LCD TV recommendations?

barnettgs said:
Well, it is only less than £100 to go for 37" but wait and see! :D

For 1080p, I read somewhere that most games for PS3 and 360 run at 720p natively? I'm not sure that you can see a big improvement over the 720p but I haven't seen it myself though.
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I wouldn't say the difference is huge, but then things do become less impressive as you get used to them. Blu-Ray's/HD-DVD's for example don't impress me anywhere near as much now as when I first saw them. Most games are 720p and I would guess that most future games will be 720p.
Metalface Mark said:
I wouldnt really agree with that Wedgie, I have had the 40" Sony Bravia W2000 which was 1080p, swopped it for a 55" 1080p Rear projection, and then swopped that for a Sony 40D3000, 1080i (although it does do 1080p, its scaled), the picture on the 40D3000 is actually better than the W2000 was.

I dont think a 1080p set is worth it until you get to at least 46".
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You may well be right, although I wouldn't consider anything less than 1080p on a 37"+.
 
Jihad said:
Depends I guess, it's absolutely vital if you wanna run a PC off it imo. :)

1366x768 is lame.
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I would disagree with that as well, and Ill tell you why.

I sit about 9 feet away from my 40". When i had the 1080p one, it was a pain in the neck to view the desktop without screwing around the fonts, which were never right.

The current TV is brilliant at 1366x768, perfect viewing from 8 feet.

Of course if you are going to be sitting closer then its worth getting the 1080p.

You would be hard pushed tell the difference between a game at 1080p on either 360 of PS3 over that of a 1080i/720p - the only place you really see a difference is in the desktop of a media pc. Even on my 55" TV there really was next to no difference with 1080p stuff, blu-ray was the only thing that really looked better, no difference at all on my 40" from the distance I sit at.
 
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I'd agree - if you don't watch Blu-ray or HD-DVD, then 1080p isn't worth it this generation. Most of the games are 720p and with them being upscaled there isn't a lot of difference on 1080p. I'd think the next consoles which arrive in 2010 onwards will do 1080p for every game.
 
I bought a 40W2000 beginning of this year, before that I had a 32" CRT and at first I was amazed at the size of the screen, after 2 months it was normal and now I think it is small and should have got the 46" one.

Get one as big as the room and budget allows, also not all LCD's are good at displaying analogue cable, a 40W2000 has a very good scaler and has very good analogue cable and SD DVD's image quality and Blu Ray's at 1080p are awesome.

If the budget is limited and does not stretch to a 1080p LCD get a good 720p 40" LCD
 
Ok, come across an interesting charts for viewing distance between 720 and 1080.

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Source: http://www.carltonbale.com/2006/11/1080p-does-matter/
 
I got a samsung m86, bear in mind the speakers are pretty poor but the image is fantastic;
Starcraft over VGA
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Standard Def via Freeview
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300 in HD over VGA
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Quake wars @ 1920x1080
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Google for hannspree 37" cheap as chips, and on a budget for 360 gaming you cannot go wrong.At £379.98 they are an absolute steal.
It's not 1080P but I struggled to notice the difference between my Hannspree and a mates 42" 1080P Sammy - apart from the size and aesthetic difference. Both TV's performed very similar in gaming. I can't speak for Sky HD, as I dont have that :p

Specs
  • Panel Display 37" Wide
  • Aspect Ratio 16:9
  • Max. Resolution 1366 x 768
  • Display Color 16.7 Million
  • Dot Pitch(H x V,mm) 0.519 x 0.519
  • Contrast Ratio 1000 : 1
  • Brightness 500 Cd/m2
  • Response Time 8 ms
  • Viewing angle 170/170
  • Composite video input RCA x1
  • VGA input D-Sub 15-pin x1
  • SCART input/output 21-pin x2
  • HDMI input x1
  • PC Input
  • 2x 10W Speakers
  • 2 Year on site manufacturers warranty
 
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I have a 32" Hyundai A321 HDMI while it's not a pretty looking set the picture through Sky+ (RGB Scart), 360 (Component), PS3 (HDMI) and HTPC (VGA) are all fantastic. However I do wish i bought a bigger TV and indeed i am saving for at least a 40" LCD. The golden rule with LCD imo is always buy the biggest you can afford even if you don't think your room will be big enough as you will regret it later.
 
Well, as I have researched a bit more, I found out that the cheaper 32" and 37" have much higher power consumption than the more expensive ones.

HANNSG 37" LCD TV for example, uses 270 watts - that's about the same as 4 normal light bulbs being lit while you are watching! :p

Samsung 37" for example, cost around £600 uses 170 watts! Higher price though but it has 8000:1 contrast ratio.
 
Yes you can. Change from dynamic picture mode to standard, then down into "more" and set dynamic contrast to off.

It's more difficult disabling it on certain other models though, on some you need to go into service menu. My brothers Samsung 32" was tricky to disable the auto contrast and dynamic mode also.
 
Yes it is Dynamic Contrast, my Sony 40W2000 also has that, I have it enabled as it works very good, during the day the light sensor notices more light and bumps the contrast higher, in the evening there is less light so the Dynamic Contrast is the same as with it turned off.

Power use of the 40W2000 is 185W for a 40" Full HD which AFAIK is normal, 270W for a 37" is very high and maybe it is an error and should be 170W :confused:
 
light and bumps the contrast higher, in the evening there is less light so the Dynamic Contrast is the same as with it turned off
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The problem is the light from the screen itself effects the light sensor. It really doesn't work that well, once at level it should stay that way for a few hours.
 
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