Best LCD TV for Wii

Burned_Alive said:
Semantics, by picture quality i meant the quality of the picture you see, not the technical definition of "picture quality".
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Seriously the only issue is jaggies with the Wii, Ive had most of the consoles connected up to the Samsung LCD or a Sanyo projector and they all have jaggies if you look close enough.
Also notice how some Xbox 360 games look very brown for want of a better word, to keep up frame rates, gears of war, Ridge racer, Forza 2.
And then how good Motorstorm on the PS3 looks but has a poor frame rate :mad: and only runs in 720P, and to think after Sony hyped up 1080P and 60FPS for the game.

They all have their merits, with the Wii its about game design, simplicity and experience of the new controller. With the the other two it has been more about technical achievment and they have failed in some areas so far.
The Wii hasnt failed at what it has tried to achieve.
 
Burned_Alive said:
So you think the Wii graphics are good then? For a next gen console the graphics are poor.
*Remember we're talking about viewing on HD LCDs here.

I'm not trying to bash the Wii, but having owned one, its a below par "next gen" system, Its a good job it has the Wiimote!
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I think Super Mario Galaxy is one of the best looking games I've played in a long time, Halo 3 is comparison looks an plays just like the original xbox version.
 
D.P. said:
The wii has over twice the processing power of the first xbox.
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It's actually got a tiny bit less. I've yet to see Wii graphics in general look better than Xbox graphics as well. SMG is the exception but hey, that's Miyamoto's raw genius and art direction at its best. It's a pity that's the only example, the rest of the Wii library look awful. The capability is certainly there but it's not being tapped at all.
 
The Wii looks ok at 480p via component on my Samsung 26" LCD tv at about 2m away.

Any closer and it looks crap. It looks better on a tv with a lower native resolution, like a 32" crt tv at 576i.

If you want a 32" tv just sit a bit further away, which you would probably do anyway.

The new Panasonic range of TV's did well in "What Hi-fi" mag, better than the samsungs anyway, which are generally the benchmark for mid-range tv's.
 
Malc said:
The Wii looks ok at 480p via component on my Samsung 26" LCD tv at about 2m away.

Any closer and it looks crap.
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That's not the Wiis fault that's the nature of LCDs, sky and cable boxes also look crap if you sit close up. This has been common knowledge on AV forums for the last 5 years.
At the moment with HD broadcasts still taking off and no clear HD video format, chosing an LCD has been about finding one that upscales and processes well. When I was demoing they all looked good running a Philips HD demo box.


It looks better on a tv with a lower native resolution, like a 32" crt tv at 576i.
If you want a 32" tv just sit a bit further away, which you would probably do anyway.
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CRTs don't have a native res.
 
ok guys, thanks for all the intresting posts. Have learnt a fair bit by reading every post. I have decided to go for a 26" Sony KDL26U3000U. I will be picking that up for crimbo :). If there is a MUCH better 26" HD LCD out there tell me but that seems quite decent.
 
The Wii looks superb on a 42"/46" Sharp XD1E, and also a Pioneer 508xd plasma..

As mentioned it depends on a sets ability to upscale, when we moved I had to go back to a 27" LCD temporarily, and playing Wii Sports on that was very underwhelming..

If you want more 'future' proof go for the largest screen you can afford a decent model in.. I never met anyone that bought a large screen and after a few weeks turned around and said it was too big and they preferred their old smaller set..
 
The only major differances will be in games like Zelda, where Jaggies will be more prone to show, but the Textures do look brighter as they are on LCD, depends really if you like smooth edges.
 
SC04 said:
That's not the Wiis fault that's the nature of LCDs, sky and cable boxes also look crap if you sit close up. This has been common knowledge on AV forums for the last 5 years.
At the moment with HD broadcasts still taking off and no clear HD video format, chosing an LCD has been about finding one that upscales and processes well. When I was demoing they all looked good running a Philips HD demo box.



CRTs don't have a native res.
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Well CRT tv's have a resolution that they are designed to run at and a Max resolution that they can output. Older CRT tv's are designed to run at the resolution of a Television broadcast (720x576) and therefore the Wii looks better on them, thats all I meant.

The Wii does look crap on a tv with a higher native res than what the Wii outputs, like you said it's the nature of LCD Tv's, the upscaler does play a part, but I own a Samsung R74 tv and it looks dissapointingly poo on my tv.

I think that output resolution does matter on some titles and not on others i.e. RE4 where the picture looks like a jaggy mess. Whereas super monkey ball wouldn't really benefit.

Also saying the Wii hasn't failed at what it hasn't tried to achieve doesn't really mean anything. I haven't tried to beat Jonathan Edwards' triple jump record but that doesn't mean that I'm not a crap triple jumper.;)
 
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