I still tend to drive the contrast too high, but lately I'm starting to back them off..
On both the Hitachi or the Samsungs, in my sig, if the contrast is set to the same level of my Samsung LCD from a couple years ago, I get effects like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...lorblowout.jpg
On the Samsung, if I increase the G2 on the flyback, I can get very good contrast without ANY of that blowing out of the color, but then I get this nasty effect on black screens:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...n/IMG_0510.jpg
So yea, tired CRT.. But the contrast I have right now is pretty decent enough anyway, it's still as bright as my Apple 27" LED Cinema display, which is pretty bright as it is, so I'm ok with it.
It just takes some getting used to, when I grew up with these TV's that had all these contrast settings cranked.. Now I know why my grandfather hated it when I cranked the contrast on his TV's.
