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[Tramspotter]

Originally Posted by CoasterMatt

We've got a 42" LG High Def CRT - professionally calibrated, and I couldn't be happier (it fits the room nicely, and is absolutely beautiful)

CRT's are the best looking but like plasma's they have a finite tube/gas life to them. and the calibration drifts =)

LCD's are sharp good for computer text or gaming that you want to be close up into but have discreet pixles that can cause artifacting. The backlight can't be replaced on some models and individual pixle burnouts can't either.

Plasmas are more like a CRT in color depth they have a finite life and just start looking worse and worse color wise. out of the box they dont track that well and cant be fully calibrated to color or reach the deep blacks that a CRT can. Burn in is still a real problem dispite some tricks such as average picture level grey bars and pillars that make it fare better. But leave a videogame plugged in all day and you will have problems plus the picture looks better further away so using it for videogames probably not a good idea.

I have a rear Projection DLP TV and the bastard roomate gets more use than I do out of it he is running that lamp ragged. Picture looks wonderful in true HD like ass with Standard def. And glare is a real problem I added thick drapes because of this. Some people notice a rainbow effect from DLP and those people should never buy one as it will drive em nuts! (The related joke seems familiar GD I think I told it to you or vice versa in line for POTC) anyhow

DLP Projector on the wall would have been a far better way for me to go I have seen it at a number of freinds houses and its just seems fun.

BTW new technologys are quite a way away and CRT's especily HD CRT's are just not being produced by the best MFRGRs anymore due to enviromental regulations by the EU.

Nano tubes that will be phospher based and SED technology also OLED's exist but only as prototypes and raritys they still need to work out the details and make them cheap enough to bring the price to where people will buy one and not settle for LCD.

last two cents HD rollout in the states has been completely horrible consuber electronic side and content side and the bandwith redistrabution a travisty....

[CoasterMatt]

Originally Posted by Tramspotter

last two cents HD rollout in the states has been completely horrible consuber electronic side and content side and the bandwith redistrabution a travisty....

Amen to that, brother.

[Moonliner]

I see TV's like operating systems. The last link in the chain. I always start with what work I need to do, look for the best applications for that job and then the best OS to run those applications.

With TV's I like my movies and that's the "job" I'm looking to accomplish. So far the "programs" to watch movies (HD and Blue-ray) both stink, so I'm not even looking at the "operating system" (tv) yet.