| Secret 8: YOU MAY NOT SEE A PICTURE AT
| |
| | VERY CLEAR on what the warranty covers or
|
| ITS BEST.What you should do about
| |
| | doesn't.Mosquito noise.Not buzzing. It's
|
| it:Depends on how deeply you want to
| |
| | a swirling that looks like tiny bugs
|
| crawl into this.Warning!This is technical
| |
| | flying around. You'll see it - if you do
|
| but I'll simplify. Each piece of
| |
| | - in saturated colors.Screen Door Effect.
|
| electronics - a display device (Hi-Def,
| |
| |
|
| digital television) has its own way of
| |
| | It looks like looking through a screen
|
| showing the picture, involving a fixed
| |
| | door into your picture. (Especially - to
|
| number of pixels (picture pieces). This
| |
| | my eye - on Plasma sets.) It's because of
|
| isn't the same for all sets. It isn't the
| |
| | how the set is built (you are actually
|
| necessarily same for DVD players,
| |
| | seeing the holes or spaces between
|
| converters, or whatever else you plug in
| |
| | picture elements). Manufacturers are
|
| to see a picture. So somewhere the data
| |
| | aware of this and doing all they can to
|
| is converted. ALL CONVERSION SCHEMES ARE
| |
| | fix or mitigate it.Blocking.The picture
|
| NOT EQUAL. THERE MAY BE LOSSES of
| |
| | breaks up into little (or bigger!)
|
| resolution, or clarity. There may be what
| |
| | blocks. This is horrible to see unless
|
| they call artifacts.
| |
| | you love modern art. It'll be seen in
|
| And here's a thrill: The TV stations
| |
| | moving pictures of detail. This is the
|
| don't have to use all their new digital
| |
| | worst sin.Rainbows.Certain people see a
|
| bandwidth to broadcast in full
| |
| | rainbow effect in certain DLP (Digital
|
| high-definition. For example, rather than
| |
| | Light Projector) sets. You might notice
|
| being limited to providing one analog
| |
| | it if you look slightly away from the
|
| programming channel, a broadcaster will
| |
| | screen. It's caused by the way the DLPs
|
| be able to provide a super sharp "high
| |
| | work. Some are better at this than
|
| definition" (HDTV) program or multiple
| |
| | others. There's no pot of gold at the
|
| "standard definition" DTV programs
| |
| | end, either.Pixel failure.Since there are
|
| simultaneously. Providing several program
| |
| | so many elements (pixels) to a picture,
|
| streams on one broadcast channel is
| |
| | one or more can fail. THE WARRANTY MIGHT
|
| called "multicasting." The number of
| |
| | STATE that a certain number of failures
|
| programs a station can send on one
| |
| | is okay with them and may even be
|
| digital channel depends on the level of
| |
| | expected. IF you saw it you'd only notice
|
| picture detail, also known as
| |
| | it up close (see section on where to sit
|
| "resolution," desired in each programming
| |
| | in relation to screen - you shouldn't BE
|
| stream. DTV can provide interactive video
| |
| | that close. One or more might also stay
|
| and data services that are not possible
| |
| | lit permanently. That'll be more obvious,
|
| with "analog" technology. They may use
| |
| | a tiny, tiny red in a black scene, for
|
| some of it for something else that makes
| |
| | example. There may be millions of these
|
| them more money. They - or the satellite
| |
| | dots on your screen, to give you a sense
|
| channels - can, in effect, send a
| |
| | of scale. This isn't the end of the
|
| degraded picture alongside another new
| |
| | world.Secret #10: SPEAKERS NEVER SOUND
|
| channel of degraded picture. There's
| |
| | THE WAY THEY DO IN THE STORE. What you
|
| nothing you can do about this.
| |
| | should do about it:Just know it. There's
|
| Nice.Secret #9: ARTIFACTS.Important
| |
| | little you can do. (But in the audio
|
| background on nasty
| |
| | section of I'll tell you all about how
|
| artifacts:Warning:Like a pimple on a
| |
| | to get the best out of your sound.)Why?
|
| teen, after they see it, that's ALL they
| |
| | It has to do with the acoustics of the
|
| see. If you want to live in denial, skip
| |
| | room in which you listen. Each room makes
|
| ahead to Number 10. And these aren't
| |
| | the same speakers sound differently.
|
| REALLY secrets, because you can see them,
| |
| | Sometimes better, sometimes worse. You
|
| but you might not notice right away.What
| |
| | could buy a subwoofer and bring it home
|
| you should do about it:Decide which you
| |
| | and HEAR NO BASS where you sit. But this
|
| can live with and which you can't. It
| |
| | will be covered in the audio section.
|
| will drive you crazy if you let it. Or
| |
| | Along with what you can do about
|
| spend a fortune to get the latest
| |
| | it.There. Now you know 3 more Ugly Home
|
| technology that might have it fixed. Or
| |
| | Theater secrets.
|
| just ignore it. Life isn't perfect. Be
| |
| |
|
