Anyone tried Toshiba resolution+? (aka spec me a telly)

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I've been looking at 32" LCDs and I've come across Toshibas resolution+ feature which claims to upscale SD signals the "near HD" quality.

Now I appreciate this is going to be partly guff but I've got a few bits of tosh and I'm quite happy with them so I don't mind having a look at the tellys.

I want 32", no bigger, for TV/films only and the tricky bit is it has to be good picture quality, good motion control etc but also cheap, sub £400 if possible.

I've got a bit of a fight on my hands having an LCD at all, about 4 years ago I had a 32" samsung and then a 32" sony (£1k at the time even with my sony staff discount! (which I no longer have :()) and we sold them both because a CRT was comprehensively better and even I acknowledged that.. dark areas on progs were blocky, motion handling was awful etc.

Anyway.. I now have a 1080p lcd as my monitor/xbox/ps3 screen so gaming and pc are sorted and therefor I have no real need for 1080p as I never plan to own a bluray player. This is purely for the front room but to gain aceptance from mrs100 it'll have to be able to handle an SD and free to air HD signals well (got a sky hd box but have no plans to upgrade my sky+ to a hd subscription as I never watch movies, sports or sky 1 for the most part but free C4HD and BBCHD will do fine)...

So... I saw the Tosh res+ and thought that sounded like it could be for me.. something to take the edge off motion blur.. does it work?

Am I better trying to get a 100/200hz tv? Are they way out of my price bracket?

Is there another companies smoothing technology I'd be better off with?

basically what should I buy and why?
 
i dont think any current tv will accept dvb-T2 signals when its launched.

as for smoothing, most companies do it, but it can make the picture look rubbish, as for toshiba lcd's ive been playing with the current models and dont realy rate them, slow to respond cheaply made and look pretty plain. the sound is ok tho.

id chose a lg or samsung or the tosh for the money.
 
For watching SD tv a nice plasma is the way to go for you.

Can you get up to a 37inch screen as a 32 will look small as soon as you get it, plus a plasma like the panasonic 37 x10 will be FAR superior to any of the 32inch LCDs for watching normal tv.

Forget looking at 100hz/200hz/eleventy million hz lcd tvs, it won't make the motion handling better than a panasonic plasma. The LG plasmas are supposed to be much better now, and have more calibration options than the panasonic, but they are still less resistant to image retention than a panasonic.
 
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I've got a 46XV635 Toshiba with Resolution+..

Like all TV's, it depends on the model, as to which panel they use..

From my previous 46ZF355, I was expecting the new (but cheaper) LCD to be worse performing, and I only rated the ZF355 as adequate.

I have been pleasantly surprised however, the new panels this year seem a step up, black levels are lower, contrast is high, and motion blur is very low indeed..

I believe Toshiba use Samsung panels in their XV/ZV and SV TV's, but with arguably better (cleanen) processing.. the M120HD processing on mine is very clean indeed..

I'd always go and view the TV's you are interested in, there is no magic one rule fits all for which is better, some Plasma's are better then most LCD's, but there are some LCD's that are better then most Plasma's..

Typically I like Toshiba, since their higher up models use the nice Samsung panels, but their own processing has always had high reviews for it's cleanliness and accuracy. But Sony are the other brand I'd look at, and of course Samsung make the panels in most of these, so are worth a look, but their processing is heavy handed and unnatural at times, but some people like it.


One thing that genuinely impresses me on the Toshiba is the 'auto-view' feature, it is just a dynamic image adjustment mechanism that varies contrast/backlight etc according to the image and room conditions. The difference is that it is quite advanced in what it can adjust, so much so, that I normally 'calibrate' my displays to get them performing well, and find that different inputs/material can sometimes throw it off, but with auto-view its the first time I've actually been happy to leave it up-to the set to keep adjusting, and IMO it actually does a really good job..
 
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cheers thats very interesting :)

I'll go an have a look at some.. just out of interest whats the price range on 37" plasmas?
 
the other thing... does the res make any difference on a plasma? Just had a look at a keenly priced panasonic TXP37C10 but the res is 1024*720, I thought "HD ready" was 1366x768 and then full HD at 1920x1080.. would I lose the edges of the screen on the panasonic?
 
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the other thing... does the res make any difference on a plasma? Just had a look at a keenly priced panasonic TXP37C10 but the res is 1024*720, I thought "HD ready" was 1366x768 and then full HD at 1920x1080.. would I lose the edges of the screen on the panasonic?
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Nope it will be scaled to fit by the tv. I used to have an older HD ready Kuro with that resolution and it still looks as good if not better than most LCDs these days.

Don't worry about the resolution, the difference between LCDs and plasmas is down to the pixel shape. With plasma cells being rectangular, 1024x720 is the correct aspect ration for a 16:9 screen.
 
Is that because a normal SD signal is less than 1024x768?

and what happens with a HD signal that is presumably 1366x768? Does it chop out certain vertical rows? Sorry for being dim but I'm coming at resolution from a PC perspective so if I was playing a game for example at 1280x1024 on a screen that couldn't display that res I'd lose bits around the side, I appreciate I might be totally misunderstanding HDTV.

Also, is a TXP37C10 a good TV?
 
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