reliable source is some thing relative.when i was in a multi brand store where they had a lot of lCD's hanging and in one particular section they had all the high end 42" from diff manufacturers including the Sony x series.when me and my friend compared the x series with another 42" next to it we found that the pic was more detailed, better natural colors ,better motion and the skin tone looked better in the other brand in spite of me and my friend trying to adjust the x series like for 20 mins it was very clear to our eyes that the x series lacked so much detail, but when we called the store guy he said Sony looks better and refused accept that the other brand showed much more clear and detailed image.The guy even said that Sony employees make their panel in samsung factory and they don't allow samsung employees to make it, we just laughed and left.
well sony develops their lcds with samsung,yes its true that sony uses some proprietary tech in the lcds panels,like the backlight and color filters.so its true that samsung officials have no right to have a look at what sony is doing and vice versa,since they own 49% in the S lcd.even AU optronics the supplier for both sony and samsung doesn't share the details of what each other ordered,sony and samsung request the panels with their specifications such as backlight ,color filters.
The so called BE thing that Sony has in its tv has always only disappointed me in spite me trying to play around with the setting I found nothing really worthy about it or never felt it really improved the pic in any way.A real videophile who calibrates never depends on these additional features from these so called engines advertised by many manufactures. as far as i know Toshiba, Samsung and Philips ate major chip manufacturers so they definitely have the edge in manufacturing video chips.
even amazing pro LCD maker such as barco only stick with the real hardware specs and technologies and not in some fake pic enhancing Engine algorithm which is claimed to be done using a chip whose spec sheet is not even publicly available.
well without BE or DNIE or Viera ENGINE or AQUAS engine lcd tvs will be nothing more then big lcd monitors
while the majority of the civilized people appreciates the newer image processing developments,but there are some who are just plain ignorant,filled with hate,the same people fail to understand that what made the pioneer kuro a great product was not the contrast levels alone but its also because of the realy good image processing.
for starters i feel Sony is way behind in terms of panel cause they still use 10 bit panel while many manufacturers are using 17 bit panels. Its just simple math, more the panel bit more colors it can support and more color variance it can show.
well samsung/sony S lcd,AU optronics,CMO,CPT,LG,sharp etc NONE make panels higher then 10bit natively.only for pro lcd monitors is where they use any higher bit rate
the HP Dream Color monitor and certain displays from NEC are classic examples of how certain companies are really bringing cutting edge tech to the consumers and not just bringing some antique hardware with a fake imaginary image engine.
what as a monitor got to do with tv thread.
nec is a good the company which used to sell monitors with licenced sony trinitron picture tubes.
A big company like Sony exploiting people with their brand name and minting money and not even providing some decent hardware is whats really bothering me.having said that lemme tell you the one product i really felt were Sony delivered was their 24" crt monitor which was very good.
well i am glad companies like sony are there.they just piss some people off.
can't realy say about ur observations or whatever of the X450A ,for the obvious reasons.
