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Originally Posted by frenchy
...old sets seem to have tendency to play up certain colors over others....
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What finally made me go public… ‘er, AudioKarma, was (1) achieving ‘standard’ HDTV-hues that are eyeball-duplicate on the CT-100 and (2) finally accepting the modified chroma-AFC alignment-procedure as okay (where final tweaking of L41 is needed because the circuit
needs it, not because a component has drifted).
It should be remembered that all other hues on the CT-100 screen eyeball-matched those on the ‘standard’ HDTV screen. Only the green stood out and only on that character’s hat.
Here’s another CT-100 screen shot taken the same night. There are three different areas of green; two on the hat and one weird snow-capped mountain whose base is green seen through the now-open door. That green matches the HDTV green.
So, I’m speculating for now that the striking green on the character’s hat is a result of wider gamut and not some unusual peaking or weird spurious oscillation somewhere in the CTC2 chassis.
But I could be wrong. And so my next step is to rearrange my living room over the next couple of days, time permitting, with the CT-100 to the right of the HDTV. Then develop some photographic evidence supporting or debunking current speculation.
Was chatting with John Folsom yesterday and recalled that in September I reported the same effect as here. That time it was the eyes of a cartoon character that were vivid on the CT-100 but not in control images.
Here it is: “There's a commercial playing for a Lilo&StitchII (sp?) DVD. The bug-eyed character in the commercial on the CT-100 has bright, intense, large lime-green eyes that pop off the screen at you. Interestingly, in an A-B comparison between the CT-100 and my 38-in. widescreen CRT HD set, there's no similar effect on the HD set, although there may be setup issues to consider. Just came back from seeing the DVD at Target. The eyes in the print version were pale blue and didn't even appear to have been designed to draw attention --nothing like the TV ad to my eyes anyway.”