A slew of questions for the well educated!!

[Petra_Kalbrain]

Originally Posted by backtothecanvas

I have been typing questions in single posts but have decided to bunch them together in hopes that a well educated home theatre individual can help me, or a multitude of them. So here they are and i greatly appreciate anyones help that gets involved!!!

Setup:
Sony KDL 52W3000 HDMI connected.
Sony 40G PS3 HDMI connected.
Samsung HTX 72 HTIB (i know i know). HDMI connected.
Scientific Atlantic HD-DVR HDMI connected.

1. I am noticing when i move far left and right of the TV it seems to get washed out and dull looking. Then when dead center picture looks rich and dark.. I thought this odd because my previous Sony KDL 46v2500 did not do this at all. Any ideas why?

2. I set my power saving to "low" like suggested in a calibration for this tv and noticed the overall picture is darker and blacks are richer. But i had this thought, everytime a movie ends and it goes total black screen except the white text credits the picture darkens significantly. Now is this due to power saving adjusting the black levels? i can imagine it manually adjusting during a movie that has a dark scene making the picture altered since it does during credit rolling as well. Plenty of movie scenes get that dark, this seems like a bad thing or abnormal at the least.

3. I was wondering exactly what the "color space" setting does? My eye notices that it enhances reds and darkens and "spreads" the background areas of the picture when on "wide" instead of standard.

4. Apparently my tv is now 1080/24p as opposed to my previous 1080/p. What exactly does this mean? Is it also true that if i went to the most current hdmi cable (version 1.3 or something) that i get a cleaner signal? Or is this whole hdmi cables vary just a myth?

5. I seem to not be able to get rid of "everyone has a sunburn" on my picture. i have adjusted reds, hue, etc and i either wind up turning everyone green or making the picture too pale. Any ideas?

6. Is there any way to convince my wife that its necessary that we have to buy at least 5 blu rays a week?


Thank you for all your help, it is immensely appreciated and i look forward to some real guidance!!!

Here's what I can offer as I have the same TV,

#1. It should not be doing that. I can be standing directly beside my TV and the quality of my view is only hampered by the fact that the widescreen image is maybe an inch in width from that vantage point. I'd seriously consider bringing it back because something is not right. That TV is suppose to have something like a 170-178 degree viewing range.

#2. This seems to be unavoidable. Although, turning "Light Sensor" off under the TV "General" menu helps quite a bit.

#3. This setting is fairly useless at the moment as far as I know. I have left my "Colour Space" settings on Normal and I am very happy.

#4. Is there really going to be a noticeable difference? Honestly?

#5. This sounds like either a contrast, tint, or colour issue. If it can't be fixed by the calibration settings then, in conjunction with #1, it may have something to do with the mechanics of the TV itself. Something may have shifted in its transportation.

#6. Hypnosis... have the one administering the hypnotic state program her to want to buy a Blu-ray everytime she hears a certain uncommon word. Whenever you want to buy a Blu-ray just slip that activation word into your sentence and... voila! She'll be making suggestions as to which Blu-ray you should buy.