Mitsubishi 2011 DLP Defect Blurs Facial Features, Puts Braces On Teeth
NOTE 1: There is no sound in this video; instead I direct your attention with the mouse. Please be patient. It's slow to start but picks up quickly! NOTE 2: A similar video is available for download, to play on your Blu-Ray player, to test your own TV. Instructions below. NOTE 3: Unlike the Blu-Ray version, this video here online, is not meant to be viewed on the WD-73640, but on another display so that the defects can be seen better. NOTE 4: This video is best viewed in it's maximum size, 1920x1080p, or "Full HD", a size you can select from the top after you click the Play button. Then you can make the video go full screen. Smugmug, my host, rocks. This video demonstrates the input decoding defect of my 2011 73" DLP Rear Projection HDTV, the Mitsubishi WD-73640. This happens on all inputs, all 3 HDMI, named PC or not, and also on the Component Inputs. The defect is about the TV's serious mishandling of light reds, browns, and skin tones BUT NOT IN TERMS OF COLOR ACCURACY / COLOR CALIBRATION, but rather in terms of these colors changing when in proximity to certain other colors or in certain patterns, causing bleeding, bleeding of introduced whites, greys and blacks into them and surrounding pixels, and as if "jumbling pixels together" with end result SERIOUS BLURRING, in such a way that detail in Facial features and hair are BLURRED. Not off color, blurred. The mishandling causes other artifacts beyond blurring, including white spots inside the black hole of nostrils, inside corners of eyes and mouths, and white/gray lines between teeth and lips, and much more. Separately, and less concerning to me, bright greens and yellows have their own problems, causing a form of oversharpening: halos and bright twinkly white dots that are not in the source image. I'm filming a center area of the TV's screen, on which is displayed an image I created from several small images that exhibit the defect. To demonstrate that the defect is related to color, I vary the color of the image sent to the TV by using my PC's video card controls: the hue control, which rotates all the color around, and the digital vibrance control, which shifts the colors to more saturated ones, or to less saturated ones, even black and white. Notice how the defects appear and disapear depending on the color of the source. To test your own TV, (and to demonstrate to a service tech), I have made a Blu-Ray you can download: It is available as an ISO burnable to DVD, a 1080p AVCHD DVD, playable in a Blu-Ray player. The Blu-Ray will show even crazier manifestations of the defect, if you have a defective TV. It shows just how extremely crazy things can get with just the right content. Stuff I see all the time. The 419MB AVCHD DVD ISO file is available here: https://www.onlinefilefolder.com/3savmOPw6gdBGe Mirror here, but the 1st link should be the fastest: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1842312/2011%20Mits%20DLP%20Test.iso (both may be very slow, but should not be) After downloading the ISO, Windows Vista/7 users can burn it to DVD with: Right-Click the file > Send To > DVD Everyone else, (well, except Mac users), I recommend freeware "ISO Recorder": http://isorecorder.alexfeinman.com/isorecorder.htm