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posted December 18, 2002 06:46 PM
Help.. need info on buying a Big-Ass TV
If I wanted to buy a big-ass TV (say a rear projection HD model).... what would I look fer? Went looking today and they were all kinda confusing....
someone edjumacate me pleez!
   
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posted December 18, 2002 06:58 PM
That Mitsubishi 65" HDTV is freaking INSANE.
Buddy has one...dual tuners...and you can even split the screen in half and watch different things on each side.
If I ever replace my Samsung 56"....ill be getting that one!
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posted December 18, 2002 07:01 PM
this is a rear projection unit?
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posted December 18, 2002 07:39 PM
Dude...Have you done a search?
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posted December 18, 2002 08:34 PM
I have a 710 Pioneer Elite. HD etc. It is a kick ass TV. That said it cost about $7,000. And there are occasins you find them cheaper. I have yet to see a TV with a better screen at 64". Go to an upper end stereo and TV place let the sales people educate you.
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posted December 19, 2002 08:07 AM
thx z... and yes swft.. but that was a year ago.... since then a lot has happened and I have erased all of the info from my brain.
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posted December 19, 2002 08:40 AM
I went the route Ted G went, except I bought the 57" Sony HD widescreen. Its now the lady of the house, never complains, always looks her best and she is easy to turn on! Really, its a great TV. But it was a close race between it and the Ultravision by Hitachi
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posted December 19, 2002 09:43 AM
I got the 65" Sony HDTV and it is unbelievable, I watched Star Wars II last night on it in widescreen and the picture made the theater look second rate. Unreal. Alot of the things that make this a good TV is the way that it handles the 3:2 pulldown, if the DVD player if not progressive scan the TV will do it for you by combining the the 2 (or 3) interlaced frames and turing them into one full frame. I am sure that the major brands all are awesome, but I just went by picture quality with the same source, when a crappy source was used they all exibited the same tendency to really show you the defects. But when the souce was quality, the Sony was much better at displaying motion without that twitter and the artifacts. Color saturation seemed better and there wasn't the smearing of colors (especially around the edges of the screen). I am very pleased. Now that I have been watching it for a while, I look at the other TV in the store and have a good reference, I know I made the right choice. Good luck. Also look at the black horozontal line that most TVs display they are almost non existant in this Sony. Make sure you get a HDTV monitor, not one with a built in HDTV reciever, unless you are dead sure that it will work with your source. Now start reading about cables..talk about make your head swim.
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posted December 19, 2002 11:58 AM
i think u need that new 60" HDTV plasma screen by zenith they'v been advertising of late while yer all rich & stuff 
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posted December 19, 2002 12:23 PM
 Edited By: ZHooligan on 20 Dec 2002 14:10
Wait a year on the Plasma. Prices are coming down significantly. There are all kinds of brands but only 4 manufactures.
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posted December 20, 2002 01:58 PM
Edited By: frEEk on 21 Dec 2002 00:16
http://www.labusas.org/albums/TedG/Dsc00062.jpg
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posted December 20, 2002 01:59 PM
Edited By: TedG on 20 Dec 2002 14:01
I don't know why that picture won't post. The link is correct.
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posted December 20, 2002 03:00 PM
DAMN thats big! i assume lab doesn't allow linking of their pics.
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posted December 20, 2002 03:15 PM
Edited By: TedG on 20 Dec 2002 15:22
It seems that if you go to properties and copy the link then paste it into the address bar it shows up. After that it shows up here. Something about this board. When I made a link to it from here it said forbidden.
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posted December 20, 2002 05:08 PM
it isnt forbidden... you have to use the "url" command (see faq) ... auto-linking is disabled as it opens a security loophole in the software (another reason why we dont go down... )
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posted December 21, 2002 12:14 AM
no, it's not that linking is disabled on our side, it's on the LAB side. it's common practice to disallow displaying an image on someone else's site. considered bandwidth theft in many cases (or when used with that intention). the "url" command is indeed the correct way to deal with the issue tho.
btw, it comes up after because ur browser has the image cached, so doesnt bother asking the server for it anymore.
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posted December 21, 2002 12:16 AM
aw crap, they have referrer protection enabled too, so u can't even follow a link to the pic. will have to cut n paste the url.
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posted December 21, 2002 01:06 AM
Edited By: ZHooligan on 21 Dec 2002 08:39
Hey Ted... how many stations or channels are transmitting a HD signal in your neck of the woods? We only get about 5 local and Satelite. It is slowly improving but still damn few.
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posted December 21, 2002 03:38 AM
Pay special attention to the upconverter. In the store they don't show you standard signals upconverted to HD resolution. This is where some manufacturers cut costs and it shows when watching standard signals...have you ever seen someones eyebrows crawling around thier face?
Here's a couple of pics of my set up. It's a 106" front projection screen with a Yamaha DLP projector.
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posted December 21, 2002 09:27 AM
wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! are we coming over fer the holdiays????
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posted December 21, 2002 06:03 PM
quote:
Hey Ted... how many stations or channels are transmitting a HD signal in your neck of the woods? We only get about 5 local and Satelite. It is slowly improving but still damn few.
We have a whopping ZERO!!! Eventually we will get some, right now I need the resolution for DVDs.
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