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Originally Posted by McG
i disagree with the advice to go to a store and look at which one looks best and buy it. the reason is because many stores just set the things up without adjustment; this means that you are relying upon the manufacturer's settings (usually vivid or bright) and from all that i have read no one should be watching their tv at home on these settings. therefore, whatever setting that you see won't be the one that you use and therefore seeing it in the store and buying it makes no sense to me.
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The thing is 90% of people out there won't go to avsforum as you and i will, and change the settings. They will keep using the manufactured settings, and be more than satisfied even if they keep it on the super crazy contrast mode that stores have things set at. Even if you tune around with settings for hours, calibrate them to real colors, sometimes you can only really tell the different if you do side by side comparisons. I used to go to avsforum.com to adjust them all the time, and after a while, I forgot and stopped doing. And surprise! my tv experience is still just as good!
I'm not against research, I do a ton of it myself. But after a while it can get in the way of you enjoying whatever you buy. You spend so much time on silly little details that in the end won't matter as much as you really think. None of the big players (Sony, Samsung, Toshiba, etc) really make BAD tv's....so I don't think there is a bad decision out there amongst them. As long as he knows the basics, he should be fine.