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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeyGrass" data-source="post: 103703" data-attributes="member: 3108">Well SYT, you've hit the proverbial nail square on the head.  Not only do I do home theater and HDTV setups and installs, I'm actually a musician, audio engineer and studio owner by trade.  The home theater side sort of grew out of my studio and audio engineering business.  I quite literally make my living tweaking obscure setting and tuning gear and audio/video equipment.  You could not be more correct about the MP3 thing, lol!!!  The only time I can even stand to listen to one is in the car, where audio fidelity is questionable and you can't really tell the difference.  Yes, I own a Vinyl rig that is more valuable than car I drive. :/  If not for my investment in my studio and vinyl, I'd probably have several more tables...  as it stands now, the studio takes up half the upstairs of my house, and the vinyl rig takes up most of the living room.  I have a very understanding wife!!  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I am constantly amazed at how people have their TV's set up... most of them look like over-saturated cartoons!!  It's amazing, some folks will pay tens of thousands of dollars for the "latest and greatest" gear and then freak out at the thought of spending a couple hundred to tune and calibrate, its like pulling teeth.  I guess they figure since they paid top dollar for "the best" that is should work perfectly, right out of the box with no adjustments required.  Some people are blown away with a properly calibrated HDTV.  Others, either don't notice, don't care, or actually prefer oversaturated colors and unnatural contrast levels.  It does take some getting used too, if you have been living with a TV on retail or "attract" mode.Firepower?  And you haven't taken a baseball bat to it yet?  I have a very strong love/hate relationship with FP.  Mostly, I love to hate it!Brakel - Yes, there was an improvement, (I think it was 2.14) where suddenly, most of the tables became playable.  I was about to give up on the game completely at that point.  Further evidence that the primary issue is not a monitor/response time/processing issue on the user's end of things.  I have no doubt that low-end HDTV's with bad response rates and all the retail "enhancements" cranked up compound the problem, however.Thank you gentlemen for the stimulating convo.  I will leave this issue now, as I feel like I have presented my points and anything further just isn't fair to that poor, dead, equine over in the corner.  Hopefully FS gets the message, and this gets addressed is the super-mega-ermegerd-PS3 patch.</blockquote>

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