December 24th, 2007Review of The Hitachi 37 LD9000TA LCD TV
Speaking of LCD TVs, I feel 26 and 32 inchers are too small (hypocrite that I am), and 40 inch and over won’t let you enjoy after you hear their price. A 37-inch screen sort of hits a sweet spot between high-end and entry-level flat panel TVs. As soon as I was hit by this award-winning idea, I hooked up some 37 inch LCDs from vendors, hoping to have some fun – and of route review them for you.
Ah, Hitachi. This Japanese company started off as an electrical repair shop back in 1910, and a century later we can see the progress it’s made. As a TV manufacturer it has a great status… almost any Hitachi I’ve evaluation has got high ratings. But no two models are the identical so I shall adopt a neutral stance and hope this one lives up to the standing Hitachi has imprinted for itself.
Design and Features
An outstanding color contrast is evident as you fix your eyes on the unit. It has an aluminum-colored speaker panel on top of the bottom, which is married to a dense black bezel. No gloss anywhere, just a mild metallic luster on the stand and speaker – which incidentally are similar in their exoskeleton. Points for this, because I hate gloss actually (no offense destined to Samsung!) There are the basic connections on the side, namely S-video and composite types. The main doors are at the back panel, on a step facing downwards.
Relations include an HDMI port, Composite and two part connections, PC input – the whole caboodle. No issues there, you can plug in come again? you want and experience HD in the form of 720p otherwise 1080i. The native resolution is 1366 x 768, and did I mention the screen size is 37 inches?
The contrast ratio is high at 10,000:1, which feels good psychologically. The speakers give out 20W, while the brightness is not stated anywhere. Never mind, I’m going to test it anyway, so all these specifications should come alive shortly.
Performance
I stop it in, put in the DVE disc into our PS3 and switched to HDMI input on the remote. Speaking of the remote, it’s quite nice and well laid out, black being the color of supremacy for the body and buttons, just as in the TV.
Before testing with the DVD, I played an HD original source in the form of some killer game demos and movie trailers that we had. The image was grand. The clearness levels were dizzyingly high. Even motion scenes had few artifacts and other dirt. The backlight level wants to be set to high (at least in our test room) and you get a stunning bright image with insane contrast.
So it was time to see how it does its own scaling. We played our normal 480i DVD through part link, and ran the motion scenes tests, which consists of the famous waving American flag, pigeons flying around etc. Yes, the disc has lots of fabric to check out.
The image was good here too. Not as good as HD sources (duh) but it handled better than most other brands. Sharpness and lucidity is the USP of this product, but other factors such as answer times, contrast and brightness were great as well. The gods of lucidity will be happy by means of this offering, but I’m not sacrificing the TV just yet.
We put in Star Wars III and sat back and watched the full movie, enjoying every bit. There was one fault that came up once in a as, mainly in huge open scenes, the scenery type. You conjecture it: noise. Noise was spotted infrequently, but that’s something I have seen inside every TV till date.
Those of you who are appearing for a good TV can shell out Rs 79,900 and buy this one. Price-wise it may seem to be on the expensive side, but that’s justified by the picture superiority. Coupled with a good source and surround sound system, you have a tidy HT setup.
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