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In Reply to: 32" hdtv monitor posted by Vaughn3D on October 25, 2002 at 09:21:10:
What's yout budget? What sources will you mainly be watching? Will you be watching DVDs on it? If the answer to the last is "yes", is your player progressive scan?I looked at a lot of 32" TVs recently. I liked the Toshibas a lot, as well as the Philips 32PT8419, which has now been replaced by the 32PT8420. The new sets from Zenith are affordable and have built in HD tuners. (However, although they have component inputs, the Zenith HDTVs don't accept progressive scan.)
If you watch a lot of cable or other SD fare, the Philips sets do especially well with SD, unlike the Sonys, whose DRC line doublers tend to make standard def sources look worse.
I wasn't shot with the Samsung.
Features I would consider must-haves on a direct view HDTV would be a 3D digital comb filter, 3:2 pulldown, component inputs, raster compression (sometimes referred to as the "squeeze, used for letterboxed, non-anamorphic DVDs), and ability to turn off scan velocity modulation (SVM, or VSM) from the user menu. I could care less about PIP, but it's almost standard on HDTVs.
AFter looking at 32" sets for months, I ended up buying a Philips 34" widescreen. We almost never watch network TV, our cable viewing is mainly movies, and we watch lots of DVDs.
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