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Congratulations, Victor; I was unaware that you'ld purchased an HDTV.

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In Reply to: The Sounds of Music...... HDTV rules! posted by Victor Khomenko on December 30, 2002 at 08:26:44:

Yes, the HD picture is absolutely breathtaking, even on material you might otherwise not watch. In addition to prime time programs and movies on the major networks I catch myself watching Mark Cuban's HDNet now and then for music performances, nature documentaries and even the occasional travelog! Widescreen HD is hard to beat.
BTW, what model (direct view, rear screen, front projection, LCD, Plasma, DLP, etc.) did you buy, if you don't mind my asking?
AuPh

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Well, kind of - Victor Khomenko 14:33:33 12/30/02 (1)
I have had the HDTV for well over two years now, but there has been nothing to watch, so I simply used it as a regular TV, to watch the tapes - imagine that! Receiving the HD signal over the air has been highly problematic at my location, with tall trees around. The picture would be there for few minutes, then fade away. So I simply boxed my HD receiver and never looked back. But at least I knew what it was like, and what to look forward to.
Some time ago my cable company started transmitting the HD signals, and we got their service. There are now three HDTV channels included in the "somewhat-basic" service. I don't pay for premium services, as you might know (No Money For Hollywood!).
We used to have the Toshiba 34" direct view HDTV up to now, and I loved it, but it was way toooooooo bulky for my wife's taste. So recently we got the 50" Pioneer 5030 plasma that I hung on the wall, just to keep her happy.
If you are a real stickler, you can always see some misconvergence on the best CRT screen. And of course plasma doesn't have it, making it even more enjoyable. Both the Toshiba and the plasma present beautiful HD pictures, I really don't know which flavor I would keep if I lived in an ideal world. To me plasma always "beautifies" the images, but I don't mind that all that much.
- I know exactly what you mean. - Audiophilander 15:38:32 12/30/02 (0)
  We've owned a direct view 38" HDTV (RCA) for about a year and a half and while I haven't noticed any convergence problems, on some programming there is a slight squeezing of the picture on the extreme right and left sides; it's almost unnoticeable, but I think it's inherrent in most if not all direct view WS sets. When you talk about misconvergence I think about 3 tube CRT projectors (front & rearscreen). I used to own a 46" SONY rearscreen (standard 4:3 academy format) and spent hours learning how to adjust the internal pots ...and probably voiding the manufacturer's warranty in the process :o)... just to eliminate niggling convergence errors.
  BTW, I do like the Plasma monitors in spite of the slightly artificial "more real than real" picture quality (i.e., "beutified" image as you called it), but they seem a wee bit overpriced. Oh well, it's to be expected with cutting edge technology, right? Anyway, the thinness of plasma monitors are a big plus and as long as one is careful to avoid a burn-in scenario (i.e., where a paused still-frame picture actually burns an image onto the screen) the plasmas offer theoretical longevity at least five times that of conventional CRTs!
  It's nice to see that cable companies are finally beginning to offer HD programming; in our area we switched from cable to DirectView satellite sevice because our cable company kept making promises but failed to deliver.
  Cheers,
  AuPh

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