Re: Plasma or LCD? - The TV Thread
The best way to explain it, without having experienced it yet for myself, is that it gives the effect that you're been looking at a hazy, uncleaned window your whole life, and someone came in and cleaned it spotless. If you're looking out on a sunshiny day, you are going to ask yourself how you ever went without it.
It clears up your image. It finds unwanted distortions in your image, and works on it by getting rid of them. It also seems to give your image more contrast, sharpness, and depth. When I say all three things, you have to completely understand that it's not there to crush blacks, give edge-enhancement, or take things out of focus. In fact, another way that projection owners have said was that it's as if you've been watching TV with your projector out of focus your entire life, until you turn on the Darblet.
I'll start linking up reviews and impressions that explain it best, but there are things I can assure you:
- This is not a scam.
- HT enthusiasts and videophiles swear by this product.
- It is not tarnishing of your video quality in any way (assuming you work with proper settings). Like I said, it's like lifting a haze from your window screen.
- It doesn't mess with your calibration settings. Calibrate your TV, then equip this bad boy. It's the best possible way to watch your television.
- The better the source material, the better the Darblet will be taking action on your image. If you're watching something in SD on a small television, not only are you not really getting anything out of it, but it might try and work with distortions that are supposed to be there by nature of SD, and tweak things you don't want tweaked. On Blu-ray films, especially the best of the best, it does wonders.
- Professionals have tried to calibrate their televisions and projectors to what the Darbee does with your picture, and they can't get it without other side-effects (as I said before, like EE ringing or shadow delineation, etc). It's like you've upgraded your television without getting a new one. As one person put it, most people spend upwards to thousands of dollars to get even less than the desired effect that the Darblet gives you for less than $300.
- It has a few simple settings you can use to tweak it, and some people "set it and forget it," while others change it based on the content. You can obviously be safe with one setting, but then there might be some things where you're not taking enough advantage of it. Find your setting(s) that you like, and you'll be set, no pun intended.
- This is the best price you'll get it at before it raises up to $299 in a couple of weeks.
EDIT: Here are some impressions:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/darbeevision-darblet/ (read comments below as well)
BFJ posted some reviews on his first post about this, so read those as well. AVS Forum also has a full thread of impressions here:
The best way to explain it, without having experienced it yet for myself, is that it gives the effect that you're been looking at a hazy, uncleaned window your whole life, and someone came in and cleaned it spotless. If you're looking out on a sunshiny day, you are going to ask yourself how you ever went without it.
It clears up your image. It finds unwanted distortions in your image, and works on it by getting rid of them. It also seems to give your image more contrast, sharpness, and depth. When I say all three things, you have to completely understand that it's not there to crush blacks, give edge-enhancement, or take things out of focus. In fact, another way that projection owners have said was that it's as if you've been watching TV with your projector out of focus your entire life, until you turn on the Darblet.
I'll start linking up reviews and impressions that explain it best, but there are things I can assure you:
- This is not a scam.
- HT enthusiasts and videophiles swear by this product.
- It is not tarnishing of your video quality in any way (assuming you work with proper settings). Like I said, it's like lifting a haze from your window screen.
- It doesn't mess with your calibration settings. Calibrate your TV, then equip this bad boy. It's the best possible way to watch your television.
- The better the source material, the better the Darblet will be taking action on your image. If you're watching something in SD on a small television, not only are you not really getting anything out of it, but it might try and work with distortions that are supposed to be there by nature of SD, and tweak things you don't want tweaked. On Blu-ray films, especially the best of the best, it does wonders.
- Professionals have tried to calibrate their televisions and projectors to what the Darbee does with your picture, and they can't get it without other side-effects (as I said before, like EE ringing or shadow delineation, etc). It's like you've upgraded your television without getting a new one. As one person put it, most people spend upwards to thousands of dollars to get even less than the desired effect that the Darblet gives you for less than $300.
- It has a few simple settings you can use to tweak it, and some people "set it and forget it," while others change it based on the content. You can obviously be safe with one setting, but then there might be some things where you're not taking enough advantage of it. Find your setting(s) that you like, and you'll be set, no pun intended.
- This is the best price you'll get it at before it raises up to $299 in a couple of weeks.
EDIT: Here are some impressions:
http://www.highdefdigest.com/blog/darbeevision-darblet/ (read comments below as well)
BFJ posted some reviews on his first post about this, so read those as well. AVS Forum also has a full thread of impressions here:
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