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No matter which variable I adjusted, either by itself or with others, the system wouldn't recognize my gestures outside of the tutorial software. I also tried adjusting the sensitivity of the Webcam that acts as the gesture sensor. I went through the tutorial, which outlines the basic hand motions, and I also tried gesturing at various speeds, at different distances from the screen, and under different lighting conditions. That's a myopically limited selection of programs, but it almost doesn't matter, since gestures don't seem to register at all.
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Fraught with sensitivity issues and with limited application integration, the gesture controls are essentially unusable.Ī brief tutorial for the gesture control reveals that they are only meant to work in only four programs on the system: Internet Explorer, Windows Media Center, the Media Gallery, and PowerDVD. Gesture control is the other highlight feature of this system, and you're better off considering that an experiment than a legitimate means of controlling the computer. Between that and the chopped down display resolution, the trade offs that come with the X-Realty chip aren't worth the added cost. Based on our testing, the chip helped the color and sharpness is some cases, but resulted in muddled, imperfect color rendering in others.
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You might not expect a PC to have the same video quality as one of the best TVs on the market, but if Sony is going to build the cost of the X-Reality chip into this system, as opposed to, say, a dedicated graphics chip, you would expect the TV chip to provide a net overall benefit.
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We also saw that the L-Series was cutting off the resolution around the edge of the screen, meaning the image was not resolving all full 1,920x1,080 pixels. The extra sharpness revealed itself on the test pattern screen, where you can see a thin white border around each black line. This effect was not apparent on the other screens. This was apparent on CNN where, on the L-Series, one talking head appeared to be wearing a heavy dose of tanner. We also saw that it muddled the contouring of certain color tones. In can help make the image appear more distinct in some cases, but it can also add an overly done "green screen" affect, making objects appear to pop out from the background in a way that appears unnatural. The L-Series also employs a rather aggressive boost to image sharpness. Colors on the screen appeared a bit more vibrant than those on the Lenovo system, but next to the calibrated Panasonic TV the Sony's image appeared unnaturally bright. We discovered a few things about the Sony system during this testing. With the help of David Katzmaier, another CNET TV reviewer, I set the Sony system up side-by-side with the 24-inch Lenovo IdeaCentre B520, and the 55-inch Panasonic TC-P55ST50 for reference, and compared the quality on each with a DirectTV signal and a pattern signal generator. But on the Sony system, the X-Reality chip does affect that external signal, which is how Sony is hoping its TV tech will entice shoppers looking for an all-in-one for home entertainment. In that case the display on an all-in-one works like a standalone monitor, and the graphics card does not come into play with regard to image quality. Next to the Asus ET2700I and its GeForce GT 540M video chip, TV reviewer Ty Pendlebury and I noticed perhaps more vibrant colors on the Sony, but Keyboard Cat on YouTube and "Ghostbusters" on Netflix both looked the same between the two systems in terms of pixelation and overall sharpness.īecause the L-Series has a dedicated HDMI input, though, the X-Reality chip also comes into play when you connect an outside video source. In a sea of low-resolution YouTube and NetFlix videos such a chip sounds great, but the resulting quality boost in Windows-based video isn't dramatically better than what you get with a decent dedicated graphics card. The Bravia chip in the L-Series is called the X-Reality chip, and its primary function is to amp up the image quality of overly compressed or pixelated video content.