Main > Everything Else

Black Friday Sales early at Wal-Mart

<< < (4/6) > >>

ChadTower:

Eh, I don't see the big difference between 720p and 1080i/p.  It's just not big enough to wait another year or two or spend another 40%.

shardian:
In most cases that i've seen, 1080i looks worse than native 720p.

shmokes:
A 720p signal will look better on a native 720p set than a 1080i/p signal on the same set.  But a 1080i/p signal will look better on a native 1080i/p set than a 720p signal will look on a similar quality native 720p set.  And the signals being broadcast are going to be 1080i/p by and large.  In a year I doubt there will be TVs limited to 720p still on the market.

Like I say, if you need a TV right now, this is a good deal (though I'd still probably say that you should just settle on a DLP projection screen).  But if you've just been wanting to get a big flat panel TV, and have been waiting for them to drop below $1000, I would wait another year.  I just think that if you buy this TV you'll be dissatisfied with it a couple years down the road, where if you wait for a similar-sized 1080i/p set to drop below $1000 you'll be happy with it for 2 or 3 times as long.  I know that there's always going to be bigger and better things around the corner, but that doesn't mean that any time is as good as any other to jump on a technology.

My $.02

ChadTower:
It's reasonable... but I'm looking for small form factor too, as I don't want to have to replace my solid oak entertainment center.  I could easily put a flatscreen up on top and move the components to where the TV is now... but I couldn't put a DLP projection TV up on top.  I don't have any plans to move to HD in the near future.  50" may be pushing the reasonable limits for staying with SD stuff, though, and my price limit is a lot closer to $750 than it is $1000.

Oh, and I kind of do need a new TV.  Our SD 27" is dying.  Needs at least a cap kit and it's not really worth doing.  It has warmup issues that are getting worse.

shmokes:
Are you sure about that DLP thing?  I commonly mistake DLP sets for flat panels when I see them at peoples' houses or at Costco, etc..  I mean, they're substantially deeper or thicker or whatever than a flat panel, but not nearly so much as traditional rear-projection sets.  it's really easy to mistake them for a flat panel if you aren't actually looking at it from the side.  My rear-projection HD TV is a freaking monster.  The thing is enormous (for a 42" TV), but the DLP sets are relatively little things, meant to be set on top of a table or entertainment center or stand of some kind.  If you set it on the floor, you'd be looking down at it, just like if you set a flat panel monitor on the floor.  They also have a great picture -- considerably better than any sub-$1000 flat panel of the same resolution.  And no screen burn-in worries like you have with older-tech projection TVs.  That's probably what I'd be doing if I were in the market for a large, sub-$1000 TV right now.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page

Go to full version