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[CRT_Ben]

With Halo 3's release, Bungie included an A/V calibration tool along with the game. Here's some excerpts from their "How-to" article on the A/V tool:

"HDTVs are pretty much the norm in stores nowadays. They are more expensive than regular sets, but at this point in time, that gap is shrinking and a low-end CRT HDTV set can be picked up for a couple of hundred bucks. Before you scoff and dismiss the old tech, it’s worth noting that many AV buffs prefer the color reproduction the elderly technology provides. In theory, there’s an ancient Princeton CRT that is still considered the absolute greatest HDTV ever made. Some of that is nostalgia for the format – the way folks still love the quality of LPs – and LCDs and certain Plasma displays are not only up to snuff, but in many objective ways, are much better than CRTs ever were.
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There are other technology’s to consider too. LCOS (Liquid Crystal on Silicon) and DLP are used in big screen projection TVs and more conventional projectors. Also inhabiting the high end space is Plasma. This tech is not only free of the problems it used to have (screen burn and refresh rates) it’s arguably the best non-CRT picture available – but you have to pay for the privilege – Pioneer’s high end “Plasma 2.0s” are among the best gaming displays on Earth."

And down at the bottom:

"Further Resources:

http://www.monoprice.com - incredibly, impossibly cheap cables and connectors and adapters and wall mounts. $4 HDMI cable, anyone?

http://www.avsforums.com - scary, terrifying AV experts answer questions for free, but also tell you that if you don’t buy a $1200 subwoofer, you’re basically hurting kittens."

In general I found them to give very sensible advice - it's nice to see something like this that doesn't just spout all the new "must-have" technology at the expense of everything else.

Article here:
http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&link=h3avcal

[Clarence]

[km987654]

It interesting to note that vinyl records have been always acknowledged as having supperior sound to a CD and now some bands are returning to that format. Same goes for valves. Valve based amplfiers are the best. It seems logical that at some point people will realise just how good crts are in projectors.

KM987654

[AnalogRocks]

They may realize it but people are facinated by smaller, smaller, smaller and flat this, and flat that. ( I prefer double D's myself )
So while they realize CRT's are great they won't buy into it because "they're too big".

Here's to hoping though

[AnalogRocks]

They may realize it but people are facinated by smaller, smaller, smaller and flat this, and flat that. ( I prefer double D's myself )
So while they realize CRT's are great they won't buy into it because "they're too big".

Here's to hoping though

[km987654]

Those of us that understand that "more than a handful is NOT a waste" know how good crt projectors are. If that happens to remain a select number of people I don't see any problem. Don't want to be one of the masses here.