Wife's given permission to get HDTV - want to pick your brains

dirtydog said:
Do the inverted commas imply that women's brains don't work? :D
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Does your line of questioning of my use of quotation marks imply that you think that womens brains do work? ;)
dirtydog said:
Anyway I keep forgetting this isn't SC :cool:
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This is the new SC. No limitations of free speech as long as it isn't offensive or designed to annoy. ;)
 
Thanks for all the advice so far.

To add to the wifey topic, ever since she-who-must-be-obeyed said yes I've been quite worried. There's definately something she's not telling me.
 
I really do think Hdtv's are worth it now, even standard dvd's played in a decent player ( even an "budget" £80 Samsung hd850) will look much better on an upscaling tv ( even though this dvd player upscales also if required) as apposed to on a standard def tv

While they are in the £1000 or more range you might think about getting a decent 5.1 amp / reciever with hdmi switching

There are a few budget denon amps (1906 and 2106) for sub £300 that have componant switching built it

I have heard good things from the all in one packages ( dvd/amp and speakers) however you reallly do get what you pay for, and these packages rarely are hdmi / componant capable

360 on a hidef set does look good, my preference is RR6 but might get Oblivion by the positive reports i have read elsewhere here
 
Good question - I think it's because it's cheaper for them to make them at that resolution, for some reason. I don't like it though.
 
skysnapper said:
Wierd! :confused: Don't htink i ve noticed any plasamas or LCDs trhat natively do 720

DLP TVs on the other hand seem to be natively 720..
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Its a legacy of the manufacturing plant which was geared for 4:3 panels. DLP TVs work on a different principle so they can use a more suitable resolution.

LCDs will be native 1280x720 and 1920x1080 in the next year or so when new factories have been built, and existing ones renovated.

If you really want a high quality image, get a 1280x720 LCD projector. In a dark room they'll beat any TV hands down.
 
VIRII said:
The 360 looks brilliant on it though, the large screen size makes me happier and I use a "cheap" upscaling DVD player to squeeze a bit more from my DVD collection (Samsung HD950).
As above,

i got the 26" sammy as its for my room, and the samsung hd950, only problem i have with the dvd player is the display is very bright!! which can be annoying when watching a film in the dark.

Also go for seperate amp, make sure it has a decent amount of optical in's ie one for the x360 and atleast another for the dvd player ;)
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Boogle said:
Its a legacy of the manufacturing plant which was geared for 4:3 panels. DLP TVs work on a different principle so they can use a more suitable resolution.

LCDs will be native 1280x720 and 1920x1080 in the next year or so when new factories have been built, and existing ones renovated.

If you really want a high quality image, get a 1280x720 LCD projector. In a dark room they'll beat any TV hands down.
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I was spent a while looking at LCD's last night it appears you can get 720's in 22 inch - 27 inch flavours and 50 to 60inch.

But not in 32 to 42! and i need a 42 one ... arsebiscuits! Looks like im going to have to wait then! Don't want any of this upscaling malarky!
 
dirtydog said:
Hmm how can they get away with calling that an HDTV when its resolution is 1024x768?!
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Because HDTV is classed as 720 horizontal lines of detail, at progressive scan. There is no specification for the number of vertical lines. They use rectangular pixels to get the correct aspect ratio.
 
I thought it was very clear what 720p means: 1280x720 ? A 1024x768 panel therefore is incapable of producing true 720p output. I'd expect more for two grand myself.
 
Sony have a 3LCD rear projection that I've been sorely tempted by: the KDFE50A12.

It's got quite a following over on AV Forums.
 
dirtydog said:
I thought it was very clear what 720p means: 1280x720 ? A 1024x768 panel therefore is incapable of producing true 720p output. I'd expect more for two grand myself.
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Nope thats not the definition of 720P. Its 720P, not 1280x720P

The definition is that is has to include 720 lines of horizontal detail, in a widescreen format, ouputting a progressive scan image at 50hz (for UK), which the above plasma can do, and is therefore HD ready. More importantly than a pixel count, that particular model will output a far higher image quality than anything LCD can muster, no matter what the resolution. For info, the vast majority of HD plasma's output at that resolution.
 
Sagalout said:
Nope thats not the definition of 720P. Its 720P, not 1280x720P

The definition is that is has to include 720 lines of horizontal detail, in a widescreen format, ouputting a progressive scan image at 50hz (for UK), which the above plasma can do, and is therefore HD ready. More importantly than a pixel count, that particular model will output a far higher image quality than anything LCD can muster, no matter what the resolution. For info, the vast majority of HD plasma's output at that resolution.
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Exactly. Thanks for writing it out though :).
 
Surely though a screen with native of 1024x768 will be scaling the 720p image as it has more horizontal lines to fill? Which in turn would reduce quality?
 
The 360 is always scaling - it just doesnt seem to make much difference on a TV compared to a monitor, although perosnally I connect my plasma up via VGA and set it to 1024x768 widescreen in the dash. Looks superb.

The other thing with plasma is it will look great at any resolution - its not like LCD technology that often looks poor when not in its native res.
 
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