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From: dyson@inuxh.UUCP (John Dyson)
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: New Sony XBR series
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Date: Tue, 19-Feb-85 15:28:15 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 19 15:28:15 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 22-Feb-85 07:07:51 EST
Organization: AT&T Consumer Products Div., Indianapolis
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I am currently a proud owner of a Sony 20XBR and a 19 inch Proton
component TV system.  I find that the Proton is indeed much sharper
than the 20XBR.  In fact the Proton is much too much sharper.  When
supplied with character generator type inputs like home computers or
cable TV system information pages the Proton seems to have a peaked
high frequency response (guess) that causes the edges of the characters to
have video overshoot.  The Sony however has very sharply defined characters
with comparatively little such overshoot.  After comparing the actual detail
resolved by the Sony and the beautiful, relatively noise free color saturation
provided by the Sony,  I am almost ready to junk my Proton.  To me, an overly
sharp picture is not a good picture.

By the way, has anybody actually looked at the color accuracy of a Proton?
I do not like orangish reds and muted greens.  The Proton also seems to
have problems with the leading edge of flesh tones.  Under some conditions
of transitions from certain colors to flesh tones there is a leading
greenish cast.  I have seen this on at least 2 Proton 19 inch monitors
and 1 Proton 19 inch TV.  It does not appear to be a convergence problem,
but an artifact of the NTSC decoder.

I am not really going to junk my Proton, it is much much
better than most of the other TVs on the market.  I'll be willing to
sell it if I can get enough out of it to buy another Sony 20XBR.

Note that these views are my opinions and not those of AT+T CP.

			John Dyson