CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

[cmjohnson]

I got to take a look at a Quatron display today and I would have preferred it if it had been displayed side by side with a "most similar type" of conventional display running the same demo media. That wasn't available.

However, there was also a Quatron running on the wall with all the other flat panel displays in the store (A Best Buy) and that allowed
me to make SOME comparisons.


Frankly I'm not seeing anything revolutionary here. The differences I did see were well within the range of differences in picture qualities
that were represented among all the "ordinary" RGB-based sets on display, due to variations in calibration and color temperature settings
and various other differences.

Granted, yellows were clear...but I saw equally clear yellows in other (apparently) well calibrated displays, too.

I will say that the Quatrons did look good. They were among the better displays in sight. But from what I saw, they did not have an
edge over a well calibrated conventional display that I was able to discern.

It would be interesting to compare similar models, one RGB, one Quatron, after calibration and in competition on a level playing field.


CJ

[skippyar]

I find the shop environment is not ideally suited for comparisions when promoting potential capabilities, some stores near me tend to use wonky video source distributions units.

Asda (Wallmart) always makes me cringe, every widescreen flat panel tv displays a corrupt digitised looking RF signal offset with bad resolution ratio, dynamic contrast, high saturation demo-mode. I don't think my local store realises the source is 4:3. (In all fairness they're not a specialist A/V retailer.)

I've not seen the Quattron in stores anywhere to date.