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....Why You Let Your Television Displays Look So AWFUL!
Please, can someone just give me a little insight into the thinking here?
What is one of the most consistent gripes we all have about trying to judge a TV monitor's performance in the store? It is, of course, that the
monitors are so often poorly displayed.
It doesn't seem to matter if I'm wandering through a super-store with a hundred tvs, or a high-end store with only five TVs on display. Most of the time the television images look like crap (relative to what they are capable of).
Now I can understand, to a degree, the problem with a super store, who choose to split a feed to a giant wall of TVs. That's just killing the TV's chances right at the feed...but I suppose it must be done sometimes.
What kills me is how often the screens look like crap simply because no one has taken two minutes to fiddle with the picture controls. The color is blooming, the contrast and brightness is off - the picture looks like a mess.
And yet, typically there are salesmen leaning on a counter somewhere, looking bored...as if they have something better to do than help the TVs they are TRYING TO SELL at least look good to the customer.
I just don't get it. If I owned an A/V store, the first bloody thing I'd do every time I fired the TVs up in the morning is to make sure the picture looks OK. And if it doesn't, I'd do something about it. I'd check again later, after any customers (or salesmen) fiddled with the picture controls.
This makes sense doesn't it? These guys are trying to sell TVs, aren't they?
Please, someone, stop my pain and give me an explanation of this strange, self-defeating behavior.
Rich H.
Please, can someone just give me a little insight into the thinking here?
What is one of the most consistent gripes we all have about trying to judge a TV monitor's performance in the store? It is, of course, that the
monitors are so often poorly displayed.
It doesn't seem to matter if I'm wandering through a super-store with a hundred tvs, or a high-end store with only five TVs on display. Most of the time the television images look like crap (relative to what they are capable of).
Now I can understand, to a degree, the problem with a super store, who choose to split a feed to a giant wall of TVs. That's just killing the TV's chances right at the feed...but I suppose it must be done sometimes.
What kills me is how often the screens look like crap simply because no one has taken two minutes to fiddle with the picture controls. The color is blooming, the contrast and brightness is off - the picture looks like a mess.
And yet, typically there are salesmen leaning on a counter somewhere, looking bored...as if they have something better to do than help the TVs they are TRYING TO SELL at least look good to the customer.
I just don't get it. If I owned an A/V store, the first bloody thing I'd do every time I fired the TVs up in the morning is to make sure the picture looks OK. And if it doesn't, I'd do something about it. I'd check again later, after any customers (or salesmen) fiddled with the picture controls.
This makes sense doesn't it? These guys are trying to sell TVs, aren't they?
Please, someone, stop my pain and give me an explanation of this strange, self-defeating behavior.
Rich H.
