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Test Bench: Pioneer PRO-FHD1 50-inch 1080p Plasma Monitor
- By Al Griffin
- Posted October 4, 2006
Color temperature (User preset/Low color temperature before calibration / User preset/Manual color temperature after calibration): Low window (30 IRE): 6,278/6,501 K High window (80 IRE): 6,089/6,620 K Brightness (100-IRE window before/after calibration): 36.7/34.3 ftL

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Hitachi 42HDS69 42-inch Plasma HDTV
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted October 3, 2006
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ViewSonic N4060w 40-inch LCD HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted September 5, 2006
What We Think After some tweaking, this LCD panel looked great on high-def sports, but less so with DVDs and regular TV channels You've got to hand it to LCD technology for it
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Test Bench: Philips Ambilight 42PF9731D 42-inch LCD HDTV
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted September 4, 2006
Unless indicated otherwise, all tests were performed via the HDMI input from an upconverting DVD player set to 720p output.

Color temperature (Warm color temperature, Personal mode before/after calibration): Low window (20 IRE): 6,407/6,657 K High window (80 IRE): 6,814/6,529 K Brightness (100-IRE window before/after calibration): 186/45 ftL

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Philips Ambilight 42PF9731D 42-inch LCD HDTV
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted September 4, 2006
As anyone who has ever fallen asleep in front of Leno can tell you, watching a small, bright television from across a dark room can cause headaches. One of the best ways to alleviate this is to reduce the brightness difference between the screen and the rest of your field of vision.

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Test Bench: ViewSonic N4060w 40-inch LCD HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted September 4, 2006
Color temperature (User preset/Warm Color Temp before calibration / User preset/Normal Color Temp after calibration): Low window (30 IRE): 6,171/6,745 K High window (80 IRE): 8,044/6,514 K Brightness (100-IRE window before/after calibration): 58.4.6/47.5 ftL

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Test Bench: Brillian 6580iFB03 65-inch LCoS HDTV
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted July 5, 2006
I made the following measurements via the DVI input from an upconverting DVD player:

Color temperature (Warm color temperature, Cinema gamma preset, Night mode before calibration): Low window (20 IRE): 6,353/6,464 K High window (80 IRE): 6,879/6,531 K Brightness (100-IRE window before/after calibration): 119/41.3 ftL

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Brillian 6580iFB03 65-inch LCoS HDTV
- By David Katzmaier
- Posted July 5, 2006
Unlike an iPod or a cellphone, an HDTV includes numerous and sometimes very advanced adjustments that can directly improve its performance. Using those controls properly can have more impact on picture quality than any other factor.

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Test Bench: Samsung HP-S5053 50-inch Plasma HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted July 4, 2006
Color temperature (Movie preset/Warm 2 Color Tone before/after calibration): Low window (30-IRE): 6,885/6,431 K High window (80-IRE): 6,431/6,524 K Brightness (100-IRE window before/after calibration): 31.6/26.6 ftL

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Samsung HP-S5053 50-inch Plasma HDTV
- By Al Griffin
- Posted July 4, 2006
Samsung has its hands in so many different TV categories - front- and rear-projection DLP TVs, flat-panel plasma and LCD sets, even old-school cathode-ray tube models - that it's hard to keep track of all the stuff they sell.

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Test Bench: Westinghouse LVM-42w2 42-inch LCD HDTV Monitor
- By Al Griffin
- Posted June 5, 2006
Color temperature (Color 1 preset before/after calibration): Low window (30 IRE): 7,438/6,758 K High window (80 IRE): 6,833/6,355 K Brightness (100-IRE window before/after calibration): 61.1/40.4 ftL

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Panasonic TH-42PX60U 42-inch Plasma HDTV
- By Philip Ryan
- Posted June 4, 2006
What We Think This entry-level Panasonic plasma has a few things going for it, but a couple of performance issues pull it down. A lot of the recent excitement about flat-panel TVs
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