Recent content by MrBoylan

Yes, it supports native aspect ratio. You'll get slight black bars at the top and bottom if you do that with 16:9 material, or larger ones with 2.35:1 material. -CB

Everything wears out. Even LCDs. The most common bulbs used to illuminate an LCD panel have about the same (or lower) life expectancy as current plasmas' rated half lives. And they begin getting dimmer from the moment you turn them on. Is it noticeable? In most cases, no, not for years, so...

There is no such thing as "plasma leakage" - it's a myth. Also, modern plasma designs have close to zero risk of burn-in (particularly if they're calibrated properly), minimal image retention and have 60,000 hours or more lifespan to half-brightness. That works out to about 27 years watching 6...

In gaming mode, the Sony reverts back to 60 Hz processing, so it's going to have the typical LCD artifacts (motion trails, and pixilation of moving images). In its regular modes (with 120 Hz processing on), the picture quality is nice, but (again, for gaming) there is some lag between issuing...

Actually, it's not an HDTV. It has no tuner. But it has twice the number of pixels of a 1080p TV, and 4X the number of pixels of a 720p TV. Manufacturer-stated contrast ratios are not terribly useful - no industry standard for how it's measured. Kinda like "Watts per channel" on audio...

October 7th.

OK, you made good points. So if Tim does work for Gateway, then should we hang him? Or burn him at the stake? Or maybe we just burn the steak and all have a nice barbecue? But that would be a waste of some good steak. Unless we watch it on the Gateway XHD3000 (sorry, had to get back on...

Ditto. Many manufacturers (at least the smart ones) keep an eye on forums, and most do not reveal their affiliation. I have no idea whether Tim in CA is Tim Almeida but as the guy who wrote the article and took the picture that is being referred to above, I would definitely not use the term...