Holy Grail of Must-Have LCD Features

That's pretty close to mine but what's more important is for LCD to tackle quality issues like banding, mura (clouds), smearing, and ghosting before they start adding any more "features".

For LED units, I'd rather have backlight scanning than 120Hz.

It's not even LED specific, you could scan horizontal rows of fluorescents too, although if not sure how practical that would be. Scanning is where you turn the backlights off for the split second when you change what the panel is showing. The reason being that the big part of image lag happens in the eyes and brain, not just the panel.

The only LCD with such a feature currently is the Samsung 81F.

Could be another term for "local dimming" technology which is used with the LED backlighting?

Uhh, Sony & Samsung are the ones who were selling the TVs with the flawed S-LCD panels, where they apparently couldn't get the manufacturing process right... so they just sold them to the customers anyway. You call that err, "first-class"?

Different thing, although larger number of dimming clusters will make backlight scanning more natural.


I guess it just means that average consumers prefer the better black levels of S-LCD panels at the expenense of mura and backlight non-uniformity. I doubt the folks at Samsung are losing sleep either way.

I don’t know jack LOL about LCD screens I have a friend who has one and it just looks dreadful for TV viewing and DVD. He says he got for the gaming side he also said it was made for HD be it HD-DVD or Bluray or other.

I personally think that’s bit of reduction not being able to cater for DVD without motion blurring or lagging due to the time refresh rate it takes, is it the blacks or whites? Anyway lagging stands out like sore thumb. He brought his 42” Samsung last year for just over £1000.00 pounds that’s a lot of dosh if you ask me.

So have they perfected the lagging issue and does this one give blacker blacks?

Thanks because I can pass the information onto him.