One thing they forgot to tell you about lcd's

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#1 smurfah15
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when your looking for a good lcd tv make sure you can set the backlight really low, don't be fooled by what the store has since the store has lots of light all around most of the backlights light is canceled deliverying a rich black level tv, but once in a dark room too much backlight gives bad black levels(or grey for those really dark scens), I myself have two lcds' my moms you can set the light really low and tune the contrast ratio to get really awesome black level, but the cheap as tv I bought on boxing has no backlight option and the light is extremely bright, so I did the red neck thing and put some window tint over my screen get perfect blacks in the dark now .
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Interesting, but doesn't that distort all your colours?
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#3 Kodai_kun
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The window tint definately does, it's amber. He's right that setting the backlight as low as you can (may not be necessary on new dynamic backlighting sets) will help tho
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#4 smurfah15
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Interesting, but doesn't that distort all your colours?dmanrevived
i sampled many tints, yes some do and others don't ,
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#5 Kodai_kun
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There's no way it doesn't. You're overlaying another color over them all
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#6 smurfah15
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There's no way it doesn't. You're overlaying another color over them allKodai_kun
they do the same with plasmas , its a a grey tint so its lowering the greyness of the colors and yest colours are about bright but in the RGB option i can control the intensity of the 3 primary colours, on tint i had was violet, adn i had now luck you just have to look around the to "grey" tints and now the brownish, or purpliesh ones
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#7 Kodai_kun
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they do the same with plasmas , its a a grey tint so its lowering the greyness of the colors and yest colours are about bright but in the RGB option i can control the intensity of the 3 primary colours, on tint i had was violet, adn i had now luck you just have to look around the to "grey" tints and now the brownish, or purpliesh ones

You do realize that the tint they use on plasmas is there to reduce the sharp intensity the screen would have (eyestrain) without it, and that the colors are programmed and balanced for the set with that particular tint in mind, and that whatever you're tacking over is NOT designed for it.