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In Reply to: Just bought our first wide-screen LCD TV--and we hate it posted by bigi on September 1, 2005 at 02:46:04:
I haven't read all of the postings in this thread, so please excuse me if this is repeated information.I don't know if there is a comparable model in the UK, but the Sony XBR 34" 16:9 (widescreen) is about the best looking set in the consumer market at any price. It's around $2000 here.
If you spend $30,000 and up, you can get a 3-chip projector that looks almost as good but is a lot bigger. Everthing else pretty much sucks.
If you can't get the Sony XBR, try and get a widescreen CRT with progressive scan inputs. This will look pretty darn spectacular with a good DVD player. All of the new technologies suck in comparison and cost a lot more to boot.
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These are a few unaltered photographs of our Pioneer plasma TV being fed a terrestrial digital signal. PQ is vastly superior to the direct-view set it replaced. (Note that the center of the picture has a reflection from our window).
You are right. The CRT is still the best quality and with the marketing hype the best bargain.
I built a HT room and installed an InFocus 7205 projecting onto
a 103" Stewart Firehawk screen. The audio is 5.1 with Magnepans front
and rear. Without exception, everyone who's seen it is blown away.
Excellent contrast, natural colors with tremendous saturation,
superb resolution. HDTV looks incredible, making even DVD's appear
second-rate. LCD, plasma and CRT are OK but not in the
same league. The only problem with front projection is it takes
a moderately large room.
... you wouldn't like it so well if you had ever seen a well setup CRT projector. That's what we have at the Ayre factory -- a 7" Mitsubishi CRT projector that was only made for the Japanese market. It's scary good, and *leagues* beyond any single chip DLP I've seen (and I've seen plenty).The 3-chip DLPs and DILAs are *much* more "solid" and "film like" than the single-chip DLPs, although the black levels still suck compared to CRTs. Plus you are talking $30,000 and up for a good 3-chipper.
(Anyway, I would assume that the original poster who purchased a 27" direct view LCD is not very interested in a projector.)
fwiw the LG LCoS RPTV is a 3-chipped unit. Spatialight makes the chipset.
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