Doubts about the Laser TV?

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Wednesday, 11 October 2006 21:34

Your IT - Entertainment

The Laser TV is coming, but some existing TV manufacturers seem to have some doubts. Naturally, this should come as no surprise, especially as the Laser TV seems set to knock competing technologies off their perch, and the all important Christmas season is nearing. So what are the doubters saying?

 

It all really comes down to conjecture, as none of the people I’ve spoken to have seen the Laser TV, but they still raise a few interesting questions.

To start with, one well known ‘trick’ of the retail trade when it comes to displaying big screen TVs is to set them all to maximum brightness. This is almost necessary in stores, where the lighting is bright and nothing like the lighting most people have in their living rooms. Most people also don’t have a wall of TVs lined up next to each other, all competing for your visual attention. Keeping all the TV’s pictures bright makes them really stand out.

So one of the questions posed, regarding the plasma TV used in the side-by-side comparison with the Laser TV, is... was the plasma TV set up correctly, or were the colours dulled a little to make the Laser TV look better? And was the Laser TV set to maximum brightness with the colours set to look richer, or was it the standard image you would expect to see once you took a Laser TV out of its box?

Without having a top-end plasma TV to hand, along with the Laser TV itself to do some testing, we don’t know the answer to this question. One would assume that no such underhanded behaviour would have taken place, however the question has been asked, and so the seeds of doubt have been planted – although as we’ve already stated, this is to be expected from the competition who stand to be affected.