VenusStopsTrain2 Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 If you are seriously considering a tv at Best Buy...and you are nice to your sales person you can ask them to hook up a dvd player and ask them to show you a movie that has different graphics in it..they should be able to do that for you so you can see specific features...and see how high the quality is. I know currently in my store they show parts of Lipstick Jungle..which i walked by several times today and kept thinking it really looked like they were right in the store...as well as a part of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie..which shows you their skin close up and it's sorta scary to me. But ask nice and I bet they would be willing to help you out. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dazzler Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 I'm hoping they call it "H-erDTV" Don't get sucked into the size game. I am very happy with a 32" where everyone tried to sell me a 37"-50". The biggest bonus: the thinner screen has added tremendous size to an oddly shaped room. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tugmoose Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 I would have been tempted to go 37, but the model I was looking as went from 32 to 40. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big Perm Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 and remember, connect all your components via HDMI for maximum picture quality, your cable/satellite box dvd, game console, reciever - whatever - just sayin' cause a few folks I know got a new tv, and didn;t realize they could get even more out of it, and didn;t have their resolution set right on their cable/satellite box, however some are "auto" - blah blah blah- DEAR PERM CALM DOWN! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
VenusStopsTrain2 Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 Because I figure some of you aren't going to run out and buy a tv, I thought I'd help you out by letting you know where you can go to get all you need for your tv to work in Feb 2009. So first off you need to go here for a $40 coupon off your converter box(s). Learn more here. Stores in order of current pricing on boxes (before coupons): Amazon has 1: Magnavox $49.99Wal Mart has 2: Magnavox $52.97 and RCA $49.87Circuit City : Zenith $59.99Best Buy has 1: Insignia $59.99 Target will carry these boxes but not until May, so no price yet. Wal-greens is listed on the coupon but I was unable to find a price online. You can bid on them on Ebay but obviously I don't think they take the coupons. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cryptique Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 The only people who need to do all that ^ are those who watch over-the-air broadcast TV. If you have cable or satellite service, the converter box isn't necessary. ...or so I've been told, repeatedly, by an endless number of PSAs. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZenLunatic Posted April 7, 2008 Share Posted April 7, 2008 The only people who need to do all that ^ are those who watch over-the-air broadcast TV. If you have cable or satellite service, the converter box isn't necessary. ...or so I've been told, repeatedly, by an endless number of PSAs. You have been told correctly. HD blows away what tv was 18 years ago. Maybe since the average screen size has increased dramatically you are sitting too close to huge screens. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Analogman Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 HD enthusiasts crying foul over cable TV's crunched signals By CHRIS WILLIAMS, Associated Press Writer Mon Apr 21, 8:47 AM ET MINNEAPOLIS - In Brent Swanson's basement home theater, there should be nothing drab about "Battlestar Galactica." He's got a high-end projector that beams the picture onto a wall painted like a silver screen, and speakers loom in the corners, flanking two big subwoofers. Yet when he tuned in Sci Fi HD for a recent episode filmed in high definition, the image was soft and the darkest parts broke up into large blocks with no definition. Explosions, he said, were just dull. "It kind of looked like they took the standard definition and just blew it up," said Swanson, a 33-year-old graphic designer and videographer who subscribes to Comcast Corp.'s TV service. "I couldn't really tell if what I was seeing was really better than what I saw on regular television." As cable TV companies pack ever more HD channels into limited bandwidth, some owners of pricey plasma, projector and LCD TVs are complaining that they're not getting the high-def quality they paid for. They blame the increased signal compression being used to squeeze three digital HD signals into the bandwidth of one analog station. The problem is viewers want more HD channels at a time when many cable and satellite providers are at the limits of their capacity, said Jim Willcox, a technology editor for Consumer Reports magazine. "They have to figure out a way to deliver more HD content through their distribution networks," he said. Compressing the signal is cheaper than costly infrastructure upgrades to increase capacity. Satellite TV providers Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markosis Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 why do new TVs suck? Probably because new TV shows suck. There's no point putting out quality TV's if there's nothing good to show on them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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