confirmed when we watched the movie excerpts. For example, the shot when the trap door to the sewers is opened in Blade II showed a slight lack of contrast and difficulty in rendering the different shades of gray. Also, some sparkling was visible here and there...

• -Sanyo PLV-Z2: Objective Tests With Factory Settings
• -Toshiba TDP MT 200: Objective Tests With Factory Settings

cameras. The black level was too high and movies like Star Wars suffered as a result. Video noise, unfortunately, was quite perceptible, and too much sparkling was visible in the image. That's less bothersome when watching TV, since the original signal isn't...

• -Dell W2600: But

Willis, very bright ones from the arena sequences in Gladiator, and ones with very bright colors from Monsters, Inc. With all of them, the performance was only average. Image sharpness was lacking, and sparkling was fairly visible, both via DVI and YUV. (Choose...

• -High Standards

Light leaked into the black bands above and below the movie, which has a negative effect on the visible contrast. The monitor is fast enough so that latency doesn't creep in too much, but video noise was very visible on color masses and on shading. The sparkling...

• -Overshoot

called "Smoothscreen," is built into the PTAX-100. It limits the "screen-door effect" you can see if you sit too near the screen. The system works very well. No trace of a grid was visible with a 2.5-meter (8-foot) image base at 3.5 meters (11.5 ft.) In the...