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After 6 years in a small waterfront condo, I am finally moving to a bigger home.
I want to get a widescreen HDTV ready rear projection TV.
From 52 to 60 inches would probably do.
I am not opposed to buying used either.
I dont want to commit a bunch of money to something thats changing so fast.
I primarily watch Sports and movies on DVD, and have directv satellite.
Someone advised me to just buy any good deal on a used widescreen that is hi def ready, and wait for DLP and Plasma to be more affordable ?
I would welcome any insight and opinions.
Chris
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Avoid floor models, too-12 hours a day in torch mode for heaven knows how many days is a recipe for disaster.Look at the Hitachi 57S500 or Sony KP57WS510-both have a nice, big 57" picture and will look great once properly calibrated. Either can be had for under $2K, and it's a good time to shop around-next year's models are about to introduced, and there should be some good deals from the major retailers.
Bought mine from Sunshine, a well-rated eBay retailer (I did the "buy it now" option), and I'm very satisfied. With shipping from Brooklyn to Michigan it came out to exactly $2K, and the shipping company even brought the set into the house and plugged it in (to make sure there was no shipping damage). I haven't had the set calibrated yet, but the picture looks great right out of the box ("Pro" setting).One suggestion--I'm running the interlaced component video signal from my DVD player through a DVDO iScan Pro, and the line-doubled image (3:2 cinema pull-down on film-based sources) is excellent. The line-doubler in the Sony is OK, but usually you will get better results from a separate line-doubler/scaler.
I would recommend a standard digital wide screen CRT RPTV at this point and would caution against used since the used set would most probably have been run in the "torch" mode as shipped and would have a short life. I would further recommend a professional calibration by a trained ISF technician for both best picture and longest set life. SONY makes a wonderful series of these in four siizes from 43" to 65" ans the feature a wide variety of options and inputs and have the 2/3 pull down algorhythm for movies on video. These hover around the $2K price pint depending on size. Add a progressive scan DVD player and you're in business for a long time.
If you don't care about slim size, I would recommend a RP CRT TV. They are much cheaper than DLP, LCD, RPLCD, not to mention plasma, and properly set up, can rival/better a lot of them. I would have picked one up if I had the room and my wife didn't veto it.My fave is still Hitachi 65S500. Honking big 65" screen with a great picture. Can be found at very good prices these days, new or used.
Sony WS550 series RPCRT's are good also. Mitsubishi WS series are always good, and Toshiba RPCRT has gotten good reviews, too.
If you don't wanna spend too much $ and have no-frills widescreen HDTV, these are the way to go IMO.
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