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sound vision

TEST REPORTS

color temperature, Video noise, and a

DeepField Imager option that’s sup-

posed to boost contrast by deepening

black levels, although I didn’t notice

any difference when it was turned on.

A Picture+ menu provides even more

picture tweaks, including a PerfectCol-

or menu with primary and secondary

color adjustments and an Advanced

Picture submenu that includes gamma

presets, high and low color-tempera-

ture settings, and a second set of col-

or-management controls.

The audio options on the Mitsubishi

are nearly as extensive as the video

ones. After setting up the Polk Audio

PSWi225 that Mitsubishi sent — a pro-

cess that involved connecting the TV’s

subwoofer output to the Polk’s wire-

less transmitter and then finding a

spot for the compact sub — I selected

Subwoofer On and the transmitter au-

tomatically paired with the PSWi225. A

level adjustment lets you balance the

sub’s output once you’ve finished cali-

brating the main audio channels.

Both automatic and manual setup

options are available to calibrate the

sound projector for best performance

in your room. With Automatic, you con-

nect a supplied calibration microphone

and place it at head level at your nor-

mal seating position. You then hit the

onscreen Start button, and the TV

emits a series of test tones. Setup

complete! In Manual mode, you first

enter the length of the front and side

walls as well as the distance from the

TV to the seating position. Once that’s

done, you next adjust levels for the

center, left/right front, and left/right

surround channels using either your

trusty ears or a sound-pressure level

meter, and then set beam angles for

the individual channels. Angle adjust-

ments let you compensate for both

off-center TV locations and irregular

wall surfaces. And the beams are ac-

tually depicted onscreen as you move

them — a useful visual reference.

VIDEO PERFORMANCE

With video and audio adjustments out

of the way (mine were done in the set’s

Advanced Picture and Manual sound

projector modes), I was ready to watch

TV. Criterion’s new Blu-ray Disc edition

of director Jacques Tati’s Playtime had

just arrived, so I tossed that in the disc

player. During the film’s opening sec-

tion, where Monsieur Hulot wanders

confusedly in a Paris business district,

the various gray shades of the mod-

ern buildings and the clothing worn

by people passing through them were

well represented on the Mitsubishi’s

screen. Skin tones of the office work-

ers came across as natural, and the

occasional flourish of bright color —

red rose bunches sold by a street ven-

dor, for example — looked rich without

coming across as too vivid.

Playtime’s next section takes place

at night outside an apartment build-

ing where the residents oddly lack cur-

tains or blinds covering their floor-to-

ceiling windows. The Mitsubishi looked

punchy on most of these shots, show-

ing good contrast and shadow detail.

But a few images in this sequence

also revealed the set’s limited shad-

ow depth — when faced with display-

ing really dark shots, the set delivered

a flat picture. Its performance here

was on par with most other LCD TVs

I’ve tested that use a CCFL backlight,

however.

Mitsubishi’s Smooth 120Hz feature

helped to eliminate judder effects

from film-based programs. (Unfortu-

MItsuBIsHI UNISEN LT-46153 LCD HDTV

With the Mitsubishi Unisen LT-

46153’s Natural picture mode

and Low color temperature pre-

sets selected, grayscale tracking

measured ±209° K of the

6,500-K standard from 20 to 100

IRE. Adjustments made to the

high/low red, green, and blue

controls in the Advanced Picture

menu reduced that spread to

144 K from 20 to 100 IRE, but

the beneﬁt here was so slight that

I’m sure most people could live

happily with the picture in

Natural mode.

The set’s color decoder dis-

played red and green pull in

excess of 10% in both the Natural

and Advanced Picture modes.

Outside of a slight level of green

oversaturation, both its primary

and secondary color points mea-

sured close to the SMPTE HD

color speciﬁcation. In both cases,

adjustments made in the

Advanced menu’s PerfectColor

menu helped to correct any

color errors.

With the Mits Unisen set’s

2.2 target gamma selected,

gamma measured closer to 3.0.

Overscan — the amount of pic-

ture area hidden behind the edges

of the TV’s screen — measured

0% for 1080i- and 1080p-format

high-deﬁnition signals with the

Full Native screen format selected,

and 6% for 1080p Standard.

The TV displayed 1080i- and

720p-format test patterns at

full resolution, and a 480i (DVD)

resolution pattern also revealed

full detail via the component-

video input. — A.G.

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Brightness (100-IRE):

Before Calibration 35.3 ftL After Calibration 35.1 ftL

Color Temperature

Before Calibration/ After Calibration

IRE

100

IRE

6,500K

6,463

6,606

6,515

6,394

6,715

6,643

6,666

6,612

6,692

6,672

6,473

6,516

6,345

6,428

6,268

6,360

6,913

6,857

A USB port on the Unisen

LT-46153’s side panel lets

you connect ﬂash media to

view JPEG photo slideshows

or listen to MP3 music. The

TV’s onscreen media player

menu helps you navigate

content stored on USB drives.

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