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    yeah, I did look into the W - but if im honest from what i've seen set up in stores I definately prefer the X and also - (surprising maybe) I prefer the styling of the X

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      ah well, I just wanted to see if you people think ive made the right choice in shunning the Sharp XD1 an going Sony X...?
      Pains me to say it given recent events, but yeah.

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        The X with a black bezel is very nice (a chap form Sony on AV Forums said they were going to make the X black as standard but never specified when). I don't care for it in silver.

        The times I have seen the W it's looked noisier with the same HD feed as an S series model beside it oddly enough, which is why I'd be curious to see the W properly set up. The X does impress me though, I'd just want it in 46" form and frankly ?2600 is more than I consider LCD technology to be worth.

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          Originally posted by krispyk
          Having had my Sony 32inch 2010 now for a couple of weeks I have been slightly miffed with the lack of tweakability on the VGA input in custom mode. How can I enter the service mode? Will it let me access all the Picture settings for custom, vivid and standard?
          I have resorted to component for the 360 but need to free up a space on my switcher for my Wii when it arrives.
          I got it all sorted last night

          What you need to do is this...


          1. Put the freeview on and watch something.

          2. Go to the picture settings and choose one of the godawful colour temperature settings that you will never use. (I chose Warm 1)

          put the TV to standby then access the service menu by pressing

          I+, 5, Vol +, Power (i+ is the button just below the blue button)

          press up or down until you see a screen that looks like this


          Write down all these values just incase you want to revert it back one day.

          Basically I cranked the top 3 options (_DRIVE) as high as they would go (511)
          and turned the bottom 3 settings (_BKG) to 400.

          Choose colour Save then Ok.

          Return to You freeview and change that back to Neutral.

          Try your 360/VGA and change the colour settings of viewing only to Warm1.
          You might have to tweak the Brightness a little butt he image you now be alot more colourful and noway near as grey.
          Last edited by EvilBoris; 04-11-2006, 18:05.

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            Originally posted by Lyris
            Pains me to say it given recent events, but yeah.
            yup have to agree, but the recent comments on AV have swayed me...

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              I+, 5, Vol +, Power (i+ is the button just below the blue button)

              press up or down until you see a screen that looks like this


              Write down all these values just incase you want to revert it back one day.
              You are stealing my review's bandwidth matey, picture doesn't work

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                Originally posted by Kotatsu Neko
                And fans on an LCD? Why? I know plasmas used to have them years back.. but I thought we'd moved way past that now.
                As had I - I've not seen anything mentioning it, and if I had known it had fans, I wouldn't have bought it.

                Originally posted by Kotatsu Neko
                I'm really happy with my 42" Tosh. Looks superb with most things as long as you're sat right in front of it (off angle viewing is pretty awful). BBC HD looks amazing in 1080i, as does the 360 through component at 720p. My only real niggle are the black levels, but it's an LCD so I guess that's just par for the course. Can't wait to see HD-DVDs on it.
                I have been thinking about the new WLT68, seems quite good on paper; 100/120Hz, Faroudja DCDi, Pixel PROcessing IV etc, and they're usually quite cheap.

                As for black levels, I measured things last night, and this Sharp is as good as the Panasonic Plasma I had, and if you don't mind a duller image, can go even darker. Just a shame that the gamma is so low, because the image is a lot "flatter" despite this.

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                  I assume the Sony Bravia, being a somewhat decent screen, actually downscales 1080i to the screens native res (1366x768),as opposed to 540p right? Asking cause it might be the optimal way to use that HD-DVD Player.

                  On that note, some 360 games do support 1080i native, but it's rarely mentioned.
                  The back of some game boxes say 'HDTV 720p', whereas some say 'HDTV 480p/720p/1080i'... does that mean the game supports those resolutions natively?

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                    Originally posted by Shakey_Jake33
                    I assume the Sony Bravia, being a somewhat decent screen, actually downscales 1080i to the screens native res (1366x768),as opposed to 540p right? Asking cause it might be the optimal way to use that HD-DVD Player.

                    On that note, some 360 games do support 1080i native, but it's rarely mentioned.
                    The back of some game boxes say 'HDTV 720p', whereas some say 'HDTV 480p/720p/1080i'... does that mean the game supports those resolutions natively?
                    I think they just stopped listing all three as every game does them all be default

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                      I was told some games did 1080i native though (which work in 1080p cause the framebuffer is '1080'., no such thing as a 1080i framebuffer.

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                        I can't see any developers having code optimised enough to handle it on so early the in the console's life.

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                          Originally posted by Shakey_Jake33
                          I was told some games did 1080i native though (which work in 1080p cause the framebuffer is '1080'., no such thing as a 1080i framebuffer.
                          Plenty of PS2 games use a 480i frame buffer, hence the jaggies.

                          I wasn't aware any 360 games were actually at 1920x1080 res, I thought it was just upscaled?

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                            Originally posted by andrewfee
                            I have been thinking about the new WLT68, seems quite good on paper; 100/120Hz, Faroudja DCDi, Pixel PROcessing IV etc, and they're usually quite cheap.
                            The new Tosh models do sound very good. 3 HDMI inputs and amazing contrast ratios, so they say.

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                              Originally posted by andrewfee
                              I have been thinking about the new WLT68, seems quite good on paper; 100/120Hz, Faroudja DCDi, Pixel PROcessing IV etc, and they're usually quite cheap.
                              That is what I picked up yesterday. Shame about the ****ty viewing angle.

                              I couldn't fault the picture when looking at it dead on square though, not that I know a great deal about it.

                              Supports 1080p inputs also

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                                Originally posted by Kotatsu Neko
                                Plenty of PS2 games use a 480i frame buffer, hence the jaggies.

                                I wasn't aware any 360 games were actually at 1920x1080 res, I thought it was just upscaled?
                                Read it on some MS technical blokes blog, so I dunno.
                                I did assume jaggies were just caused by the low resolution, and interlacing is more about how the signal is encoded and sent.

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