Well, Santa said she's been good this year, particularly putting up with the idiots where she works, (and me), so since her TV died last month, I ordered her a 37w3 after I got back from a week and a half of business travel just before Christmas.
It was delivered yesterday to my home, and after we picked up some new DVI cables we took it over to the house she rents with her girlfriends this afternoon and unpacked and set it up.
It's an unpreposessing looking unit, understated is probably the right word. No tuner built in, but 6 1080 capable inputs (1 HDMI, 2 DVI, 1 VGA, 2 component) make it a fairly flexible monitor.
For now we set it up with an Oppo 971 upscaling DVD player on DVI1 input, and her Comcast HD cable box on component- the other DVI will be used with her Mac Powerbook, and HDMI is "reserved" for a future HD disk player of some type, I guess.
The contrast and overall quality look pretty good- color balance on neutral or Warm settings seemed pretty much on, we did back off on saturation a bit, and set the backlight to low- this thing is a real torch if you crank up the backlight and contrast. I'm going to have to bring over an AVIA disk later and do a quick calibrate, but I have to say there's nothing "wrong" at all with how it looks right now, probably because this thing is primarily a monitor, not a juiced up TV with a gazillion "video" effects circuits that need to be turned off to get a natural looking picture.
Kill Bill looked pretty fine... we had to concentrate to stay on task for the setup and not just get sucked into watching the movie.
Certainly a strong value proposition for 1080P on a budget.
~Jon
It was delivered yesterday to my home, and after we picked up some new DVI cables we took it over to the house she rents with her girlfriends this afternoon and unpacked and set it up.
It's an unpreposessing looking unit, understated is probably the right word. No tuner built in, but 6 1080 capable inputs (1 HDMI, 2 DVI, 1 VGA, 2 component) make it a fairly flexible monitor.
For now we set it up with an Oppo 971 upscaling DVD player on DVI1 input, and her Comcast HD cable box on component- the other DVI will be used with her Mac Powerbook, and HDMI is "reserved" for a future HD disk player of some type, I guess.
The contrast and overall quality look pretty good- color balance on neutral or Warm settings seemed pretty much on, we did back off on saturation a bit, and set the backlight to low- this thing is a real torch if you crank up the backlight and contrast. I'm going to have to bring over an AVIA disk later and do a quick calibrate, but I have to say there's nothing "wrong" at all with how it looks right now, probably because this thing is primarily a monitor, not a juiced up TV with a gazillion "video" effects circuits that need to be turned off to get a natural looking picture.
Kill Bill looked pretty fine... we had to concentrate to stay on task for the setup and not just get sucked into watching the movie.
Certainly a strong value proposition for 1080P on a budget.
~Jon
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Probably Seabiscuit or Out of Sight, though she expressed some interest in MI-3. 
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