An HDTV’s default picture settings almost never have anything to do with accurate and faithful image reproduction and typically have everything to do with grabbing a shopper’s attention among the crowded shelves of an electronics superstore. Those default picture presets are useful for providing the brightest picture possible when room lighting is uncontrollable, but critical HDTV viewing in a darkened environment, where the eye is most sensitive, requires a custom configuration or a picture preset that delivers an image closest to what the director envisioned in the edit room. The 47-inch ViewSonic N4785p ($1,999 list) is a 1080p LCD HDTV that offers an uncontrollably bright picture and few ways to improve upon its unrealistic and often disappointing image quality.

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