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I use a Samsung television and monitor, and the high contrast is nice. Many LCDs in the price range (Samsung's are usually at the cheap end) have very poor blacks. Some of the image processing is strange (you can often see the contrast change if a movie goes from black-heavy to a bright image) however.

Yeah, I have dynamic contrast turned off, because that bugs me. You still get the DNIe processing, for the deeper blacks, but not the visible contrast changes.

Really? I couldn't find the menu option to turn it off (aside from the 'split screen' demo thing). Do I fail at televisions?

Mobius wrote: jump in dude: SRW XO is already available :p

Why would I want a port of a game I already own? I've played it and I'm not that impressed.

My general impression of its impact has been none.

Stark wrote:Really? I couldn't find the menu option to turn it off (aside from the 'split screen' demo thing). Do I fail at televisions?

On mine, it's in the Picture options, second icon down.

The options are

Mode
Size
Digital NR
DNIe Demo
My Colour Control
Dynamic Contrast
Brightness Sensor
PIP.

Dynamic Contrast is the one that alters contrast to match what's on screen. You get slightly less deep blacks with it off, but you don't have the visible contrast changes. For an even more stable picture but again with some loss of black, turn off the brightness sensor, which dims the backlight according to ambient light in your room.

Sharp-kun wrote:

Mobius wrote: jump in dude: SRW XO is already available :p

Why would I want a port of a game I already own? I've played it and I'm not that impressed.

My general impression of its impact has been none.

it has Live, which was enough for me

Vendetta wrote:Samsung LCDs have an image processing algorithm that improves contrast and produces one of the best blacks on an LCD, even with a standard CCFL. They're also pretty much the biggest LCD panel manufacturer in the world, with only LG on a comparable level. (for the last few years Samsung have had something like 25% of the global market for LCD panels in all applications, with LG slightly behind on 20-23%)

Edit: They also scale SD images fairly well. I've heard horror stories about what SD signals can end up like on a HD set. I've not seen that on my Samsung.

SD telly on a big HDTV is really not nice for the most part. The Bravias have nice methods of dealing with it (uh, the Bravia engine, strangely enough) and while I don't too like watching SD transmissions on the 32", it's tolerable but far better for DVDs or gaming, which likely says something about the Sky transmission quality more than the TV.

The true black and contrast issues of LCDs originally is what put me off getting into them and looking at OLED or DLP based technologies, however, those are far newer and less reliable at the time, so LCD is the best bet. Certainly don't touch plasma, cheap as they are now.

I'm still using a CRT for my PC until I see a decent LCD monitor that doesn't cost a packet to replace it with.