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For about 1/2 the price (or less) of a comparably-sized (34") plasma or LCD, I thought that the Toshiba and other brands looked pretty good in true HDTV mode. I don't really require thinness, as it is going in a corner. On top of all this, the salesman told me that plasmas tend to go out after a couple of years here in Denver, as my house is +7000' elevation.Truth be told, I liked the LCD the best, but for an extra $1500, the main advantage was only the markedly better picture from WAY off axis.
My main impression from my first day of HDTV shopping was that the projection TVs are about as user friendly as my 2 channel setup where only one person truely has the sweet spot.
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I wanted a Samsung DLP so bad after first seeing one. But that changed after reading AVSforums and spending more time in many different stores watching them. Plasma looked nice except for the price, the heat, the fan noise. LCD looked stunning, especially the SHARPS until I came across one with a stuck pixel. They don't replace your set for just one stuck pixel but let me tell you how distracting it was to see this greenish dot stuck on in the picture all the time. YUCH
I absolutly did not want to buy another SONY, any SONY products, their cable box's SUCK-TRASH-CRAP-JUNK! I already had 2 XBR's in the past and one is trashed.
I bought the 34XBR910. The picture is that good.
Now DLP, Plasma, LCD look stunning in the showrooms using their special signal. Just have the salesman hookup the same feed they give the 910 and you'll know why I bought the SONY.GTF
It's rather unfortunate, but plasmas tend to buzz when you get them to an altitude of 6000 - 6500 feet above sea level.You might want to look at a DLP set. They are priced slightly higher than LCD, but have better blacks and better off-axis viewing (about equal to CRT).
A CRT display will get you better blacks than either DLP or LCD, but you are subject to hot spotting and convergence issues.
The ONLY advantage for pixed pixel plasma is the flat screen. They start to go right away, particularly if not immediately ISF calibrated. After a year or two you are left with a dim picture for your many $$$ spent.Also, I'm on my second RPTV; the first was analog and the new one is digital. I have not had a problem with either concerning viewers not directly on axis.
Every display you purchase is incorrectly calibrated when new -- not just plasma. They will all start to go right away if you leave them in the manufacturer's torch mode . When properly set up, plasma will offer you 30,000 hours of viewing until the phosphors reach their half-life. By the way, that's the same amount of time as a CRT display.No other display technology can give you that looking through a window/3d effect that plasma technology can. And no other display technology offers the quality of off-axis viewing like a plasma display. A trip to even Best Buy or Circuit City will prove this to the eyes of the most anti-plasma crowd. If they're honest.
The truth about plasma displays:
That's a great link that I've been using for a few days now. I bought a relatively inexpensive Akai pdp at Costco, not anywhere near sota of course, but pretty nice, enough for my family's level of interest, and returnable if I ever change my mind about it or anything goes wrong. I found the "steaming rat" comments on adjustment very interesting, as the default modes all have fairly high contrast and/or brightness levels. The customer service guy said the set should work best at "50" - the midpoint. I'm still fiddling with it. I haven't bought one of those AVE discs yet because the numbers people have reported from using them have seemd to have high contrast or brightness. Got any pointers?Lastly, do you have any ideas on low to medium priced good quality players that have a mild zoom feature - just enough to fill the screen with a 235:1 dvd but not more? My old Toshiba does just that but it isn't progressive scan (I don't think).
Regards,
Paul
Click on the link. When you get there, click on the Search function at the top of the screen. Just type zoom for the keyword and specify the DVD Players forum in the Search Options: Search Forum... section below that.
The first HDTVs I saw (in 1997 or 1998, as I recall) were CRTs... and to this day, they were the absolute best I've ever seen. You could creep up on them and, from about 6-12 inches away, not see any pixels, lines, etc. It seriously looked as though you were looking at a photograph. Absolutely phenomenal pictures.Mind you, these were prototypes that were meant for the professional market, but just to know that the technology existed for image quality that amazing was a revelation. We're talking about quality so good that, in an extreme wide crowd shot, you could read the t-shirts of the audience members... When I finally got the chance to see consumer grade sets, I was sorely disappointed at the lack of picture quality, but I wasn't sure what to expect anyway knowing that these prototype sets were upwards of $50K each despite being only 30-37" diagonally.
CRT technology is not dead...
I bought the 34" Sony XBR 16:9 HDTV set. The plasma screens all buzzed more than I liked. (I'm at 6500'). The 37" Sharp direct view LCD panel was nice but even more expensive than similar sized plasma screens. My 16:9 Sony XBR is the last large CRT that I'll buy and I'm hoping that plasmas, LCD, or some other direct view thin-screen technology will be more reasonably priced in a few years.... and better suited to our higher elevation here in Colorado. I also had a quick look at various RPTV technologies and none of them were very impressive to me. Sure, I could have gotten a much larger screen at the same price but the clarity, sharpness, color, and brightness didn't even come close to the direct view CRT, not to mention off-axis viewing. I'm very pleased with my decision for now as we wait for the next generation of thin-screen technology to evolve.
Abe, I just purchased the 34 Sony widescreen hdtv 510 model. I'm having difficulty with the hook up to my comcast digital cable box, (not high def yet)vcr, dvd, such that I can use the split screen mode for cable channels. Is this possible to do?
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