked up via hdmi. No, not zoomed in. I have both regular
history, and HD history and of course the regular comes in with the
black bars on the side, since its more a square pic. The HD fills up
the screen but just seems zoomed in or something like you say, except
its not zoomed. I
I do know that they had some funky setup 4:3 on 16:9. I will check
tonight as well, who is your provider? I have Dish.
-Rolf
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
Its hooked up via hdmi. No, not zoomed in. I have both regular
history, and HD history and of course the regular comes in with the
black
dish, and on their box, it has option to set what type of TV, such as
1080i, 720 etc. Also you can pic 16x9, 4x3 etc. All of which is set
correct.
Rolf wrote:
I do know that they had some funky setup 4:3 on 16:9. I will check
tonight as well, who is your provider? I have Dish.
-Rolf
I honestly think its the history channel as I remember pic being skewed
as well. I dont have OTA channels, locals all come in via dish. Pisses
me off that I cant get PBS in hidef. Nova OTA with no compression
artifacting was like heaven.
Kaleb C. Striplin wrote:
dish, and on their box, it has
A lot of the History HD stuff is not HD, and they zoom or stretch the
std def stuff (even if it is widescreen on std def) to fit the HD
16:9, so sometimes things are a bit weird.
--R
Rolf wrote:
I honestly think its the history channel as I remember pic being skewed
as well. I dont have OTA
OK - WTF is Dead Sams?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Rich Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of the History HD stuff is not HD, and they zoom or stretch the
std def stuff (even if it is widescreen on std def) to fit the HD
16:9, so sometimes things are a bit weird.
--R
Rolf wrote:
Well I figured it out. The dish remote has this format button on it.
Guess it got pushed to zoom mode or something. Set it back to normal
and its just like it should be. But yes, you are right, about half the
stuff is not really HD
Rich Thomas wrote:
A lot of the History HD stuff is not
, April 08, 2008 6:48 PM
To: Mercedes Discussion List
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - LCD TVs
OK - WTF is Dead Sams?
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Rich Thomas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A lot of the History HD stuff is not HD, and they zoom or stretch the
std def stuff (even if it is widescreen on std
I didn't realize that LCDs had gotten up to those [5000:1]
sorts of ratios - I thought that was one of the things
that plasma screens had over LCDs.
That's a fake number anyway. The LCD's get those big range
numbers by dimming the backlight. Take a 2500:1 panel (?)
and put a half-brightness
Well the Vizio I first got, that crapped out in a week, was no
comparison to the Samsung -- even my wife commented on how much better
the Samsung was.
In doing comparisons, make sure the brightness is down about half, and
contrast about half, and colors are about half, then do a comparison.
The actual contrast is about 1/3 of the digitally enhanced amount. I learned
this when reading reviews and researching my Samsung LCD monitor that is a
3000:1.
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Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case
'85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi) BioBeast
'82 300CD (176 kmi)
Call Dish tech support and tell them what is up. It's they're
responsibility to
fix it.
--
Luther KB5QHUAlma, Ark
'87 300SDL (272,xxx mi) head case
'85 Ford F250 6.9 diesel (x58,xxx mi) BioBeast
'82 300CD (176 kmi)
'82 300D (74 kmi) getting donor engine-sold
'85 300D (280,176) parts
Our aging 25 Magnavox (Philips) CRT TV passed on the
other day (lost it's horizontal hold, I'm sorry to
say.) Just what I need with having to get a house
ready to go on the market...
Anyway, I'm looking at 30-32 LCD TVs these days.
Anyone bought one recently, and want to share what
they
Make sure you get a Dynamic Contrast Ratio capable screen, the contrast
ratios will be in the 1:5000+ range. Don't forget that LCD is measured
on the bottom where CRT is diagonal. That 30 is going to be about the
same or smaller even than the 25 CRT. You will also want to make sure
it is an 8 bit
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't forget that LCD is measured
on the bottom where CRT is diagonal.
Not true, it's just that most LCDs are 16:9 format, and 16:9 screens
have less area for the same diagonal compared to 4:3 screens---about
10% less, so they
Well yes, but horizontal vs diagonal is going to make all the
difference. There is no point in getting a 4:3 tv these days, not in 2
more years. If you do over the air make sure it has an ATSC tuner (most
but not all do).
-Rolf
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Rolf [EMAIL
My dad bought a sony bravia xbr3 LCD tv from Costco and has been deliriously
happy with it. There's a push to buy 1080p (and not just 720p) because in
the future broadcasters will broadcast in 1080p; I'm not buying it because
by that time, I'll need a new tv anyway.
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 4:57
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no point in getting a 4:3 tv these days,
People who have a large amount of otherwise-unavailable material
archived in 4:3 format might disagree with you! A small subset of the
public, true, but one that is going to be
Those people will have to deal with black bars either way then won't
they? Might as well be forward looking :).
-Rolf
Alex Chamberlain wrote:
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Rolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no point in getting a 4:3 tv these days,
People who have a large
Samsung, best value for price/performance. LCD, 1080P, contrast ratio
10,000 or better, look for at least 2 HDMI inputs (what all vid stuff is
moving to) and a tuner (which I think they all have now).. I got a 32
Vizio a few months back, the software/hardware locked up on some
channels,
I just bought a 65 toshiba DLP, but thats a little bigger than you are
looking for I suppose.
LWB250 wrote:
Our aging 25 Magnavox (Philips) CRT TV passed on the
other day (lost it's horizontal hold, I'm sorry to
say.) Just what I need with having to get a house
ready to go on the market...
.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 14:23:31 -0700
From: Alex Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT - LCD TVs
To: Mercedes Discussion List mercedes@okiebenz.com
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to Burbank...
Meanwhile the price keeps slowly slipping downward.
-Curt
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:51:55 -0500
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