04-24-2011, 10:18 PM
silvarios wrote:
Except that the picture will still look like crap. The TV with the best torch mode will look the best and then you get it home and wonder why you bought this model when all the reviews said another model was better. I've seen TVs that I know were superb, but the retailer had set up with bad lighting, a bad feed, and the stupid torch mode enabled.
I hear what you're saying, and you're absolutely right that the "blast" mode they set screens to in showrooms is garbage... but I still trust my eyes a lot more than I trust any random reviewer--with the caveat that I get to grab the remotes and turn the brightness down while I'm doing my comparisons. There's no way I'd buy something that (a) expensive and (b) central in the home without at least looking at it in person.