I was going to post this in the Home Cinema & Hi-Fi forums but as it's mainly because of the 360 I thought I'd pick your brains first.
I currently have a Toshiba 32" Picture frame TV with built in 5.1. It's a great TV and does 480P (albeit with some picture interference that's only noticable with dark images.. think Condemned, dungeons in Oblivion & no problems with Burnout etc); having the 5.1 built in has been fantastic.
Now the Mrs (yep, the boss) has given me the tentative go ahead for a HDTV solution. I sold it to her as part of the lounge decoration and said now would be a good time to stick all the 5.1 wires in the wall and stick the TV on a canter leaver giving us all the extra space etc.
My current requirements are for the 360, Standard Sky (thinking of Sky HD when it comes down in price) and maybe a HDDVD when it takes off.
I'm going for a 32" LCD as the room really doesn't need anything bigger. I've looked at the Samsung and LG 32" offerings but I'm quite taken with waiting a little and having a look at the Toshiba 32WLT66 as it seems more future proof with it's 2 HDMI inputs.
Obviously I'd like to have 5.1 but here I'm stuck, what are people here using? Seperate AV amps and speakers or all in one solutions? Every forum I've looked at has different recommendations. Would I really hear a real world difference between a £200 'solution' or a £200 / £300 amp and set of £300 speakers?
Also as it's not just going to involve a new TV I'm starting to question whether to hold out as the 360 does actually look quite good on the Tosh CRT at 480P and I don't have Sky HD or a HDDVD player yet! For a non HDTV I probably couldn't do much better tbh.
Does the 360 really look 'that' much better at 720P over 480P?
I currently have a Toshiba 32" Picture frame TV with built in 5.1. It's a great TV and does 480P (albeit with some picture interference that's only noticable with dark images.. think Condemned, dungeons in Oblivion & no problems with Burnout etc); having the 5.1 built in has been fantastic.
Now the Mrs (yep, the boss) has given me the tentative go ahead for a HDTV solution. I sold it to her as part of the lounge decoration and said now would be a good time to stick all the 5.1 wires in the wall and stick the TV on a canter leaver giving us all the extra space etc.
My current requirements are for the 360, Standard Sky (thinking of Sky HD when it comes down in price) and maybe a HDDVD when it takes off.
I'm going for a 32" LCD as the room really doesn't need anything bigger. I've looked at the Samsung and LG 32" offerings but I'm quite taken with waiting a little and having a look at the Toshiba 32WLT66 as it seems more future proof with it's 2 HDMI inputs.
Obviously I'd like to have 5.1 but here I'm stuck, what are people here using? Seperate AV amps and speakers or all in one solutions? Every forum I've looked at has different recommendations. Would I really hear a real world difference between a £200 'solution' or a £200 / £300 amp and set of £300 speakers?
Also as it's not just going to involve a new TV I'm starting to question whether to hold out as the 360 does actually look quite good on the Tosh CRT at 480P and I don't have Sky HD or a HDDVD player yet! For a non HDTV I probably couldn't do much better tbh.
Does the 360 really look 'that' much better at 720P over 480P?
