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Re: HDTVs: it's time to Man Up
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 12:17 am
by mr6kings
HardcoreVikesFan wrote:Go LCD. Plasmas look good for about 2 years, then they start to fail. Plus LCD limits glare. Some LCD to check out are, Samsung, Sharp, and a Sony Bravia. I have a Bravia. Those are great TVs. Samsungs are good TVs too. It's your choice, but I would stick to an LCD. Just my 2 cents.
I'd agree I've got a 50' Samsung Plasma great picture but dark or nightime scenes I get some picture variations of blacks and gray, I't not pixelations but the colorrs shift. If you can checkout a movie or show night scene on a plasma you'll see what I mean. Burn in is something you have to be carefull for. Those bars at the top of the screen during football games will remain faint for a little bit when changin channels. My tvs only 7 months old so it clear pretty quick but not so sure as it ages. I love mine but if I did it over again I think I's go LCD.
Mark Solie
Re: HDTVs: it's time to Man Up
Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 5:27 pm
by Krulik
TrenchGoon wrote:I have an old zenith wooden television which I picked up off the side of the road WITH working remote control and I've got to say that is really the way to go. Not only was it free but it still works despite being over 40 years old. its also quite attractive and compliments my old Zenith wood cabinet stereo and record player which I grabbed for $10 at a garage sale. They are really attractive pieces of furniture which have practical application and still work well.
I used to have a 60 inch big screen I grabbed off the side of the road and it was fun to watch bull riding and football on but the picture quality was far inferior to my Zenith.
HAHA literally priceless. Only thing I've ever picked up off the side of the road is a keg. A FULL keg.
Re: HDTVs: it's time to Man Up
Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:16 am
by BaldViking
Mr. X wrote:I generally do not pay extra for cables but with one exception ... HDMI. My own personal experience is that you are better off going premium on HDMI especially how critical that component is to the investment you are making in an HDTV. I use Monoprice.com . You cannot beat their prices and it's good quality stuff. Whatever you do, do not buy HDMI cables at Best Buy or any other big box retailers. They all have huge markups on their HD peripherals.
I went with a Panny plasma about a year ago. The ambient lighting is an issue (i.e. you need to be able to control the light coming into the room you locate the set) otherwise you'll get way too much glare. On the other hand I feel my plasma is better for sports than my brother's new LCD.
I have DirecTV but only because of Sunday Ticket. Dish Network has a better HD receiver. I've had to return one receiver already as it completely failed. Customer service at DirecTV isn't very good but it's still 100X better than my local cable option. DirecTV is also still using that compressed signal BS which essentially gives you HD-lite. If Dish had Sunday Ticket, I would switch to them to get a better receiver and get rid of this compressed signal BS.
One thing to keep your eye on. Comcast won a recent lawsuit giving it the ability to allow you to store your recordings off-site instead of the hard drive inside your receiver. Sats don't have the option to do that. It will be appealed on coyright issues but it looks like it is going to stand up. That is going to give the cable jockeys a nice selling advantage in that you'll be able to store about 30x more than what you currently can with your HD receiver.
While I had Dish Network, (Which I don't now) I was absolutely stunned at their HD quality over DirecTV. It's too bad that DirecTV has Sunday Ticket and no one else. The NFL absolutely needs to rethink that one!