Friday, January 13, 2006
A Harbinger of Things to Come: Westinghouse's LVM-37W1 LCD TV
Posted by Felix Torres in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
OSD Settings
Figure 6: Video settings menu.
This can be a time sink if you’re a perfectionist; the display has very fine-grained settings for most of the adjustments:
• Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, and Backlight all range from 0 to100, for 100 million possible settings.
• Hue ranges from (-45) to (+45) and Sharpness from 0 to14.
• There are three color temperature settings; the factory default is Color 3, which most folks find a bit too cold; Color 2 is apparently closest to the ideal 6500 degree color temperature.
All in all, the OSD allows for over 135 billion discrete settings.
Nonetheless, some people still can’t find a configuration they like. Caveat emptor.
Figure 7: VGA port settings menu.
The PC settings icon is only available when the VGA input is selected.
Again, very fine-grained settings let you control size and image position.
Figure 8: Audio settings menu.
• Standard audio settings here; nothing fancy, and they’re strictly Stereo.
• The settings are global: no individual input port memory here.
• Number 6, SPEAKER, is for choosing whether to use the amplified output feeding the attached speakers (or alternate speakers connected to the standard speaker jacks) or the lineout stereo.
Figure 9: Picture-in-picture settings menu.
Very flexible PIP function; three modes, three sizes, custom positioning…
Figure 11: Available PIP combos.
• VGA and the two component video sources must share video hardware; they can’t be combined with each other, only the digital or legacy sources.
• The same applies to composite and S-video.
• However, the two digital sources CAN be combined so they obviously have independent video hardware.
• Clearly, this is a Digital display first and foremost.
Figure 12: General settings menu.
• The menu can be positioned pretty much anywhere on-screen; the default is upper left-hand corner
• You can define how long the menu stays up once invoked
• You can choose the menu language; English, Spanish, French, and (presumably) Chinese
• DPMS can be enabled on a per-port basis
