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 09/14/2007 09:25:27 AM · #1
Has anybody been into Best Buy recently? I was in there buying a monitor about a month ago and they seem to have a standard set of pictures to show them off.

These things were awful. I'm serious. Not even close to good. On DPC they would be lucky to score a four due to huge problems with chromatic aberration, oversharpening, pixelation from saturation, and almost every other conceivable problem.

Has anybody noticed this?

I have been playing with the idea of walking up to the manager, telling him he's trying to sell monitors with crap, bring a dozen shots on a flash drive, load them up, and then sell them to him. The problem is it's probably a corporate thing and not a local thing and I'd have to wade through a sea of suits.

Maybe someone else has more drive than me and should go do it.
 09/14/2007 09:38:26 AM · #2
I used to work at the one on the east side of Madison, WI. I'm convinced that Best Buy doesn't care about how they show their products because people will buy them anyways. They usually have their monitors hooked up to a splitter box so the image shown is very degraded and poor. Also, it looks like very badly compressed flash video. I agree that this is no way to show off a monitor. They do the same with televisions... HD looks so much better than what they show in the store... screens are never calibrated either, so they all look different.
 09/14/2007 09:42:41 AM · #3
Maybe I could sell them a set of shots like this?


09/14/2007 12:33:58 PM · #4
Heh. Nothing can kill a thread quite like a cow poo photo. :-P
 09/14/2007 12:45:13 PM · #5
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Heh. Nothing can kill a thread quite like a cow poo photo. :-P


Actually, I think it was your banner that killed the thread.
09/14/2007 12:46:25 PM · #6
Originally posted by vxpra:
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Heh. Nothing can kill a thread quite like a cow poo photo. :-P


Actually, I think it was your banner that killed the thread.

YOu're probably right. :-(
 09/14/2007 12:53:12 PM · #7
Once when I was looking at TVs I asked if I could put my reference disc in for comparison. The manager rudely told me "NO". So they want me to compare uncalibrated TVs with awful, quickly changing video in overlit rooms. This is when it pays to go to a small retailer who will work with you.
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