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In Reply to: Just bought our first wide-screen LCD TV--and we hate it posted by bigi on September 10, 2005 at 02:46:04:
Quite regularly in the press here (Northern California) and presumeably everywhere there have been articles that a large price drop on HD TVs is going to happen this Fall. This is not the usual highly speculative rumor stuff, but the articles are very detailed and explicit about what is happening now and what is going to happen and why it is going to happen.You are not happy with your set. Get rid of it if you can. There are just too may possibilities out there to settle for something you aren't completely happy with. Looking at sets in a store can be a crap shoot. I've seen the same set in different stores looking very ordinary and spectacular, depending on? the particular unit? how it was set up? the signal it was fed? I've seen nearly all of the technologies- stores that sell these things are all over the place here- and all can look good or bad. The best pictures I have seen are from very expensive front screen projection units, which require darkened rooms, but for more reasonably priced sets plasma ones by Pioneer and Panasonic seem to consistently have the best pictures. I have seen a number of LCoS sets. Some were spectacular, and some were poor. LCDs tend to lose details in the dark ares, at least the ones I have seen, but the picture can be impressive at first glance.
But, this technology is in a state of flux. It's a little like computers. If you wait for the next upcoming great new thing, you will never but a set. So, the question is the following: Are there enough things you want to see in HD that now is the time to buy? If so, I would recommend waiting a month or two for the rumored big price drop, and then pick from what's available by doing a lot of careful looking, just as you would in buying speakers. Also, as with speakers, an in-home trial period would be nice to have. If the main reason you are getting an HD set is that it seems like a good thing to do, I would just wait a while. Two things are certain: the technology will advance, and the price will drop. That's where I am right now, mainly because there's so little HD programming I can get here in our "isolated" city of Santa Cruz.
My 2 cents worth.
jsm
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- Take it back for one very important additional reason! - jsm 11:55:52 09/10/05 (0)
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