http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/ Engadget HD Comments for Dialing back display brightness is good for picture quality and your wallet http://hd.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://hd.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/Uncalibated, my Pure AV UPS/Surge/AVR showed the power usage (TV on only) using up 3 power usage bars.
Calibrated, It only uses one power usage bar.
But, when friends come over, I crank up the lcd back light. And you hear ohh's and arr's on how great my tv looks.
Calibrated, my sammy looks like a plasma.]]>Mar 17th 2009 1:27PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/Wouldn't you want them to just see a properly calibrated set, and perhaps educate them that torch mode is just totally unnecessary and unnatural?
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FWIW, the new Sony S series looks HORRID out of the box (literally, some of the colors are inverting from their true form!). Go from vivid to standard, sharpness at 0, and turn off all the image processing mode, and it looks pretty sweet. This is without calibration, which would make it look even better.]]>Mar 17th 2009 1:42PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/Mar 17th 2009 1:54PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/When it's calibrated it get comment like : "oh, that's a big TV" and that's it. nothing about how good or natural the picture looks.
And I have to admit, I love the praises. So calibration be damned when people are over.]]>Mar 17th 2009 1:56PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/Mar 17th 2009 5:15PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/
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I've had it for about 28 months and I'm still on the original lamp. How long do these things usually last?]]>Mar 17th 2009 2:34PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/
Use the google my friend, you'd be amazed at how much info is ripe for the picking.

I pretty much taught myself my Samsung DLP's service menu and how to calibrate just using the interwebs... but ALWAYS verify something with more than one source, and for christ's sake- take pictures of your service menu first if you're going to fux with it.]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:00PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/
I estimate it has around 9000 hours on the bulb.]]>Mar 17th 2009 3:04PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/
Here's a good article about how to maximize lamp life:
http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/2007/02/making_your_hdt.php]]>Mar 18th 2009 2:30PMhttp://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/http://hd.engadget.com/2009/03/17/dialing-back-display-brightness-is-good-for-picture-quality-and/Mar 17th 2009 5:16PM