It arrived.
My Samsung 37″ R88.
So I set it up and plugged in Sky and the Xbox and the DVD player (no HD or PC yet).
From the moment I turned it on my wife was ooooh and arrr thats fantastic. It’s so clear and crisp (this was just SD). It’s a bit blurry I thought, this isn’t anywhere near as good as I hoped.
So I thought I’d better try some HD content. Step in “Pirates 2” clip on downloaded on the xbox 360.
“Oh my god, that’s utterly amazing, we need a HD-DVD player now” says the wife (I love having a geeky wife).
“It still looks a bit blurry to me the edges on the text are not well defined”. I say.
“Put your bloody glasses on then you dick” says the wife (never was subtle).
Whoops.
It’s as amazing as she said. Its better than I could have expected. I have been watching an old Toshiba 40″ rear projector. Blacks and greys all run into each other, in fact unless your watching at night there is no such thing as a black on this old TV. You could not watch this TV in bright sunlight without drawing the curtains.
The Samsung R88 with its 8000:1 dynamic contrast ratio really does have black. It has more settings than I know what to do with.
I don’t have the technical no how to do a review of this all I can say is I’m really chuffed, its better than I could imagine. So long as I wear my glasses.
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Turn off the dynamic contrast for a kick off, they never work 😉
Oh yeah, get some GOOD scart cables, else the noise on the SD picture will drive you insane! You might not notice it now, but you will!
Poor lad you must be getting old : ) Next time you are not sure where you left your glasses look on top of your head, bound to be there… Glad the TV is looking good though.