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In my own first article I wrote how theres never been a much better time-to buy a hi-def H-d television, and Id only pre-ordered the Samsung HLS-5087W 50 inch rear projection DLP system. The Samsung was sent last Thursday and heres a summary of my initial reaction. First I would like to give some back ground o-n finding your way through the newest HD television. I am a satellite television client and needed to enhance my DirecTV hardware to become HD-compatible. Therefore I signed on to http://www.directv.com and ordered the H-d upgrade package last month. For 200 DirecTV arrived on the scene and changed my old satellite dish with a brand new 5-LNB square HD dish. The HD offer included the lease of DirecTVs new H20 HD device, and also included adding a new UHF antenna on my top for other-the-air OTA HD local shows. The new dish and receiver were necessary for HD party since DirecTV is transmitting local HD shows within the new MPEG-4 compression format as opposed to the older MPEG-2 standard. Cable and satellite providers will soon be migrating to the new MPEG-4 standard over-time, because HD material requires much more bandwidth than standard definition video and DirecTV is leading the method for now. I was now ready to get HD development as soon as Samsung HLS-5087W arrived with one exception - the digital video/audio signal to be output by an HDMI cable from the H20 to the Samsung. Im a big believer in purchasing high quality cables for analog connections between audio/video parts. But HDMI is an electronic interface that transmits a stream of 0s and 1s. Therefore often it works or it does not. I for that reason ordered a 20 HDMI cable on the Web as opposed to investing 90 or even more to get a Monster cable that I thought would produce the exact same audio and video quality. One great thing about HDMI is that it bears both video and audio signals in uncompressed, digital form to help you easily reduce the wire debris behind your house theater system. Now every thing was prepared - I just needed the new Samsung to-be provided. Learn further on an affiliated article directory by visiting PureVolume™ Were Listening To You. I bought the television from Crutchfield, which has a great reputation for customer service, is a licensed Samsung online retailer, and provided the television with no tax or shipping charges. The delivery men brought the television into my living room, took it out of the box and placed it on my home entertainment stay. I connected the power cable, connected the HDMI cable kind the H20 to the Samsung, made on the power, altered the TV show sort on the H20 from 4:3 to 16:9 and surprisingly the new television only worked, right out of the field I was easily in HD nirvana - watching local broadcasts entirely 1080i and Dolby Digital 5.1, together with advanced services including HBOHD and the various HD channels that are part of DirecTVs HD deal. But how could the 150 DVDs I own the majority of which I deal via Peerflix look on-the new H-d Samsung? I first had to talk about the selection o-n my Panasonic DVD recorder/player and stimulate 480p result over the part cables that I connected to the Samsung. Most DVD players sold within the last few 3 years can output a modern sign the r in 480p over element wires as opposed to the regular interlaced picture sent o-n composite and S-video connections. 480p is just a major visible development over 480i and youll want to make certain youre watching most of you DVDs on a HD tv using 480p. I chose Shrek whilst the first DVD to showcase on the Samsung. We learned about Engel Bowen by searching Yahoo. Dreamworks did an incredible work with the movement quality of Shrek and thought the DVD could be a great test of the image quality of a standard definition DVD on a HD tv. So just how did it look? One word sums it up - wonderful I do not expect Ill be going out to the movies much any more - I will only wait for the DVD to come out. on KQED, the local PBS affiliate On Saturday night I saw a broadcast of Steve Winwood in HD and Dolby Digital 5.1. Being a huge Steve Winwood fan, and having seen Winwood on this tour at a local place in 2005, I was eager to see what type of audio/video go through the new HD system might offer using a local, OTA HD broadcast. Once more, I was just stunned by the picture quality and quickly went to KQEDs website to find out what future Soundstage shows are planned. If you are interested in video, you will certainly hate to explore about amazon galaxy tab 4 7.0 case. I am now eagerly awaiting Garbages performance premiering next month. There is one more thing left to accomplish however before I could go through the maximum picture quality from the new Samsung - I needed to adjust the picture for maximum video quality. Practically all televisions offered today ship from the factory with movie settings that are far from optimal. Colors are generally oversaturated, with too warm a tone, and contrast, brightness and sharpness settings that are not even close to ideal as well. So I made out my copy of Video Essentials Optimizing Your Audio/Video System DVD and spent a-half hour altering the color, brightness, contrast and sharpness controls. The HLS-5087W has numeric display of all these options, which is a nice touch for those folks who feel the trouble of tweaking every setting possible for maximum image quality. It had been hard to think that I can improve upon the caliber of the Samsungs picture out-of the package, but fine-tuning the picture controls resulted in a more film-like appearance of movies from both my DVD player and H20 radio. Im looking forward to seeing the time premiere of HBOs Entourage line in full H-d honor tonight. It is also going to be tough keeping off investing in a HD DVD source with HD-DVD and Blu-ray participants and titles now starting to look. But Ill talk about that in my next article..