Posted on 12/31/2006 4:45:17 AM PST by Las Vegas Dave
Some of you may have purchased HDTV's over the Christmas break.
Please share your comments on your quest for HDTV.
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There are two new technologies coming out this next year....and the one I'm waiting for is laser chip technology. MUCH higher resolution at an average of $1000 cheaper than current technologies.
Seriously worth waiting for. Samsung and others will be rolling out models based on this technology in late 2007. I literally stopped myself dead in my tracks from shelling out for a 56" Samsung DLP once I heard/read about this....and I was all set to get one this Christmas. Worth the delay IMHO.
You can not just hook it up to your cable/sat and get HD. You have to subscribe to get HD or get an antenna if you are close enough and get the signal that way. Do a search and find a good AVS forum and read up on DTV/HDTV!!!! You will love the picture,too bad I don't have one.
I'm still studying these t.v's. love the ping list and HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL
I was at Wally World and looked at both and for me I liked LCD better but first I will see Samsung DLP and then decide!!
I bought the Vizio 46" (at the Costco in Aliante, Dave). I have seen lots of people loading the 36 and 42 inch LCDs over the last months, but I don't think they have the 46 inch sets back in (at least in Vegas). I got it in October and it's been great. The HD is a huge step up (I have Direct TV satelite HD) and you can really see a huge difference between the programs broadcast in HD and those broadcast analog. I've got the 46" LCD on top of an old entertainment center, that is about 50" high itself, so it's a bit like having a movie screen in your living room (very high ceilings).
I have no complaints with the Vizio, it was heavy to get up on the high stand. The HDMI plug ins were simple. I just unplugged the integrated speakers because I only wanted to use my surround sound. The picture, to my untrained eyes, is excellent -- in the store it looked very much like the Panasonic I was looking at when I bought it (I have a smaller Panasonic LCD that I bought some years ago, and it's been good for me as well). But, of course, Costco was putting a steep discount on them...so I took a flyer. The gamble has paid off for me.
No, it doesn't. DLP, in fact, excels in viewing action/sports.
You have a similar setup to mine. I recommend the HD-DVD add-on to the Xbox 360. The difference between my upconvert 720p DVD player and HD is incredible. And for only $200, you're not taking much of a risk while waiting for a winner in the format wars.
The HD picture quality with DirecTV is tremendous. Easily equal to my locals in HD. I've noticed that my receiver does a crappy job of upconverting the non-HD channels, though. I switch it back to native resolution if there's something I want the best picture for in non-HD.
The TV is incredible. Dish Network has about 15 channels of HD. If you subscribe to HBO or Showtime they also have a lot of HD content.
The DVD player in order to take advantage of the upscaling capability requires the HDMI interface. It works fine. The DVD movies look like they are HD despite the fact they are recorded at 480p.
Already there (HDDVD) and yeah it's fanatastic. Now with MS Vista streaming capabilities, the 360 looks like one of my smarter purchases LOL
If you can't see much difference between ESPN (Ch. 206) and ESPN HD (Ch. 73), take your TV back to the store. Your image looks like a standard picture stretched to fit the screen.
No, the 360, the PS3, and the Westinghouse all do 1080p.
I have Verizon coming out next Thursday... can't wait! Am switching from TimeWarner (previously Comcast). I'm told from friends who have switched to FiOS from broadband cable that the upgrade in internet speed is incredible. I've never gotten anywhere near the speed that TW/Comcast advertised (6mb) - last download I started began at 98k - have seen as high as ~750k (once), but that's it.
Price on the FiOS TV appears to be a little better than cable. Cable cost has been about $73/mo (basic with the Starz package - got rid of all other premium movie channels months ago, saved about $15-20/mo. With Verizon I'll get basic, plus their movie package (Showtime, Starz, Encore, The Movie Channel - basically everything except HBO and Cinemax), multi-room DVR and four standard set-top boxes (currently have two) for about $7, plus the taxes and fees. We haven't not gone HD yet - HD set-top boxes are ~$10/mo as opposed to ~$4 for standard.
The upshot is, the upgrade to FiOS TV and Internet should run me pretty close to what I'm paying now but I'm getting an additional two hookups and an quite a few more movie channels, not to mention the internet speed improvement. I'm also told the FiOS TV picture quality is much better than digital cable. We'll see.
I'd like to take credit for good deal bargining but it was simply a function of being in the right place at the right time......
My only regret is not buying two....
What's the model number? The only thingy I could find was a Westinghouse LCD monitor that has 1080p. I watch a lot of standard definition broadcasts from Dish and a LCD monitor would be useless to me.
The Westinghouse is listed as a monitor, since it doesn't have a tuner built in. I assume your Dish network receiver has component and probably HDMI output, though. Both of those work on the Westinghouse.
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