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Smoking deal on 32" lcd flat panel with built in tv tuner 4 u guys
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ChadTower:

Okay, after hours of cleaning/arranging furniture, it's all set up.

Maybe I'm just old but this thing is dramatically inferior to the old 27" CRT in the other room.  Using S video the picture stretches all weird to fit the widescreen.  If I set it to 1:1 then it's no bigger than a 13" picture in the center of the screen.  Everything is all artifacted when at the best aspect ratio like a jpg blown up way too big.  That would make sense for a 50" screen but this is only a 32" tv.  They make CRTs at 32" that don't artifact stuff like this.  And anything with fast motion (like the MNF game right now) blurs all up when stuff gets quick...

...is all this common LCD stuff?  I know it's not a high end plasma but I figured it would at least be something like a CRT quality picture.
TOK:
Its a ---smurfy--- TV, thats why its cheap. LCD's aren't great at showing analog images (like if you just plugged the cable straight into it). If you put a digital box on there (and your cable company is 100% digital and not digital/analog hybrid) it'll look decent.
ChadTower:

Hrm.  It's coming from DirecTivo... so it's basically the analog converted digital signal. 

shardian:
Plug a set of bunny ears into the digital coax input, sit back and enjoy. At this time, unless you want to pay eleventy bajillion dollars a month for pay hdtv channels, you really shouldn't waste your money on an hdtv as your primamry tv. Even with the major networks, they only broadcast in hdtv for the prime time shows. everything else will just be digital (standard) which means about 80 percent of your tv shows will STILL be 4:3 ratio. Personally, I don't watch much tv, and when I do, it is either movies, or major network tv shows (Lost, Jericho, Heroes), so an hdtv would fit me perfectly. If you watch ALOT of regular tv, then hd sets will mostly suck.  ;D

As to the artifacts, that is what happens when you take a video source with 100,000 pixels of info and fit it to a display with 1,000,000 pixels (before nitpickers hit me up, these numbers are not accurate - just meant as example). Same reason high compression DIVX videos look like crap when blown up too big.
ChadTower:
Well, I learned a couple of things last night.

1)  The set needed a couple of hours to acclimate itself.  It looked much better two hours after I posted. 

2)  I was standing way too close to make a quality judgment.  I was standing right in front of it.  It looks a lot better from ten feet away.

3)  As expected, it's not a $1200 quality TV.  For $540, though, once I got oriented on the best aspect mode and viewing distance, it's definitely worth that amount.  I haven't tried it as a computer monitor or for gaming yet but those are supposedly its actual strengths.
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