What TV?
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Hi Everyone,
I'm looking to renovate my living room and want to put in a flat TV. I watch mostly cable TV, with some DVDs.
However, I have the following concerns
- Plasma pictures, to my eyes, always look very soft with slight fuzzy ghosting.
- LCD pictures I think are brighter and more vivid, but the motion tracking on every large screen I've seen has been poor, resulting in 'jerky' movement like a flicker.
Is a projector system worth considering? Would I need to black out the room every time I wanted to watch?
Nothing I've seen can beat my excellent JVC CRT at the moment and it seems silly to take a retrograde step just to get rid of a cabinet....
Thoughts please??
I'm looking to renovate my living room and want to put in a flat TV. I watch mostly cable TV, with some DVDs.
However, I have the following concerns
- Plasma pictures, to my eyes, always look very soft with slight fuzzy ghosting.
- LCD pictures I think are brighter and more vivid, but the motion tracking on every large screen I've seen has been poor, resulting in 'jerky' movement like a flicker.
Is a projector system worth considering? Would I need to black out the room every time I wanted to watch?
Nothing I've seen can beat my excellent JVC CRT at the moment and it seems silly to take a retrograde step just to get rid of a cabinet....
Thoughts please??
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Cutting edge technology from the core manufacturers will always put the panels from rebadged suppliers in the shade.
Also be aware that you rarely see a well set up and configured flat panel although hopefully with HD on the horizon that may change.
Never used a projector but for everyday use I can't see it being practical.
No doubt that a good CRT can still outperform (in some areas) a flat panel display but you have to decide if a light weight, shallow HD capable display meets more of your wish list than a big, heavy CRT.
I've looked at lots of plasmas from different manufacturers in different showrooms and yes, some are better than others. It's still a very soft picture though.
LCDs so far are a complete no from me...
When i was in Blackpool i saw an LCD tv they has displayed on the counter in Woolworths, and the picture quality was just amazing. I fell in love with the picture straight away, i just kept on staring at for about 30 seconds. It was a decent size, about a 20 inch one, well yeah okay, it might have just been fit for a bedroom maybe. I still loved the picture on it though. Haven't seen anything above a 20 inch LCD though.
I thought the same for a couple fo years before finally getting a LCD for my PC and quite frankly it dispelled all the doubts I had. Looked into a LCD for my main TV and not regretted it especially when playing HD streamed from my PC.
But the image a LCD produces has a different look to it than other technologies, if you don't like it you don't like it:)
The latest DLP's are not too bulky and a few can be wall hung and in a slightly longer time frame the next gen SED and OLED displays may be a solution.
Which is why you buy the latest models from the manufacturers who are actually doing the R&D not from the companies who sell old technology.
No real complaints (even with footy) on my 32" Philips LCD and that technology will be on my list for a full 42"plus 1920*1080 panel in the near future.
I'm more than satisfied that the technology is sound but I expect it's not for you:)