Help with buying a HDTV

[CrazedCat 10+ year member]

I'm a fanatic when it comes to this stuff and right now you can't beat the Sony XBR series lcds. I have the 46" and the 40".

Look into the Sony 40" XBR2.

If you game a lot (and possibly upgrade to the Elite xbox down the road) you can take advantage of it's HDMI when games start coming out at 1080p.

 

[99gtxgolfer 10+ year member]

SWEET!! nice tv and ive been thinking of buying a wii how fun are they?

oh yah heres a screen shot of my tv playing a blu ray movie.

the wii is pretty adictive //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif :naughty: //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

ask 9512ds he likes to play with my wii //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

 

[96civ 10+ year member]

Not even remotely close to the same ... I prefer LCD for gaming, though (as long as it's a good panel) ...

Where's your proof? I've seen quite a few reviews between top-of-the-line LCD screens and top-of-the-line DLP screens and the only variable that they differed in was contrast.

 

[Chevyaudio 5,000+ posts]

The technology is totally different between LCD and DLP.

DLP is a rear projection style display, hence they aren't flat panels, where as the LCD TV's are flat pannels.

not the same stuff.

I too am in the market for a new TV. Another word of advice, try some of the smaller more personal stores for your auditions. Big Box stores like Bestbuy have 1 or 2 video sources for 200 TVs. The signal gets split down so many times that the picture quality suffers. So its hard to tell what looks best. There are a few individual displays where a TV is hooked to an HD DVD player or a Blu-Ray player, those displays can show you a TV's performance as well.

 

[docutech 10+ year member]

Stay away from the DLP's and Plasma.

Go for LCD, period. Sharp and Samsung are great. I own a Samsung LCD (LNS5296) and love it! Pay a little more now but be satisfied with it!

 

[btnhfan 5,000+ posts]

I have an olevia and love it.

IIRC they are made by Samsung.

 

[coreyjerome 10+ year member]

olevia is made by the Syntax-Brillian corp the same company that make the crappy vivitar cameras. I sell tv's for a living so if anyone has any questions pm me.