So I watched my first Blu-ray movie tonight...

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Username2324 said:

stof said:
hm.. Actually, I have a question about high def. Why is it that when you go to an electronics store and see the displays of high def tv's playing high def movies; they all look like crap. And I'm not just talking about when the signal is split to 10 tv's, but even when you see the blu-ray (or hd-dvd), hooked up to the big shiny tv.

Everything always has this weird cubist painting look to it.

I really hate going to electronic stores for that very reason. And there are several reasons why you see it.
1. Customers screw with the settings on the tv's to make them look horrid.
2. The TV channels displayed are either not in HD or signal quality totally sucks.
3. The TV's have been damaged or have had pictures burned into them.
4. Bad connections, either between the HD player and TV or between the television source and TV.
5. The settings on the TV's are not optimized to look their best.
6. Damaged equipment.

 

It's also because the displays are usually on "Vivid" mode.  This mode is meant to show of the "amazing" colors that the TV can display, and usually makes the image overly bright, somewhat less detailed, and far too colorful.  It looks somewhat like a painting, like Stof said, but a painting that burns eyes. O_O