It's been just more than a week that I got my HLR4677 TV and I am enjoying it.
The Hollywood movies are awesome on a upconverted DVD player(Samsung 850) set in 720p or 1080i mode with HDMI(Monister cable). Even without an upconverted player, my old sony 480i dvd player with s-video seems to show better picture. So I wonder how far the fancy upconverter are helping this tv and if its really worth to spend the extra 300.
One thing I am disappointed with the SD tv (dish network) is that we need
to see it in 4:3 mode instead of 16:9 to get a better look at people (16:9 mode makes them look shrter and fat). So when i set it, to 4:3 the PQ is better but when comparing the PQ, colors and face details with my sony TV
(connected to A/v frm the dish settop box) and watching the same scene
simultaneusly on both samsung DLP set and the sony Tv, I felt the CRT
picture quality, colors, face details, the low light details on faces, objects are
far superior to the DLP's PQ.
When comparing HLR4677 with my 6 yrs old Sony Trinitron 32" Tv, I felt
the SD picture quality with upconverted DVD player on HLR), colors, contrast(whites and blacks) ], shadows details are much much better (I think i see that plasma and lcd with 1080
resulution have this kind of similar good PQ like normal CRT displays)
and I am really hesitating whether the DLPs can ever come to that
stage of showing the whites whiter(and not little grey) and the blacks and
shadows and details much better. I am not able to compromise on my
HLR4667. When I compare both side by side, I see that no matter what adjustments I make (i have used both DVE and Avia), i cannot get the finer details on faces, the light brightness on the objects and faces on the HLR,
but my Sony 32" Tv rocks in showing this details properly.
I have'nt tried the HDTV source yet. I hope the new HLR4667 (which is
supposed to have 2500 contrast ratio cmpared to 2000 CR n HLR4677) would
show better picture quality and finer and deeper blacks and deeper details on
dark scenes. I am ready to exchange my set to 4667 soon, hopefully,
the stores(CC, BB, GG) will carry them by next week.
I am waiting for the new owners of HLR4667/HLR5067 sets to comment on
the PQ, whether the new 67 series is giving deeper blacks, whites, details
on faces, objects, finer details on darker scenes etc of HLR4667 HD4 DLP
chip based TVs. This limitation of DLPs
is what making me to think wait for until the next eay when sets with even better PQ and cntrast ratio (>5000) might come or I might have to live with
the bad PQ on SDs and some DVDs on this HLR 67/77 series.
Is the PQ on HD4 based TV now better than HD3?
How is it compared to HD2+ chip based Tv's?