A few months back, I had gone over to a friends place in Delhi. He is a photography buff as well and, he asked me to get a few images on a USB stick. I had just got back from Tadoba. So I promptly dumped a bunch of straight out of the camera jpegs into a flash drive and, went over to his place.
He plugged in the flash drive to his Sony 40 inch TV and ran a slideshow. My jaw just dropped at what I saw. The big screen makes such a huge difference that, you have to see it, to believe it.
The pictures, pretty much jumped out of the screen and, it seemed to me that I was back in the “transparency days” ! The Sony “X” series can also be colour calibrated and used as an external monitor as well. I am not saying that this is like an Eizo graphics monitor but, it is a 10 bit panel and the TV runs a customised embedded linux operating system.
You could try it out at any of the Sony showrooms I would think. So go on try it, I would interested to hear if it impressed you !
…. I have calibrated it ! you will be stunned with what you can do with it. Try putting all the nice images on hdd of PS3 and use it to do a slideshow …. this is pure bliss ! You need ( let me change that to WANT) a PS3 too !!!