Tech Review - Soyo Graphite Series 22" LCD HDTV

Tech Review - Soyo Graphite Series 22" LCD HDTV Hello again I’m Rodney Reynolds and welcome to another video review. Today, I’m looking at the Soyo Graphite 22 inch LCD high definition TV. What’s included is a user manual, a full featured roller control, two triple A batteries and the power cord. Let me first cover the screen specifications. This LCD high definition TV is 22 inches wide the aspect ratio is 16 to 10. Comes with a 3D com filter, it has a resolution of 16 AD by 1050 and capable of a four AVIP720 IP or 10 ADI. The contrast ratio is 1000 to 1, the horizontal viewing angle is 100 to 70 degrees and the vertical viewing angle is 160 degrees. The response time is 2 mili seconds, the brightness is 300 minutes. It has 16.7 million colors an NTSC80SC and it consumes a maximum of 61 watts. So what’s HD TV? Simply put it’s a high definition technology that’s came pull of delivering a much clearer picture and better audio that you current analogue broadcast. This time telegram shows the standard MTSC or power 480 lines in comparison to HD 720 and 1080 lines. High definition TV also carries with the six speaker audio as suppose to two speaker stereo audio. There are two common HDTV options, plasma and LCD. Plasma has a bit around a little longer than LCD so it’s a little bit more mature. Plasma screens use a phosphor colliding like two TV’s so they produce more true to life colors and has a better viewing angle. The disadvantage to plasma is burning their fairly heavy and can be very expensive. Being a gamer I personally ruled them out because of burning and go with the liquid crystal display. LCD is now produced excellent color have great viewing angles or light weight and much more affordable. There are a few important things to remember before selecting a high definition TV. First, decide on the size, S-power HDTV’s around 22 inches are excellent for small rooms but for a home entertainment set up go with a high definition TV that’s 42 inches for a larger. Second, the display resolution should be at 720 p or 10 API but preferably 10 ABP. The P stands for progressive scan and the I stand for interlace scan. Progressive scan and display is stored or transmits moving images so all the lines on each frame are drawn sequentially. Interlace scan is where the odd lines then even lines are drown alternatively. Progressive scanning is much better because you don’t get the interline twitter effect. This high definition TV has a maximum resolution of a 10 ADI. Third there response time should be at least 8 milliseconds preferably 4 milliseconds or better. This is to avoid ghosting or motion blur. Those things happen, when the pixels creating the image takes two long to switch on and off creating a blurred or distorted effect. This is most apparent during intense motion but thankfully most of do displays don’t have this problem. This high definition TV has response time up to milliseconds. Fourth be sure to display as bright enough. I’ve recommend and displayed that’s 300 nits but preferably 450 nits or better. This will result in a much clearer overall image and more true to life color. This high definition TV has a brightness of 300 nits. Fifth, make sure the contrast for each show is at least 500 to 1 but the hire the better and by the way contrast ratio is the ratio of illuminants of the brightest color to the darkest color. Most of the displays are capable of 5000 to 1 or better. This high definition TV has a contrast ratio of 1000 to 1. Six, the viewing angle is important and should be at least 160 degrees. This high definition TV has a viewing angle of 170 degrees. Finely give a display that has enough connections for your set up. I’ve recommended at least two inch TMI connections, S video, component video and the VGA or DVI connection comes if handy if you want to hook it up to a computer as well as audio connections. But these really depends on the audio video of hardware you currently have or a planning to hook up. Also the new HTMI standard is 1.3 and the superior 3D older 1.1 standard because it increases the data caring bandwidth from 165 megahertz or 4.95 gigabytes per second to 340 megahertz or 10.2 gigabytes per second. This extra bandwidth will result in better picture and sound. Now let’s have a close to look at t his high definition TV at the font are two 10 watts speakers and in the center is a blue LAD. This LAD is blue and one of the displays is off and the LAD turns off when the display is turned on. This is great because having LAD’s on while watching TV or movies is very distracting. At the top are the function keys, tunnel up and down volume increase or decrease, video source, menu and the power button. At the back of the display there are lots of ventilation holes a very convenient handle, the mail number, serial number and other information also note that the stand can be removed so it can be mounted on the wall using an optional visa mount. Here’s the 3.5 millimeter PC audio input, VGA port, composite video and audio, S video, HTMI and the cable and hand connection and here’s where the power cord gets connected. The menu case will bring up the onscreen menu which enables to user to adjust the picture quality and you’ve got a couple of molds here personal, standard, dynamic, soft. You could adjust the contrast, brightness, sharpness, tint and color. There are audio options and there are a number of sign molds personal standard music, movie and you that could adjust base, treble, balance as well as the audio channel. Next is the time set up where you can adjust the sleep timer and this will turn off the display in so many minutes all the way from 15 to 240? You can also adjust the time zone and you can turn the daylight savings time on or off. There are also three languages to choose from English, French or Spanish, you can turn transparency on or off, the color modes are in normal, warm, cool. You’ve got a zoom mode, you can restore defaults and you can turn the arrow power on or off. This displayed can also be locked by entering a password. When the cable TV antenna is hooked up you’ve got a choice between air and cable TV. You can do all of those scan there’s favorites, you can show on high different channels, if your channel number and you can also label the channels. I personally have a 42 inch LCD high definition TV which I find in an excellent size for watching TV, movies and gaming and my particular room. As you can see to the right of the 22 inches obviously much smaller than the 42 inch but it’s really meant 4 different room size. Like a bedroom or dorm. That may power off the LCD and then on again so you can get some idea how long it takes to power on. Some LCD TV take a consider amount of time to power up and then detect the signal. This one is not too bad. I have to hook up to Roger’s high definition TV and watching TV movie network as you can see the picture quality is very good even with the default calibration. If you are in the market for a smaller LCD high definition TV and you want to have a really good picture quality but it has to be affordable then I would strongly recommend you check this product out. Over all it really delivers exceptional quality when it’s hooked up to a high definition source might really only great with this product is it comes with one HTMI connection. That’s simply not enough but over all it’s a great product. Until next time, take care.