So here I am, 1 week later with my new panel..
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Di ko na siguro tatanggaling yung plastic. Wala naman ill effects yun diba since it doesn't get hot?
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Parang ayaw na namin ipa-wall bracket kasi mag-aagawan sila ng attention nung painting, so pinatong ko nalang sa narra coffee table.
I'm not sure kung kelangan pa namin kumuha ng more decent looking tv stand kasi it serves its purpose naman, and its sturdy!
I also hooked it up with my 2.1 speaker system para may "ooomph" naman ang movie viewing ko, and so far I'm content. Maybe further along the line, I'll get myself a 5.1 or maybe even a 7.1. Ipon ipon muna.
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As far as HD movies go, wala akong masabi.. Its everything I hoped it would be.
Sa video source nalang magkakatalo. I acquired a copy of Cars2 (7.65gb bluray rip) and it was perfect.
And then the Transformers Trilogy (1.7gb each. Really good encoders. Despite the low size, still 1080p, albeit not as perfect, still a very acceptable compromise)
Napa mura nga yung tropa ko when I invited them over!
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And then of course, connecting my rig.. Tried VGA to VGA, DVI to HDMI, and then finally acquired a standard HDMI to HDMI cable (1.8m 250php from PC Express).
As expected, hdmi offered the best quality as far as my eyes could tell, plus no need for additional audio in.
Gaming bliss.. 2k12, Lost Planet2, Skyrim, Devil May Cry4..
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This bravia boasts incredible greens.. I have some 1080p photos here with grids, 1 pixel text, gradients, bars, etc. The red and blue weren't as perfect but that should be fixed with some calibration.
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Unfortunately though, it looks like not even Sony is free from clouding/backlight bleeding.
Impossible to see when there's a source of light, and barely visible when in complete darkness.
At first, my friend and I didn't see any bleeding at all(even with the lights off).
But I just had to make sure and see it thru the lens of my camera. And then lo and behold, there it was.
I contemplated whether I should return it or not, pero sabi ni Ma wag na daw.
I was overreacting daw and they don't even notice it.
Sa camera lang talaga kitang kita. So I decided, that I could live with the flaw, plus sigurado hindi rin nila makikita sa Anson's yun kasi ang liwanag sa showroom. And hindi rin naman guaranteed na wala ring sakit yung replacement panel.
Tama yung sinabi nila, dapat hindi mo hinahanap ang backlight bleeding.. Haha. Mabwibwiset ka lang.
Moving on!
Ang reklamo ko lang sa kanya is USB playback.
We already know na it doesn't decode dts, but it also doesn't decode vorbis.
So I had to covert them to AAC then remux with the video file. No biggy.
Ang hassle lang is soft subs with mkvs.
I'm fond of watching anime, and most of it are in mkvs nowadays.
I tried everyting.. Extracting the subtitle file (srt, ssa, etc) then renaming it exactly the same as your video file then putting them in the same folder.. Didn't work!
Eventually gave up and decided to just reencode the file and hard subbing it.
Strangely enough, even after selecting BURN-in subs in Handbrake, it still wouldn't display it when I selected the container to be MKV. But it did when I selected mp4.
So para makaiwas sa hassle, pag manunuod ako ng may subs, rekta pc nalang via HDMI.
At the end of the day, ang masasabi ko lang.. I've fallen in love with this particular panel.