As I'm sure you're aware, the XBR960 is considered to be one of the best large consumer-grade CRTs ever made.
One aspect of performance that no review ever seems to consider is the brightness limiter circuitry.
This is something that really only CRTs and Plasmas have, and from my experience so far, the ABL is much more aggressive on Plasmas compared to CRTs, resulting in them having a dimmer image when calibrated, but I don't have any hard data on the "king" of CRTs, unlike the "king" of Plasmas, the Pioneer Kuro.
Is there anyone here that owns one of the displays and could measure it?
The test patterns required are available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?dw8or3l0gda2qth
All you need to do, is set the display to 100 nits (cd/m2) or 30fL when displaying the 001 pattern, and then take the luminance readings, Y, of each pattern up to 100. You don't need to plot the data in a graph, I just need the raw numbers.
An ideal display would stay at 100 nits regardless of pattern size, but CRTs and Plasmas do not. I think it would be interesting to see how the XBR960 compares to the KRP-500M though. (I suspect that it will do better)
One aspect of performance that no review ever seems to consider is the brightness limiter circuitry.
This is something that really only CRTs and Plasmas have, and from my experience so far, the ABL is much more aggressive on Plasmas compared to CRTs, resulting in them having a dimmer image when calibrated, but I don't have any hard data on the "king" of CRTs, unlike the "king" of Plasmas, the Pioneer Kuro.
Is there anyone here that owns one of the displays and could measure it?
The test patterns required are available here: http://www.mediafire.com/?dw8or3l0gda2qth
All you need to do, is set the display to 100 nits (cd/m2) or 30fL when displaying the 001 pattern, and then take the luminance readings, Y, of each pattern up to 100. You don't need to plot the data in a graph, I just need the raw numbers.
An ideal display would stay at 100 nits regardless of pattern size, but CRTs and Plasmas do not. I think it would be interesting to see how the XBR960 compares to the KRP-500M though. (I suspect that it will do better)
