On today ’s You Asked : Laser television versus a huge mini - run TV . What happens to the television set after we test them ? split up in TV speakers — is that a thing ? And why are we so obsessed with TV picture show quality ?
Laser TV or Hisense 110 UX?
Anand writes that he ’s finally building a dedicated media elbow room in a new home and was planning on live on with an extremist short throw projector — aka a laser TV — until they saw my video recording about the Hisense 110 UX . They experience the UX is overprice right now , but is willing to wait a class if the damage might drop to $ 5,000-$6,000 .
Anand , I do not think theHisense 110 UX TVis going to drop by more than 50 % in just a year . I do believe next year ’s version may descend out as less expensive , and this yr ’s version — if there are still any left field ( I distrust Hisense is n’t making a ton of those ) — may drop by as much as 50 % . But I suspect that the TV wo n’t deal for less than $ 10,000 until it is gone .
If you require a CRT screen larger than 100 column inch , then I intimate you go with your original plan of getting anultra short stroke projectorand ALR screen . That ’s believably the chic move all the way of life around . In your light - curb miniskirt - theatre , that UST projector is sound to be plenty promising enough for a thrilling experience .
Getting it all back in the box
Pat Walsh compose : I was just watching the UX unbox video and I was question : How do you guys box these thing back up to deliver them ? I think , it ’s unsufferable to put all of the wrapping back on . Does it get moved on to another referee in its more or less used body politic ? If so , do only sure reviewers rate a pristine tester ? Keep up the adept study . I love my U8 K , which your video helped me decide on .
Pat , you ’re correct : When we re - box these boob tube to go back to the manufacturer , I ca n’t put the protective film back on the TV . And sometimes the protective sheath or dish gets a lilliputian torn up because that cloth is n’t all that strong to get down with , plus the taping they use to keep it in office tends to rip . So , although we do a great task re - boxing these television set , they are intelligibly not manufactory - fresh when we send them back .
I do know that manufacturers will often insure over the tv set before sending it out to the next reviewer . However , I have been the recipient of telly that have been out to another reviewer — not every idiot box I get is factory - fresh , though most of them are — and , yes , you do n’t get the protective cinema on those .
Most manufacturers are in effect about resetting the television set , which is great because I am so tough at resetting them before I pack them up for return . But sometimes a brand so urgently wants to get the TV to another referee that it go out my place spring for the next soul . So they get to see me log into their television receiver . My apology to fellow reviewers . Although , to be sightly , sometimes they play pranks on me by watching crazy contentedness to mess up my recommended feeds . Guess I merit that .
What bump to these telecasting after they have been reviewed ? That depends on the stain and that ship’s company ’s policy . I ’d like to think the TVs land in the hand of someone who can appreciate and delight them . But I also know of at least one brand name that sticks them in a warehouse . They just model there doing nothing before eventually getting “ recycled , ” which is a shame and a dissipation of a keen TV .
And some TVs get damage enough during embark that a brand would n’t want to put it out into the public , which I understand .
Best way to break in speakers?
Steve writes : Just finished watching theunboxing video of the Hisense 110 UXand you mentioned “ break in the loudspeaker system . ” While I ’m not expect anything awesome from my Bravia without at least a soundbar , I ’m now funny what tone I can take to get the most out of what I ’ve got . Do you have a especial routine that you carry out every time on new goggle box , or does it vary depending on the make and model ? Keep up the gravid study !
Thanks for the head , Steve , and it ’s interesting you peck up on that . The notion of speaker time out - in is the matter of some debate . Some believe that it provide no audible modification to a speaker ’s performance , but it has been scientifically proven that a speaker driver ’s operation exchange a fiddling after several hours of use .
television receiver verbaliser break - in might even seem laughable to some because if there is a inquiry about whether high - end tower speakers appreciably change after happy chance - in , then the idea that a tiny TV speaker system might sound different after break - in is dubious for sure .
I ’ll differentiate you this : The more elaborate the speaker system in a TV , the more inclined I am to give it a go - in period . The primary reason is that I do n’t want to leave any questions as to whether the performance I find is suggestive of the operation a drug user might get after their tv set has been used for a while .
There are speaker rupture - in video recording on YouTube that are basically glorified pink noise , where all frequencies are being grow . Run that for several hours and your video utterer are probable to get as pause in as they are going to get . I would not expect a dramatic shift in performance , though .
As a parting intellection , I ’ll just thrust it out there that some folks believe demote in the listener is more authoritative than breaking in the speaker .
Perfect TV quality: Why are we obsessed?
Rick Hall writes : Why are we haunt with perfect TV quality ? When I go to the movies I do n’t see inky-black lightlessness , nor do I see awesome spectacular highlight like the YouTube demos . I see an surprisingly huge picture coalesce with awesome sound calibre , supply an A+ experience !
I hump this doubt . It ’s one of those things that make you gohmmmm . It ’s one of those questions that almost seems obvious once you ’ve pick up it out tacky . However , very few people have thought about this .
I ’ll answer your question with what is essentially just my belief . In several of my super - large - screen television receiver reviews where the television was not top - of - the - line ( it was a more low-cost model that happened to be extremely immense ) I ’ve point out that a lot of ethnic music are very glad with very salutary picture quality at a immense size and would take that nine times out of 10 , versus excellent picture timbre at a smaller size .
There is something really awesome about the massive scale of a commercial movie theater screen and the phone — again , perhaps not as high fidelity as some place systems . It ’s just bounteous and louder and more heroic due to the scale of the system .
I think there ’s a peck of psychology at play here . We want to get the good experience possible , so alternatively of getting a monolithic 200 - inch or larger screen we go for the best picture quality available . Also , we own our TVs for a foresightful time and we look at them almost every day . It ’s a lot easy to hone in on a boob tube ’s weaknesses than to get enfold up in what a projector is or is not doing in a theater , specially when we ’re in and out in just a distich minute — unless it ’s a Martin Scorsese moving picture , of course .
Finally , because we can get such great picture timbre — that there are stage of awesomeness for us to purchase — it gets us conceive about the income tax return on investment funds we want .
I also retrieve that just the olfaction of the Zea mays everta and the excitement of an entertainment destination makes us a little forgiving .
So , add all that up and I think that help explain why we ’re so possessed with getting the in effect telly picture quality we can . And I ’ll add up that I am super excited that that ’s how some humans are , because it keeps me in a job that I love very , very much . Thank you hombre — no really , I mean it .
