I got my SXRD TV for my birthday last week. I am both ecstatic and disappointed.<\/p>\n
It’s a 60″ Sony HDTV using “LCOS” technology (a kind of microdisplay rear projection similar to DLP or LCD Projection). At its best, the image is astounding, jaw-dropping. The local PBS station broadcasts full HD (1080i) travel, cooking and gardening shows that I have been watching just because the picture is so amazing. It’s really almost like looking out of a window. Color, clarity, definition is just about perfect.<\/p>\n
However, it suffers from a defect common to all microdisplay rear projection TVs: something called the “silk-screen” effect. One way to describe it: it’s as if the image is being projected on a frosted glass surface (which might be near the truth). Most of the time you are not aware of this surface; you’re looking through it at the image behind. But sometimes with a light-colored moving surface such as a cloud you’re suddenly aware of the texture of the surface that is standing still as the image moves over it, and it can be distracting.<\/p>\n
I think that most people don’t notice this effect, or if they do it doesn’t bother them. I’m afraid that I’m not in this majority. I’ve decided to give it another week or two and see if I get used to it. If not, I may have to take it back.<\/p>\n
I’ve considered Plasma (too expensive, poor contrast, burn-in problems) and LCD (too small), DLP (I don’t like the picture as well as the SXRD, and they also suffer from the silk-screen effect) and Front Projection (too dim). There are other technologies coming out in the next few years (SED looks very promising), but nothing else available now or in the near future that looks any better.<\/p>\n
So here I sit, both ecstatic and disappointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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