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Has anybody spent any critical time with one of the 1024x1024 native plasma panels built by Hitachi and sold in Akai cases? They are only $1000 and "claim" to display both 1080 and 720 source well because they are 1024x1024 native.

Sounds fishy to me.

Richard, seen one yet?

- Grumpy

Grumpy! Waz up?



Don't do it... you will never get 1X1 pixel mapping... it will always have scaling artifacts... this is for casual viewing applications only. BTW, get the Hitachi version so you get quality service and support in case there are problems...

If ya wanna go plasma get a native pixel depth that matches 720P or 1080P. Panasonic commercial is highly regarded for ISF and plasma but bear in mind plasma has problems with imaging science in general.

How did you get from big screen front projection to plasma?

Richard, sorry if this seems to be a dumb question, but you often use the term artifacts.

Pray tell what are artifacts & do I need to duck if one or more appears on my HDTV.

Thanks in advance for the education.

Richard,

It's not for me - my brother's wife was interested in one mostly because the price is so low. We all agreed that something is probably amiss, and since my brother is closer to videophile than tv watcher, he decided against it. I've about got him convinced to keep the plain old 32" for daily duty and get a mid range front projector for the good stuff. He has a pit bull and two 150 pound American Johnson Bulldogs, both in competition for bite titles, and I reminded him that wagging tails can't reach a ceiling mount or tear a painted wall.

For me, I'm still enjoying the 120" screen. As a matter of fact, I'm using it right now. I have my PC attached to it and got a blue tooth keyboard and mouse, so I surf the forums during commercials. It's actually surprisingly nice to have the internet and Google Earth up and running while watching TV. For example, I was watching CSI with my ten year old and during the commercials I was able to show her Las Vegas on G.E. and found the location that the story was taking place. Not exactly life changing or anything, but if you're an information junkie like we are, it's a ton of fun.


Canjack54,

I'm not Richard, but in imaging I consider an "artifact" to be anything that is added to the original image, either intentionally or as a side effect, by the equipment in use. In other words, it's anything you see that is not part of the original image as intended by the film or TV Director, and therefore shouldn't be there. It can be old fashioned static or ghosting from your Grandpa's TV's rabbit ear antennas, or a warped line, or color bleeding, or extra crud added with the intention of making the image appear sharper or more vivid. Some of them come from the TV, the sat/cable box or company. Some of them come from the bradcasting company, or the DVD manufacturer, and some of them even come right from the cameras used to capture the image. In 99.9999% of the cases, they are a bad thing and once you realize them, you will forever seek to reduce or eliminate them.

More or less anyway...

Grumpy

PS. Richard, I need to call you. Are you still at the same #?

An artifiact is also something that has been removed from the original...

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