Samsung HL61A750 61-inch LED-Lit DLP HDTV

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Continuing on with the 1080i test disc, while I could definitelydelineate the fine horizontal lines in the Film Resolution LossTest, all four of the corner boxes unfortunately strobed withunmistakable vertical lines left and right. In the Stadium FilmResolution Loss Test, what begins as a slight twitch on the upperdeck stands became a full-blown moiré pattern about ten secondsin, particularly on the darker seats toward the right of thescreen. So in the HD deinterlacing realm, the HL61A750 fights noisewell but some of the more demanding details in actual image contentwere a strain.
Moving on to the standard def test DVD, tiny black-and-whitehorizontal lines were clearly visible at Marker "1" of the ColorBar/Vertical Detail pattern, while the transition from dark tolight blue was happily smooth and subtle suggesting excellent greyscale and color gradation. While minor, quivering processing couldbe seen along the edge of the long white bar of "Jaggies" Pattern1. In general the performance was good, which is to say notdistracting. "Jaggies" Pattern 2 proffered quite smooth edges onall three bars, although the head and foot of some, particularlythe bottom bar, were doing a weird little shuffle. There's a slightbend in this same spot on the sample "Pass" frame so I guess thisis to be forgiven. Acceptable, natural detail was evident in thetexture of the background building and only modest jagged edgeswere noticeable on the flapping flag.
Picture Detail was a tough one this time, with a definite,disappointing softness to the bridge scene in all of the key areas:the close, fine lines of the steps, the basic curves of the statue,the hard rectangles that make up the bridge, and what should havebeen the many individual blades of grass. There were no obviousscan lines or outline ringing, but the blurriness bothered my eyes.The nature imagery in the Noise Reduction section showed only aminor twitchiness, some faint mosquito noise on the tree in thefinal shot, although image detail was good overall.
Motion Adaptive Noise Reduction was sharp enough, with no smearingin the motion and minimal sky noise in the roller coaster shots,even less over the boat/bridge shot. And it's always fun to spotthat fraction of a second of the moiré pattern in the 3:2Detection segment, then watch the TV in question make light work ofit. In almost no time, the HL61A750 rendered a clean, stable imagefor most of the first pass of the Super Speedway clip and for all of every pass thereafter. This was a hugeimprovement over the HL-T5087S, which lacked 3:2 pulldownprocessing and so was unable to detect the underlying film cadenceand correct for it. It's important to note that for the set todetect and correct for film cadence, FILM MODE must be set to ON inthe Picture menu.
Coffee cups were surprisingly twitchy at most of the funkier FilmCadences, and the newspaper in the shot often showed artifacting aswell, although more common formats such as 3-2 24 fps film sourcematerial looked good. The Horizontal Text Crawl in Mixed 3:2 FilmMixed with Added Video Titles was beautifully clear, while Verticalbegan and ended well but broke into jittery lines during the middleportion. So it was a mixed bag performance-wise on the test discs,bullish on noise and 3:2 pull-down but soft on detail.
In terms of the set's 3D features, the implementation is the sameas seen in the earlier model, so for details on how that works, seemy review of the HL-T5087S . But beyond this, the set's perormance diverges from itspredecessor in several significant ways.
No surprise, the additional inches of the HL61A750 vs. the 50-inchmodel lent additional cinematic impact to all movie watching.Blacks were solid, but I was more interested in watching Samsung'slatest spin on their CinemaPure Color Engine in action, driven asit is by the Generation 2.4 LEDs, promising high contrast, definededges and sharp details, in addition to a wider color gamut.Indeed, colors were especially impressive. I began with 10,000 BC , whose hues so amazed me in my recent Blu-ray disc review, andhere too revealed an almost jaw-dropping vibrancy. I switched overto the synthetic shades of Ratatouille , and again I was hypnotized by the broad palette.