This past weekend I attended the annual Flat-Panel HDTV Shootout held each year by Value Electronics, a small independent retailer in the New York City suburb of Scarsdale. This was the 9th year for the event, one that proprietor Robert Zohn started way back when as a marketing tool, but also out of obvious sheer love for the technology. In recent years it’s grown into quite the industry event. Zohn brings in arguably the most skilled and respected calibrators in the world to tune each of the sets to its absolute optimum image, a team which this year included Kevin Miller of ISFTV and Tweak TV, an ISF charter member who developed the technical program for the Shootout and functions as its lead calibrator; DeWayne “D-Nice” Davis of A/V Fidelity; and David Mackenzie of the U.K. website HDTVtest. The two-day affair was attended by a mix of industry types and press (including the…
