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calibos /forum/post/18193150
Fixed that for you
As for taking them seriously. I couldn't take them seriously even in the 960x540 res Ae300 days. I could not see pixel structure until I got within about 3 or 4 feet of a 80x45 16:9 image with my old AE300. To think there were still smoothscreen haters even after the advent of the 1920x1080 panny PJ's with pixels one quarter the size of the Ae300's staggered me.
I think one or two people who had some respect in the AV community didn't like it, others took their word as gospel and it became a Meme..."Smoothscreen makes the image soft and less detailed!!" Repeated ad infinitum by people who had never seen smoothscreen in action in person themselves, which ended up scaring countless PJ buyers away from panny projectors.
It annoys me that the 'smoothscreen softens the image' brigade were actually going against the core aims of projector ownership. ie. to replicate the cinema experience. Smoothscreen didn't soften the image it just made it more filmlike. It only looked less sharp against the competition because of the artificial sharpness of other displays caused by their pixel structure. In effect it was like these other PJ's had hardware edge enhancement that couldn't be turned off
Hey, maybe they prefered that look and thats OK but don't tell us that your image is more cinema like or that our panny PJ's have less detail because they are softer and more filmlike cause it simply isn't true.
