Thin frame TVs
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Whats the obsession with TVs with no frame to the picture. advert I just read for a new LG "features a stunning, minimised frame to provide the ultimate immersive 3D viewing experience"
Everything I ever read and was taught, back in the day, said that for comfortable viewing, aid tire should have a surrounding frame, ideally black, so that your eyes can differentiate between the image and the background. I would have thought this would be especially true with 3D.
Is this no longer the case, or are modern TVs (which are also not deep enough to house proper speakers) form over function?
Everything I ever read and was taught, back in the day, said that for comfortable viewing, aid tire should have a surrounding frame, ideally black, so that your eyes can differentiate between the image and the background. I would have thought this would be especially true with 3D.
Is this no longer the case, or are modern TVs (which are also not deep enough to house proper speakers) form over function?
You can argue all this stuff for hours, but when all is said and done its what works for you.
I always tell customers to go and see, what I think is a nice picture may not float your boat.
My opion of 3d is not yet, the tv I buy after the next one will be 3d, but right now Im going to wait for the technology to settle down, Internet TV may have sorted itself a bit more clearly by then too.
I always tell customers to go and see, what I think is a nice picture may not float your boat.
My opion of 3d is not yet, the tv I buy after the next one will be 3d, but right now Im going to wait for the technology to settle down, Internet TV may have sorted itself a bit more clearly by then too.
talkssense said:
Whats the obsession with TVs with no frame to the picture. advert I just read for a new LG "features a stunning, minimised frame to provide the ultimate immersive 3D viewing experience"
Everything I ever read and was taught, back in the day, said that for comfortable viewing, aid tire should have a surrounding frame, ideally black, so that your eyes can differentiate between the image and the background.
That would mean that the TV is unable to display pure black then.Everything I ever read and was taught, back in the day, said that for comfortable viewing, aid tire should have a surrounding frame, ideally black, so that your eyes can differentiate between the image and the background.
Watching my Kuro in a dark room, where the image/bezel ends and the dark background begins is impossible to distinguish.
Hardly a gimmick!?! It is down to aesthetics. The original argument was that the boarder increased the contrast on the display (or to be more accurate gave your eye something to compare to) but I think that was an excuse as they had no option.
I know I would rather have a modern Samsung in my living room than my old Panasonic with a cm of black plastic round it.
I know I would rather have a modern Samsung in my living room than my old Panasonic with a cm of black plastic round it.
I think I'll give the latest fad of thin-bezel TV's a miss and stick to the my fat-bezel Kuro, after all there still isn't a TV, (thin bezel or not), that can match or even surpass the picture quality of a Kuro, four years after they were introduced.
Edited by Flawless Victory on Wednesday 2nd May 16:19
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