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Posted: February 19th, 2009, 16:18
by deject
Samsung LCD panels are the best of the lot in my opinion. Their black levels are almost as good as plasmas and their overall colours are far better than any plasma I've seen.
Posted: February 19th, 2009, 20:13
by Dave Trouser
mrbobbins wrote:
And when watching SD telly it all looks shit so doesn't really matter what you get.
I thought that was going to be the case before I got mine. Sure, the internal freeview is fairly bad as you might expect, and most of that is due to the extra compression for over-the-air digital, but both 480 and 1080 upscaled SD from my cable box is better than I'd thought possible. Is it just Virgin Media, or is the SkyHD box ok for upscaling too? What about the higher-end Freeview/FreeSat boxes?
Also, with the latest LCDs, I don't think Plasma has a significant advantage anymore. 100Hz LCDs (Sony Bravia, Sharp Aquos etc) don't just do the crappy "show each frame twice" trick, unlike plasma. Extra interpolated frames are put in. Blacks are black too, finally.
Given the massive price difference, any minor advantage of plasma is long gone.
Posted: February 20th, 2009, 0:01
by mrbobbins
Hmm, well on a Sky HD box the SD channels will probably look better via hdmi than via scart into your HDTV but whether it actually upscales it I'm not so sure.
Oh, and also they're
really good™
But then it's all relative, 20% of people in the US owning a HDTV, but not actually receiving HD content, believe they are watching HD pictures
Posted: February 20th, 2009, 12:57
by Dave Trouser
mrbobbins wrote:Hmm, well on a Sky HD box the SD channels will probably look better via hdmi than via scart into your HDTV but whether it actually upscales it I'm not so sure.
Oh, and also they're
really good™
But then it's all relative, 20% of people in the US owning a HDTV, but not actually receiving HD content, believe they are watching HD pictures
Hah, NTL/Virgin used to use Pace. I'm glad they switched to Scientific Atlanta. Now all I need them to do is enable the eSATA connection to expand the storage a bit :-)
Got One
Posted: March 27th, 2009, 19:23
by No1Jew
I finally Pulled my finger out and twisted Mrs Jews arm and i'm Glad I waited. I just (2mins ago) ordered this
http://www.sharp.co.uk/DH77-100Hz-HD-10 ... /lc42dh77e
However I only paid £631.38 incl. delivery.
Happy Days !!!
Posted: March 27th, 2009, 19:43
by Dog Pants
That's a big telly.
Posted: March 27th, 2009, 23:15
by HereComesPete
Yay for big TV's!
Posted: March 27th, 2009, 23:32
by deject
HereComesPete wrote:Yay for big TV's!
the WERDZ have a 52" Samsung LCD, it's glorious.