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The old 360 dashboard wasn't sharp when displayed in 1080p and the new dashboard isn't any better. However when displaying games or movies, the 360 and PS3 are equally sharp all other things being equal (obviously not in games with...
Quote: This is not true, since the 236-254 region should be out of spec. It's possible that there might be discs authored outside of 16-235 luminance, but these are improperly done. Actually every single commercial DVD/Blu-Ray disc...
Quote: Originally Posted by Hughmc What you should see when your display is set to limited is 0-16 "blacks" will look identical and you are getting black crush. Now switch your display to Full and you will see the properly calibrated...
The problem you are describing goes away when you use a HDMI cable, so it is a component cable only problem. The black level problem has existed from the beginning with the 360 BC and apparently has never been addressed. For some reason...
Assuming this is a relatively modern Sony TV, what you really want to do is adjust the color decoder using the approprriate sevice menu settings rather then hoping one of the "AXIS" defaults is correct (assuming Sony even uses the "AXIS"...
Quote: Originally Posted by Ratnose86 Playing MGS3 right now and quite happy with the image with scaling and smoothing on. I can read everything on screen just fine. Maybe I will play with it some more and see what happens. Lip sync...
Quote: Originally Posted by confidenceman Otherwise, games with lots of color depth/range and simple objects look much better on PS3, especially "cartoony" games like Persona 3, Sly Cooper, Jak and Daxter. They certainly don't look...
Quote: Originally Posted by Fanboyz Actually Sperron, THX optimizer isn't supposed to calibrate each monitor for a specific film. THX optimizer, DVE as well as Monster ISF all yeild the same calibration settings. On T2 the the BD's...
Here's a link to a comparison I did almost 2 years ago: http://www.hdtvarcade.com/hdtvforum/...howtopic=11408 Basically the PS3 adds a blur filter to the PS2 games by default before it upscales, so there is no way to not get a...
Quote: Standard remaps RGB 0-255 into the 16-235 range and sends it to the TV. Thus, you are losing levels of gray (16 + 20 = 36 levels or 14%?) Furthermore, if you TV expects black to be 0 and is instead at 16 than the colors will be...
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