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Originally Posted by HTguru3 
I know you have said this several times on this forum, but being an owner of the exact same model of yours, I can attest that the colors do fade when viewing from the side and not just a slight degradation. Enough to wear it's obvious. Fortunately in my situation it's in a small family room with viewing pretty much straight on and used mainly by my wife (who likely wouldn't see the issue anyway as she thought our old JVC CRT had a great picture (it wasn't HD and awful). It's not just mentioned by people in this forum but almost every test done by reputable sources constantly point out viewing angle as an issue with an LCD panel. Why would they do that if it isn't an issue? |
I know that it used to be a major issue. When I worked at Best Buy and LCD's first started to be used as monitors and TV's, they had some of the most gawd awful viewing angles I've ever seen. Even worse than the old front projection tv's from back in the day (and those had such awful viewing angles, I won't touch any kind of projection tv to this day) But when I started seriously shopping for TV's back in 2007, I found that LCD's had improved a thousandfold in this department. I looked at all the LCD's in the store and thought "oh, they've fixed it" and I haven't looked back since. Sure, I saw a few low budget models (Westinghouse, Dynex etc) that still had crappy viewing angles, but they were models I would never consider purchasing anyway. Starting around 2008, I don't recall seeing
any LCD's with (what I would consider) poor viewing angles. Thats why it puzzles me as to why people still say they still have them. I think a more appropriate statement would be that they have "poorer viewing angles than plasma or CRT".
I understand that very nearly the whole of the videophile community thinks that LCD's have poor viewing angles, and this is backed up by testing and various measuring devices. But regardless of all the testing and data, I simply cannot see this viewing angle issue, and on the rare occasions I do see it, it is so slight as to be a non-issue. This is coming from a guy who as a kid, got stuck watching
Raiders of the Lost Ark for the first time on a Front Projection CRT from a
very bad angle, bad enough to where I couldn't really tell what was going on and on the spot, decided never to own a TV that had poor viewing angles like that one...and here I am 30 years later with an LCD in my home. I still refuse to own any kind of projection tv because of that (and other) experience.
I liken this to the whole "Motion blur issue". C-Net did testing on a bunch of TV's and determined which TV's resolved the most number of lines during scenes with high amounts of motion. The data they acquired showed some pretty drastic differences between varying display types and models, but when they sat back and watched the various displays with the naked eye, they couldn't really tell the difference between them. They could discern no noticeable blurring in the scenes. The data said the differences should have been obvious, but they weren't. Viewing angle issues with LCD's are like that for me. Despite what all the experts and hobbyists say, I just don't see the problem with my own eyes, and for me that's the experience that counts in the end.