After reading hundreds of post about improving the overall quality of a CRT RPTV and emailing techs in different fields pertaining to HDTV,I have come to the conclusion that there are so many factors involved that it is some times hit and miss.Type of viewing source,where the signal originates-OTA-Cable-Satellite,etc.How the signal is processed,type of tuner,etc.
One thing that did impress me about the CRT RPTV though was the quality of the picture,depth of black and the transition to colors,sharpness of the images and so on.Though the technology is ancient and not up to the "new and improved" my eyes are still impressed.
After my winter project(2004-2005) of increasing the size of the living/family room from 16x18 to 16x32 and having done my own plans with my finished product in mind,and saying that I would not listen to wife,contractor friends,brother,kids or anyone else I stummbled-probably because I was getting tired,cold and was frustrated that I was running behind my own schedule and was outside driving nails looking at the warm/having fun inside family.I wanted to finish.Time for the LVL beams to go in,friends come by to help(contactors friends) everything is ready and it goes with out a hitch(so I think)having some cold brews and some pizza saying I should now be done in just a few days.Then the future planning starts-Todd a good friend and great builder(sometimes I think he invented the nail)starts talking about adding a deck in the spring and that I should have access--french doors--no way--wife thinks good idea--some of Todds crew,good idea--Todd,good idea.Okay lets put the door in-against my best wishes,log story short(LOL)I have glare on my RPTV,and I don't mean a slight refelection I can give you tag numbers on cars in the drive.Everyone says it is not that bad and it may not be but the idea of extending the room was for more space and a place to move the TV as to be less conspicuous.Well after trying different things,solar tint-crap,room darking blinds-have to open and close,good remote blinds for the doors are 400-700 per.Then there was the suggestion for Gregg Loewens and from Chuck Williams(who though I have not met them)seem to be very on the ball people.to remove the protective screen---I have pondered this thought for many months and while I have 4 childern 16-14-7-6,and they are very responsible I still hear those dreaded words too often "It was an accident".Well I got a sample piece from a protective screen manufactor(non glare) and for the price of install and what the material was,Lucite CP,I decided to do my own search,well I have found what I need,I hope,it is the same material that is used on LCD screens in the fighter jets (one thing good about living in the Nations capital with all the defense contractors).It has a 94% light transfer(Lucite CP only has 85%-glass is 88%) and it cut glare to 2% of total light reflectance.Going to get it now and do it install this afternoon(if someone doesn't flip thier car over on the beltway)before and after pic coming if anyone wants to see the results or wake up from reading this
One thing that did impress me about the CRT RPTV though was the quality of the picture,depth of black and the transition to colors,sharpness of the images and so on.Though the technology is ancient and not up to the "new and improved" my eyes are still impressed.
After my winter project(2004-2005) of increasing the size of the living/family room from 16x18 to 16x32 and having done my own plans with my finished product in mind,and saying that I would not listen to wife,contractor friends,brother,kids or anyone else I stummbled-probably because I was getting tired,cold and was frustrated that I was running behind my own schedule and was outside driving nails looking at the warm/having fun inside family.I wanted to finish.Time for the LVL beams to go in,friends come by to help(contactors friends) everything is ready and it goes with out a hitch(so I think)having some cold brews and some pizza saying I should now be done in just a few days.Then the future planning starts-Todd a good friend and great builder(sometimes I think he invented the nail)starts talking about adding a deck in the spring and that I should have access--french doors--no way--wife thinks good idea--some of Todds crew,good idea--Todd,good idea.Okay lets put the door in-against my best wishes,log story short(LOL)I have glare on my RPTV,and I don't mean a slight refelection I can give you tag numbers on cars in the drive.Everyone says it is not that bad and it may not be but the idea of extending the room was for more space and a place to move the TV as to be less conspicuous.Well after trying different things,solar tint-crap,room darking blinds-have to open and close,good remote blinds for the doors are 400-700 per.Then there was the suggestion for Gregg Loewens and from Chuck Williams(who though I have not met them)seem to be very on the ball people.to remove the protective screen---I have pondered this thought for many months and while I have 4 childern 16-14-7-6,and they are very responsible I still hear those dreaded words too often "It was an accident".Well I got a sample piece from a protective screen manufactor(non glare) and for the price of install and what the material was,Lucite CP,I decided to do my own search,well I have found what I need,I hope,it is the same material that is used on LCD screens in the fighter jets (one thing good about living in the Nations capital with all the defense contractors).It has a 94% light transfer(Lucite CP only has 85%-glass is 88%) and it cut glare to 2% of total light reflectance.Going to get it now and do it install this afternoon(if someone doesn't flip thier car over on the beltway)before and after pic coming if anyone wants to see the results or wake up from reading this