New TV Help...

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Hey Oracle, how are you, how is your Sunday going? Mine is going good...

Enough with the small talk, I need your help

I am moving into my new house and that mean I get to buy a nice new TV


I am a stupid Jew who loves TV but doesn't know which one to buy


I have from $800- $1100 to spend

I want a 42' or larger, LCD is what I am told, but open to Plasma if I can be sold on it

1080 i or 1080 p I heard is the norm now

Now what are these Hz and are they important in selecting a TV?

Please help me, football season is near.........

[Gvac]

Save your money and listen to the games on the radio.

And you claim to be Jewish...:nono:

[King Hippos Bandaid]

Save your money and listen to the games on the radio.

And you claim to be Jewish...:nono:


Ray D oh, whats a Ray d oh


I thought they were destroyed during Y2K


I have an erection thinking about my new TV

[sailor]

I am a stupid Jew

nice

[ChrisTheCop]

I have an "InFocus" hd projector, and love it. Nice big 69" image up there.
You can get one in your price range too.

Amazing for baseball games, movies, and xbox!!

Warning, it's better at night or in a darkened room, and you need a big room (The farther the projector is from the wall, the bigger the picture).

Congrats on the house, and good luck on your decision.

[ThePointer]

Congrats and good luck in your new abode. May you and your wife be blessed with many children so you won't be able to think of televisoion much.

[Charlie_Don't_Surf]

Hey Oracle, how are you, how is your Sunday going? Mine is going good...

Enough with the small talk, I need your help

I am moving into my new house and that mean I get to buy a nice new TV


I am a stupid Jew who loves TV but doesn't know which one to buy


I have from $800- $1100 to spend

I want a 42' or larger, LCD is what I am told, but open to Plasma if I can be sold on it

1080 i or 1080 p I heard is the norm now

Now what are these Hz and are they important in selecting a TV?

Please help me, football season is near.........

Hz is a measurement of frequency, in the case of a tv it is the number of frames per second the tv can display. Some new tvs have 120Hz displays and the image on those is superior in my opinion.

[mikeyboy]

Make sure you get one that has a VCR built in.

http://www.symphonic.us/products/tvcr/img/main.jpg

[boosterp]

Check out Vizio. They are consistently rated as the best bang for the buck by independent sources.

120hz is becoming a standard and will minimize any blurring. But, if you play games or watch movies on your computer monitor it would be hard to see blurring and computer monitors are usually in the 65 to 75hz range. It is up to you how much you want to spend and how long you want this TV before upgrading.

Plasma is still around and you can get good deals on a set. Plasma stll offers the best grayscale (black to white pictures) which in dark scenes of movies you can tell a difference.

[LordJezo]

Vizio if you are on a budget, always rated best for the money.

Samsung if you have a bit more to spend, seems like everyone is getting them these days and they all look damn good.

http://www.avsforum.com/ if you really want to get serious and do some hardcore research and comparison.

[Devo37]

at 42", you could get a 720 without much noticeable difference over 1080.

progressive scan is better than interlaced for fast-moving images, such as sports. and football season is coming...

there's also the matter of how far away your couch is from the tv, which is what this chart (http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/12/09/1080p-charted-viewing-distance-to-screen-size/)is all about.

[KC2OSO]

Samsung if you have a bit more to spend, seems like everyone is getting them these days and they all look damn good.

We've had a good experience with them so far and we're 4 years into one Samsung CRT unit and 2 years into another Samsung flat panel.

As far as service contracts go, I've been getting at least the minimum and re-upping as we go along. There's *pretty much* no such thing as TV repair anymore so if things do go south, it's either the warranty/replace or buy a new one.

[monkfish]

If it is for a room with no/little glare from outside windows then plasma would be ideal - better for fast moving images (like sports.)

If there's going to be any significant glare, I have had great luck with Samsung and Sharp LCDs (Sharp audio quality has taken a big hit in their newer models (thinner builds, smaller speakers) - a non-issue if you'll be running audio through a receiver.

For a 42" tv for me 1080p would be a nice to have but not a deal breaker. Anything larger and it would be a dealbreaker.

I've had a 60Hz Sharp 52" and 120 Hz Sharp 52" and couldn't tell any difference. Dunno.

[Charlie_Don't_Surf]

Check out Vizio. They are consistently rated as the best bang for the buck by independent sources.

120hz is becoming a standard and will minimize any blurring. But, if you play games or watch movies on your computer monitor it would be hard to see blurring and computer monitors are usually in the 65 to 75hz range. It is up to you how much you want to spend and how long you want this TV before upgrading.

Plasma is still around and you can get good deals on a set. Plasma stll offers the best grayscale (black to white pictures) which in dark scenes of movies you can tell a difference.

Can't you overcome the LCD inability to display blacks with some lighting techniques, like two dim column lamps on either side of the TV. They won't be bright enough to distract and they light difference should make the blacks look deeper. Or you could turn down the brightness and make sure the TV is in an area that can be dark when you want it to.

[boosterp]

Can't you overcome the LCD inability to display blacks with some lighting techniques, like two dim column lamps on either side of the TV. They won't be bright enough to distract and they light difference should make the blacks look deeper. Or you could turn down the brightness and make sure the TV is in an area that can be dark when you want it to.

Some of the panels are now coming with photosensors (light) that will darken or lighten automatically. If you are worried about getting the right picture in a lit situation such as glare or sunlight look for higher contrast ratios. Also, LED tech is replacing the bulb that the older sets have so you have a longer lasting and more even picture. The main thing to remember is Samsung leads right now in quality versus price but the Sony (I hate sony) have a great picture at more money. Another thing to remember is that there are only 4 major factories putting out panels. One in Taiwan, 1 on mainland China, the cheapest is in Malaysia, and I forget where the 4th is Japan I think.

This means that many sets have the same panel, but this does not mean they have the same video processors. Farudia out of Japan makes a great HDTV chip, but there are others about 7 or 8 that make good quality chips. Then you have you Westinghouse, etc cheep sets that use a good panel but low quality chips.

[Thomas Merton]

Wow, i just bought a house too and had the exact question

Buying a house was more work than I expected