Flatscreen buyers guide
- Thread starter evince
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Do you want a large one? Do you want HDTV? Does picture quality or price mean more to you?
evince
Truthmatters
fairly large.
Right now we have a 60 inch projection screen that is years old. Its a monster and I dont want one that big. I think you pretty much have to get HDTV now.
When I look at them in the stores they are all hooked up to HDTV and the pictures look pretty much the same (fantastic).
Price is always a big deal to me. The 60 inch we never would have purchased ourselfs becuase we are too cheap. My hubby earned it through an awards program at work a few years back.
What Im looking for is the best performer brand and model wise and good places to buy from. I think Ill probably buy from Cost co or Sams club.
Right now we have a 60 inch projection screen that is years old. Its a monster and I dont want one that big. I think you pretty much have to get HDTV now.
When I look at them in the stores they are all hooked up to HDTV and the pictures look pretty much the same (fantastic).
Price is always a big deal to me. The 60 inch we never would have purchased ourselfs becuase we are too cheap. My hubby earned it through an awards program at work a few years back.
What Im looking for is the best performer brand and model wise and good places to buy from. I think Ill probably buy from Cost co or Sams club.
uscitizen
Villified User
in the stores desh look at them fro angles and see how they do. That seems to be the biggest difference to me. also if they will get them to dispaly an SDTV signal on them. Some of them jag up quite a bit on SDTV resoloution images from DVD's that do not upconvert. Or GASP! even those of us who have a VCR hooked up to our HDTV.
uscitizen
Villified User
Is satellite tv SDTV? Well that depends on your satellite provider, channel and reciever you have. Many channels on satellite are now in HDTV format. But if you have an older reciever you have SDTV format which is Standard Definition TV. Which is something like 420/420 I forget. HDTV is in 2 formats 720p and 1080 i The higher the number the more pixels and sharper definition the picture is. I could go into interlaced, etc....
On the DVD they now have players for a reasonable price that upconvert SDTV resoloutions DVD's to 1080i for hooking up to a 1080 TV with better resoloution and less jaggies.
On the DVD they now have players for a reasonable price that upconvert SDTV resoloutions DVD's to 1080i for hooking up to a 1080 TV with better resoloution and less jaggies.
uscitizen
Villified User
No you do not have to get the new HDTV cable or satellite.
You will just get better looking pictures if you do.
Make sure whatever TV you get has RCA audio and vid inputs and SVIDEO inputs as well as HDMI.
uscitizen
Villified User
Now if I could just recall What some here say about my short posts and volume ....
Unless you buy old stock all TV's sold now are HDTV compatible.
But there are 3 main varaints.
HDTV compatible but displays SDTV resoloution.
720p HDTV.
1080i TDTV.
It isn't that bad. It looks like crap in comparison to HD, but it's supposed to.
The best way to view it is with the gray bars on the side so it doesn't distort the picture.
DigitalDave
Sexy Beast!
I got a 47" 1080p from Sears for $1400. It was off the shelf, but it's great!
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Cancel5
Guest
We LOVE our Samsung! The picture is so clear!
My daughter has a Visio and it is also a very nice picture!
Thorn
Member
We have a Samsung as well; it's terrific. Very sharp, great colors. We also have satellite, so HD comes in really well.
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Cancel5
Guest
It doesn't distort the picture like my friend Mishubishi, but her TV is a couple of years older than mine, too! We had a Hitachi, but it went bad and we traded it for a Samsung and we are, like I said, very happy!