This may sound odd... but i finally got an HDTV... GLORY.

sadly bluRay is starting to look soft to me.... If its not 1000% sharp it bothers my eyes...

The Imax Scenes from Dark Knight, or the BARAKA BluRay are examples of what looks "sharp"
to me now....
 
HDTV is old......I'm about to buy an Imax projector.....but I have lots of problems with my neghbours as I would need all their houses power to run it.....
 
Not odd at all Tim. I haven't skimmed the posts but I still have the standard 4:3 27" TV.
It works great. But grats on the new system. It's probably more adapted to the kinds of things your doing these days. ( Is anything done in 4:3 anymore? No? eh..:))
 
Saw a Full-HD CRT TV at a friends house yesterday.

First time I looked at interlaced material (1080i) on a consumer screen that does not mabojambo away half of the lines and thereby sacrifing resolution by some odd (pun intended) deinterlacing chip but gives you the full resolution with all the bells and whistles.

Pans, tilts, any movement is as brilliant as static scenes. No jitter, judder and resolution changes. Smooth as butterscotch in the sun and sharp as a tack.

Hard to look at ANY flatscreen/TFT/Plasma again.

Frank
 
I agree Frank. If all you stare at for a while are LEDs and Plasmas, you forget how nice a high quality CRT looks. The main issue with LEDs and Plasmas is that 90% of them in people's homes are adjusted way out of whack, the signals that cable and satellite companies send are usually really bad and most people don't even begin to understand aspect ratio so they are watching 4x3 SD stretched and think they are watching HDTV. The bottom line is that TVs are too complicated for the average layperson to properly adjust.

I have a Philips widescreen CRT 26" that still looks great with a good DVD. It's not HD but at least it is widescreen. And I have a Sony 36" CRT. Same thing, not HD but it looks pretty good for NTSC. LEDs and plasmas can look amazing IF they are fed a good signal and are adjusted correctly but few that I see in homes are even in the neighborhood of being adjusted correctly. I am still holding out for OLED or other new technology so that when the prices on LEDs and plasmas plummet even more than they have already, I can pickup the same set that many of you are paying two or three thousand for for $300.00 at Costco. It will happen eventually.

Oh yeah, and I channel surfed all 300+ channels on Direct TV last night and found NOTHING worth watching. It was the first time I have watched broadcast TV in months and now I remember why it has been months since I watched. I still say TV rots the mind.

Dan
 
I'm unplugging the satellite next month. It isn't worth it for the four or five channels that semi-frequently carry anything worth watching...
 
puredrifting said:
I have a Philips widescreen CRT 26" that still looks great with a good DVD. It's not HD but at least it is widescreen. ....I still say TV rots the mind.

Dan
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Maybe you have a HD TV.
The Full-HD CRT I saw yesterday was a Philips 32PW9551 - strangely it was never advertized as HD, but If you throw a HD Coponent signal at it, you can see it in full glory.

And yeah, I havent watched TV since over a year and I sure don´t miss it.

Frank
 
puredrifting said:
The main issue with LEDs and Plasmas is that 90%
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Not to nit pick, I'm sure you meant LCD* (more acurately TFT) ;)

Anhar

*LED Screens do exist, but they are used for 100 Foot plus screen as used in big open air concerts or public place, where each "pixel" is literally a single variable color LED.
 
Yes, I did mean LCDs, I have not seen an LED television besides the little 11" Sony OLED and those crappy little Casio LED TVs they used to sell in the 80s.

Dan
 
What about these?

http://www.samsung.com/us/productsubtype/led/

Are they different? Just curious - I love my Samsung 40" LCD, because it produces rich, sharp images and now suddenly they've come out with even NEWER technology? No surprise there, but I also thought as mentioned above that LED technology was a little further away.

Kegan
 
Hunter007 said:
What about these?

http://www.samsung.com/us/productsubtype/led/

Are they different? Just curious - I love my Samsung 40" LCD, because it produces rich, sharp images and now suddenly they've come out with even NEWER technology? No surprise there, but I also thought as mentioned above that LED technology was a little further away.

Kegan
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LED is OLD tech not new, but for use in TVs, that's kind of new, since LED "TV's" have traditionally been used for large screens in open public venues (e.g. sports stadiums etc.)

Anhar
 
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