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Grrr . . . my TV broke
Guaranos:
When my projection TV's convergence went screwy, I was quoted $250 to fix it. Instead, I found the part number for the convergence board, bought it for $70 shipped, and installed it myself. It had 4 connectors and took all of 5 minutes.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on December 25, 2007, 11:33:51 am ---It can be, but like I say, I've had mine for seven years and I've played A LOT of video games. I've also come home after being gone for hours only to realize that someone had left the TV on, sitting on the Xbox Media Center menu screen -- meaning there was white text just sitting in one spot on the screen, unmoving. No burn-in.
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Most of the reports I've seen of that type of burnin have come where the TV is in high light places - and on all the time. The brightness is set way up to compensate for ambient lighting and it's just hours upon hours upon hours of still time. Places like TV showrooms (ironically). I can't say I've ever seen noticeable burn-in in a home application. Not even on a CRT.
Jdurg:
I'm just happy that we have options now. When I was a kid you only had the choice between the massive CRTs or a projection TV that suffered from burn-in and was also not of a very good quality.
I got my 1080p LG 42" LCD TV for a few reasons. One was that the LCD TV used less energy than the equivalent Plasma that I was looking at which is a big thing for someone who just bought a house and has to pay electricity bills. Another thing was that I don't like stretching out my Standard Definition TV images to fill the screen. I find that to be as offensive as Pan-and-Scan is on movies. I keep the initial aspect ratio and watch a lot of regular TV. Therefore, with a Plasma I'd have to worry about the vertical black bars burning in to the Plasma TV. With LCD, burn-in is just not possible.
Another thing that brought me to the LCD was that at the size I'm looking at, the big differences between Plasma and LCD aren't really that noticeable. I watch football on Sundays and absolutely love the clarity and smoothness of the image. I drool when watching High Definition baseball games now. I'm ecstatic that my cable company is dropping their two-tier High Def service and just making it one tier without upping the price. (This means I'll get ESPN in HD, the NFL Network in HD, etc). We're also getting more HD channels which is nice.
But honestly, I don't think there's anything wrong with all the choices we have. No matter what your situation is, you'll always have an option available which makes TV and Home Movies these days sooooooooooooooooooo much better than when I was a young one.
Edit: It's also kind of funny because my dad, who isn't technologically capable at all nor does he know anything about technology, saw my TV when I finally calibrated it properly and said "Oh my god, this is the best thing I've ever seen. This is what HD is?!!!" He then kept asking me advice on TVs since he wanted to buy one for the den which used to be my bedroom (before I moved out). He ended up getting a Sharp Aquos because his work had some deal where he paid only 75% of the price. It's not a bad TV though. I went over a week or two ago to calibrate everything and my mom now says that my father is glued to that TV. Can't wait to see his reaction when baseball season starts. (Like me, a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE Yankees fan and our local Fox station has an HD feed and is doing the non-YES games this year. So every Yankees game will be in HD for us! :applaud: :cheers:
divemaster127:
TV's are something I know a few things about. I provide several thousand of these a year to the military thru the service since I work in supply. Once a year as part of our bonus program the miltiary provides us with a TV of our choice both so I can learn the technology more & its a good incentive.
1. The old projection TV's are a dead technology I would not repair, esp. when you can get a 40 lcd or 42 inch plasma for under a grand if you shop.
2. LCD TV's are great as long as you purchase a 42" or small once you break over 42 inches the pictures become blocky.
3. Depending on the dlp you purchase some models the pictures are just as good as plasma look at the Mitsubishi DLP's these have the best picture for a dlp available. I have a WD65734-65" medallion its 1080P. I also have a Toshiba HDA-30 hooked up & the picture beats my 37" Toshiba LCD, my 32" lcd, my Toshiba 50" plasma 1080i & my 30" hd tube. Check these out as bestbuy the picture is amazing. You can pick up a 57" mitts dlp for around $1577.46
4. Plasma's are good TV's but the pictures do degrade over time, the new models are not as bad. Some of your best plasma's are the PDP4280HD these are very nice 1080P but they start at $2048.00, for the money LG makes a very good plasma starting price around $1048.00 for a 42"
5. Plasma TV's are not made under a 42 inch model so any size smaller than that get a lcd.
thanks
billf:
--- Quote from: divemaster127 on December 27, 2007, 11:47:09 am ---...my 37" Toshiba LCD, my 32" lcd, my Toshiba 50" plasma 1080i & my 30" hd tube.
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Damn, you own all of these?
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