HD TVs

[brianhoberg]

Man my only issue is that BlueRay is going the way of the dinosaurs and HD-DVD's are becoming the norm. When I bought my system we purchased a sony BluRay to go with it. Now, I'm gonna have to get an HD-DVD player as that seems to be what the adopted format has been now.

 

[champana]

What's this set top box you're talking about? I may just have it built in or something and don't know. I have an HD plasma and run an HD antenna and pick up all local HD stations. Do you mean for running dish?

In the future, you wont rent a set top box from the cable company, you'll rent a card that slides into the back of the tv. It will handle all of your digital cable/ ppv authorizations. The stuff is coming like a train.

 

[noee]

....Computers can do well, but they have a brick wall of a limit.

Are you referring to automation/integration or playback quality?

Now, I'm gonna have to get an HD-DVD player as that seems to be what the adopted format has been now.

Uh...you got it backwards. Sony/BD won, not Toshiba/HD-DVD. The HD-DVD is a completely dead format going foward.

However, BD sales have been lackluster at best, not the bump that was expected, but then, that could be the whole "economy" thing going on. IMO, HD just ain't worth it right now, especially if you have to buy into the Sony crap.

 

[az_max]

Man my only issue is that BlueRay is going the way of the dinosaurs and HD-DVD's are becoming the norm. When I bought my system we purchased a sony BluRay to go with it. Now, I'm gonna have to get an HD-DVD player as that seems to be what the adopted format has been now.

You got it bass-ackward. HD-DVD went the way of the dodo. Sony won this round. However, it's not going gangbusters like they anticipated once the war was won. High player and movie prices seem to be keeping people away.

 

[brianhoberg]

You got it bass-ackward. HD-DVD went the way of the dodo. Sony won this round. However, it's not going gangbusters like they anticipated once the war was won. High player and movie prices seem to be keeping people away.

Yeah you are right. Sadly, I had what I own backwards (goes to show how often I use the damn thing). Need to move to BlueRay but have HD-DVD right now.

 

[kennith]

Man my only issue is that BlueRay is going the way of the dinosaurs and HD-DVD's are becoming the norm. When I bought my system we purchased a sony BluRay to go with it. Now, I'm gonna have to get an HD-DVD player as that seems to be what the adopted format has been now.

You have got it backwards, man. HDDVD lost the fight. Do not invest in the gear or a stack of movies!

I hoped it would win, but it is over. Toshiba admitted defeat publicly, the movies are being pulled from the shelves! Don't buy in to HDDVD anymore.

I can't stand Sony, and I'd never get a Bluray player if I didn't love movies so much. But now, we have to. The format war is over.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[DiscoJen]

I'll throw this out there too. If you take good SD master with a top-notch transfer, like LOTR, get a good $100 video card with DVI/HDMI out (any of the newer ATI and nVidia stuff), hook it up to a Full HD panel at native rez (DVI/HDMI) with true 24P playback (Inverse Telecine and 24Hz refresh, synched audio/video streams) and a modern renderer with correct colorspace conversion (BT601 vs. BT709) and correct luma range (PC[0-255] vs. TV[16-235]), you can make it very difficult to say that the HD source is better.

Get that?

I think an aneurysm just shot out of my eye!

 

[Matt Kendrick]

refresh rate? hello? sports, action movies?

LCD has yet to catch up with plasma here (although getting better). LCD's manage and regulate voltage to keep up with the image resulting in slower refresh rates and ghosting.

to me, the difference is absolutely noticeable.

viewing angles are also still not quite there yet with LCD, but, getting better.

glare's not an issue if you get a plasma with an anti-reflective coating (more and more are now offering).

go plasma, the choice is clear.

 

[kennith]

refresh rate? hello? sports, action movies?

LCD has yet to catch up with plasma here (although getting better). LCD's manage and regulate voltage to keep up with the image resulting in slower refresh rates and ghosting.

to me, the difference is absolutely noticeable.

viewing angles are also still not quite there yet with LCD, but, getting better.

glare's not an issue if you get a plasma with an anti-reflective coating (more and more are now offering).

go plasma, the choice is clear.

I just got a look at a Samsung series 7 LCD, with the blown red glass looking bezel. Thats one of the best LCDs I have seen yet. Motion problems were still there, and it still made Pirates of the Caribbean look like it was shot on Mini DV, but I think a little bit of that could be fixed with adjustments on this one. The 120 Hz thing can tend to make motion a bit cartoony, but I was impressed with the blacks it was producing, being an LCD.

Cheers,

Kennith