Are these TV's Too Complicated

[RBDELI]

After spending 12 hours yesterday to get a reasonable High-Def picture on my TV, I am feeling very vulnerable. Whenever I go back into the Convergence menu (0159) on my Mits. WT46809, It wipes out my red convergence alignment and I have to redo them all over again, a very nagging and difficult process. There is probably something in the geometry set-up that I am missing to make the red so far off and so difficult to converge. My picture looks pretty darn good the way it is now, but I'm awfully tempted to tweek a few more things, but I'm afraid to have to go through the process all over again. I wish I had remembered to write down my settings before I exited last time.

I realize this type of thing should be left for the service techs to do, but my question is why? Why does it have to be so complicated to get a television to display a high-def picture? My guess is that your typical Digital TV owner isn't getting even half the quality they paid for. Our things improving on the newer TV's so they aren't so sensitive and hard to calibrate?

I am an experienced computer hardware person, but these high definition television seem unreasonably technical and complicated to me. They are far more complicated than building, upgrading or modifying personal computers.

[Ratman]

The problem lies with the internet.

There's a lot of info that generates the curiosity and incentive for the 'general consumer' and/or novice to experiment and tweak.

Generally... this can be good. But IMO, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. And sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

I do agree that we would not have 80% of these issues if the quality control/setup was performed before the TV comes into our homes.

[RBDELI]

You make a good point, Yet if it wasn't for the WEB, I would be waiting around to pay good money to a repairman.

[pikers]

The problem lies with the internet.

There's a lot of info that generates the curiosity and incentive for the 'general consumer' and/or novice to experiment and tweak.

Generally... this can be good. But IMO, a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. And sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

I do agree that we would not have 80% of these issues if the quality control/setup was performed before the TV comes into our homes.

That all depends on what you want to pay for a set. Pay an extra $500 per set, and you can get an ISF job from the factory.

Sounds like a good idea for a special order option, but not standard production runs... :hyper:

[Ratman]

No one will ever get an ISF calibration 'from the factory', no matter the cost. That's quite apparent if you read reviews in many of the popular A/V publications. They always 'tweak' to get greyscale (as one example) set properly.

Do you like resurrecting 9 month old posts? :)

[57U]

Several smaller stores will offer calibration as an option on their TVs though and they usually charge a lot less if you get it done "right away", rather than later.

These smaller outfits will even do the appropriate "burn in" on CRTs (100 hours).