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    BeoVision 7 LCD Gets Bigger, Pricier, and Blu-rayier

    Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown

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    Study Claims Motion Blur Is a Non-Issue In Most Mid-To-High-End LCDs

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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    In reply to Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
    It's Blackhole Friday. The deals are difficult to detect, except for traces of hyperbolic radiation. However, if you get too close you'll get sucked past the Sales Event horizon, where your budget will be stretched thinner and thinner, until not even your credit can help you escape the massive sucking force. #targetblackfriday
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    11/11/09

    In reply to BeoVision 7 LCD Gets Bigger, Pricier, and Blu-rayier
    But... if it costs more, it's inherently better, just like how people who have more money are inherently smarter.

    Right? #beovision7
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    Image of psychiccheese psychiccheese
    11/11/09

    @superberg:
    Paris Hilton and MONSTER cable approve of your comment. #beovision7
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    superberg promoted this comment psychiccheese was starred psychiccheese was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @psychiccheese: Quiet with the MNSTR references! You wanna get Gizmodo sued? #beovision7
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    11/11/09

    In reply to BeoVision 7 LCD Gets Bigger, Pricier, and Blu-rayier
    Their entertainment system is called "B.O." vision? #beovision7
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    11/11/09

    In reply to Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
    I don't know, that 32" TV and those external hard drives look mighty tempting to me... and that XBox 360 bundle might be good for the folks that missed Wal-Mart's special last weekend. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of UnderLoK UnderLoK
    11/11/09

    In reply to Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
    Prices have been low at most retailers for the past year so I haven't been too surprised to see these kinds of deals coming out.

    Hell, Macy's for example has serious deals going on if your a guy. I basically paid 30% of what I would have (needed jeans) had I bought these same items a year and a half ago.
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    Edited by UnderLoK at 11/11/09 11:38 AM UnderLoK was starred UnderLoK was unstarred
    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/11/09

    @UnderLoK: Yeah, I picked up a pair of $70 designer jeans for $15 the other day because the store had decided to cut back on the number of brands it carried. Too bad they only had one pair in my size though.
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    Edited by Lite: hates Illinois Nazis at 11/11/09 11:57 AM Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was starred Lite: hates Illinois Nazis was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: I always loved the term "Designer Jeans" as a signifier of superiority. As though other, lesser, jeans merely evolved haphazardly and are struggling to survive in a rapidly changing, harsh department store ecology. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of zeroprime zeroprime
    11/11/09

    @met2art: They're the more Intelligent buy. #targetblackfriday
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    met2art promoted this comment zeroprime was starred zeroprime was unstarred
    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @zeroprime: #zeroprimeowns: Perhaps, but with a lot of legwork, a thorough study of the jeanome (in various pockets of the world) shows an evolutionary process. It would be a unseamly waist to hem and haw over the issue. Of course, most people don't cotton to debates over the evolution of jeans. I say, zip it, and let the scientists button it up. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of zeroprime zeroprime
    11/11/09

    @met2art: Such whimsical yet prevalent punnery, that star of yours is well and rightly earned. No doubts to be had. *bows* #targetblackfriday
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    Image of RoofCoffeeCup RoofCoffeeCup
    11/11/09

    In reply to Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
    As long as they have a season of House on sale for $13-15, I'm happy as can be. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of En0s1 En0s1
    11/11/09

    @RoofCoffeeCup: Wait even the Coffee Cup gets a star? What the Hell?

    By the way House may even be worth the full price. C'mon Target... take more of my limited disposable income. #targetblackfriday
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    GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking promoted this comment En0s1 was starred En0s1 was unstarred
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    11/11/09

    @En0s1: I've bought season 1 thru 3 of House during each of the previous years at Target, and the good thing is they raincheck DVD's, so if it's out of stock, you can still get it. I like House, but I won't pay full price for something I can watch for free. I will pay a nominal fee to hear why it's not Lupus.

    And also, the RoofCoffeeCup is full of awesome, so of course he's starred. #targetblackfriday
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    11/11/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking: Agreed... discount on entertainment is always full of win in my book. Also, I do not doubt the RoofCoffeeCup... I'm just dealing with star-envy today. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    11/11/09

    @En0s1: Try riding on a car roof at 75mph on the GSP. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of Cogito Ergo Bibo Cogito Ergo Bibo
    11/11/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_IsSlacking: I tend to do that with House as well. Wait for the Target sale. Saunter in. Find the usual empty shelf. Collect my rain check. My buy point for that show is $19.99. Anything less than that is gravy. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    11/11/09

    In reply to Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
    $60 for a 1TB hard drive is worth noting, too. #targetblackfriday
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/11/09

    In reply to Target's Black Friday Ad Is Yet Another Black Friday Letdown
    I'm pretty sure we've been expecting spectacularly lousy Black Friday Ads. Didn't Best Buy even warn about this? #targetblackfriday
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    11/11/09

    @Lite: So BB came right out and said, expect our prices to high this holiday season...? #targetblackfriday
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    11/11/09

    @Geisrud: I believe they said don't expect amazing door busters... #targetblackfriday
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    Image of met2art met2art
    11/11/09

    @Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Essentially, "Times are tough. We'd like to screw you over a little less during the holidays, but shit ain't like that."
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    Edited by met2art at 11/11/09 12:45 PM met2art was starred met2art was unstarred
    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    11/06/09

    In reply to Study Claims Motion Blur Is a Non-Issue In Most Mid-To-High-End LCDs
    Just as there are "super noses" who can detect the slightest variation in a million wines, or people who can tell you exactly which frequency they're hearing, there will be people who can see blur in most LCDs.

    Personally I haven't seen LCD blur since around 12-15ms response times became the norm. I see MPEG artifacting and trailing, and even dim afterimages in HDMI signals on PS3 and 360, but motion is not an issue. #motionblur
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    Image of Meantux Meantux
    11/05/09

    In reply to Why You Don't Need To Spend Extra Money On a 240 Hz LCD TV
    To illustrate this effect we either need something filmed by a hd-high-speed camera or at least some high res snapshots of the difformed result, not with some low-res 15fps that adds its own artefacts and clunkyness. #refreshrates
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    Image of HIcycles HIcycles
    11/05/09

    @Meantux: Right? I couldn't tell the difference. #refreshrates
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    d_r_e promoted this comment HIcycles was starred HIcycles was unstarred
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    11/05/09

    @HIcycles: Same here. I couldn't tell the difference either. #refreshrates
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/06/09

    @Meantux:
    I'm glad I'm not the only person who got absolutely nothing other then confusion out of that video. #refreshrates
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    Image of TheClap TheClap
    11/05/09

    In reply to Why You Don't Need To Spend Extra Money On a 240 Hz LCD TV
    I um....cant tell the difference.... What is this soap opera effect? We have a Sony Bravia that has the 120Hz thing but I dont notice a soap opera effect. #refreshrates
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    Image of Geekfox Geekfox
    11/05/09

    @TheClap: Taking a 24 frame per second film and recreating frames (usually doubling frame rates or more) to life-like motion is what some called "soap opera" effect, as some TV shows like soap operas can broadcast a life-like motion of 60 frames per second while other shows or films or animated cartoons broadcast at 24 or 30 frames per second.

    Personally, I hate calling the effect "soap opera", as I don't watch soap operas -- but I think it's a critic's term to define life-like motions for motion interpolation features on HDTV sets. #refreshrates
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    Image of Norm the Alligator Norm the Alligator
    11/05/09

    In reply to Why You Don't Need To Spend Extra Money On a 240 Hz LCD TV
    My set does 120 Hz, but I keep it off. I don't like watching high budget movies that result in looking like they're made for TV. My BluRay player gives me the option of 24p which is what I keep on instead. #refreshrates
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    psychonaut2021:Secrets of the Pineal Gland approved this comment Norm the Alligator was starred Norm the Alligator was unstarred
    Image of JayD16 JayD16
    11/05/09

    @Keith Noordzy: Isn't that more nostalgia than picture quality? #refreshrates
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    Image of Daniel Wong Daniel Wong
    11/05/09

    @JayD16: no its actually more accurate and has a better PQ. movies are made to be seen in 24hz #refreshrates
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    ripfire promoted this comment Daniel Wong was starred Daniel Wong was unstarred
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    11/05/09

    @Daniel Wong: Actually, while the film runs on 24hz, movie theater projectors flash the frames twice or three times the rate to reduce flicker. #refreshrates
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/06/09

    @Norm the Alligator:
    Is this why bluray movies shown on new 240hz screens look like absolute surreal crap? The worst for this was animated movies like Wall*E, which reminded of those old school animations that came out of the first CGI college classes back in the early to mid 90's. You all know the ones I'm talking about. #refreshrates
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    11/06/09

    @ripfire:
    Why would they do this? Flicker is a good thing, as it keeps the audience in a semi-trance, and glued to the movie screen. I just watched a program on Discovery HD that talked about how Sony had to spend millions getting their HD theater projectors to perform more like traditional film projectors, while keeping the higher resolution and cleaner image. #refreshrates
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    Image of aniteshj aniteshj
    11/05/09

    In reply to Why You Don't Need To Spend Extra Money On a 240 Hz LCD TV
    In the same way WHAT content is natively rendered at 120Hz, or 240Hz?

    I like my plasma because it doesn't pull the "soap opera effect" on everything I watch, and please don't say you can turn it off. The feature should exist to complement and add to the experiance. Not soap opera everything.

    Well everything I am saying is a moot point, I don't care what LCD has going for it.

    I have a Kuro. :P #refreshrates
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    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    11/05/09

    @aniteshj: I do believe that effect is caused by Digital Natural Motion, which is a form of software processing, not by the 120/240Hz refresh rates themselves. Those refresh rates(at least this is the effect for me) actually make the frame rates of both film(for blu-ray disks, 24Hz) and HDTV(60Hz) go in evenly, which removes the need for nasty effects such as 3:2 pulldown. #refreshrates
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    ripfire promoted this comment MarcusMaximus was starred MarcusMaximus was unstarred
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    11/05/09

    @MarcusMaximus: Read the article. #refreshrates
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    Image of cbstryker cbstryker
    11/05/09

    @ripfire: MarcusMaximus is right. It's the software (or algorithms) that causes the issue. And the main benefit of a 240Hz TV is to be able to watch 3D content at 120Hz (per eye that is). For everything else 120Hz is just fine. Actually it's perfect. #refreshrates
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    ripfire promoted this comment cbstryker was starred cbstryker was unstarred
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    11/06/09

    @cbstryker: I'm not saying he's wrong. I'm just saying read the article because it explains everything. #refreshrates
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    Image of Mike Mike
    11/05/09

    In reply to Why You Don't Need To Spend Extra Money On a 240 Hz LCD TV
    Does this affect LCDs with LED backlighting? I'm thinking of buying the Samsung LED TV but the 240 Hz is so much more expensive than the 120 Hz.
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    Nick promoted this comment Edited by Mike at 11/05/09 6:05 PM Mike was starred Mike was unstarred
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    11/05/09

    @Mike: i don't think it is an issue that stems from the light source, but the processor. i believe it starts to incorporate frame interpolation with higher refresh rates and what not which ain't everyone's cup-o-noodle. #refreshrates
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    Image of mlvds mlvds
    11/05/09

    @Mike: Just buy a Panasonic Plasma anything about S1 series...you can't go wrong...

    I have a 2006 600series and I been more then happy with it..

    There will be huge deal after Black Friday! #refreshrates
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    dingus promoted this comment mlvds was starred mlvds was unstarred
    Image of NeerajSV NeerajSV
    11/05/09

    @Nick: Its not the processor.. its the response time of the pixels to change state. Liquid crystals are, after all, physical entities that twist and bend to change the color of light passing though them. It take time to go from one state to anther. #refreshrates
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    Nick promoted this comment NeerajSV was starred NeerajSV was unstarred
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    11/05/09

    @NeerajSV: your comment disagrees with what the original article seems to be alluding to. #refreshrates
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    Image of Mike Mike
    11/05/09

    @mlvds: The room has a huge glass sliding door facing the sun. Plasmas are better for darker rooms. #refreshrates
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    Mike was starred Mike was unstarred
    Image of John Duffin John Duffin
    11/05/09

    @Nick: The issue with lcd is the response time as Nick says, generally around 6 - 8ms on LCD, however Plasma has much less time <1ms therefore less motionblur. The 120HZ and 240HZ interpolate extra frames to smooth out the picture. This can have a video effect on film based content, however i believe this to be far less so than the first chips that came out. The pro versions now input extra blank frames to further smooth the motion and give a more realistic effect. Response time is falling on LCD and however for now if you buy a good set with higher quality interpolation, the effect can be excellent especially on video content. #refreshrates
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    dingus promoted this comment John Duffin was starred John Duffin was unstarred
    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/06/09

    @mlvds: Why would you do this, when you can buy a mirror that size for a hundred bucks, and get the same amount of enjoyment out of the fancy plasma you're talking up?

    Plasma's might be great in a totally dark room, but they are fucking worthless in the average living room. #refreshrates
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    Image of doomsjay doomsjay
    11/04/09

    In reply to Walmart Selling $200 Xbox 360 This Weekend with Free $100 Gift Card
    Can a African Swallow carry an XBox 360 Arcade? #walmartblackfriday
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    Lizard_King promoted this comment doomsjay was starred doomsjay was unstarred
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    11/04/09

    @doomsjay: I only know the airspeed of an unladen swallow, I cannot help you with it's carrying capacity.
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    Edited by Lizard_King at 11/04/09 11:39 PM Lizard_King was starred Lizard_King was unstarred
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