new television
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65 inch DLP Mitsubishi WD-65731
My old rear projection HD set started getting some screen burn and was having flickering problems. Felt it was time to move on.
Just set it up late last night. HD cable looks great on it. 360 looks great too. As you can see, DOAX2 is going to break it in very nicely.
Will have to break down and get some kind of HD format disk player to fully take advantage of the 1080p. Just not excited about paying 25 - 30 bucks a disk. I'll probably only buy action movies in that format.
Gotta work on getting a proper table for it to sit on. Eventually gotta get a sound system too since I'm using my roommate's system right now.
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2200 at Fry's. I've been watching this model of television for just under a year now. Been waiting to see if hardware flaws would surface like the Sony SXRD televisions, but they haven't.
Reviews have almost all been excellent with the 731 series and up. (previous models were utter crap, but Mit turned it around with the 731)
Cybroxide: Yeah, that's a superscope back there. I cropped out all the old stuff I have set up in front of our useless fireplace (I live in texas you see...).
swampbug: For the boobies, yeah, but he got himself a pretty badass television. Though, it wasn't what I was looking for when it came to the cost / size equation that I have in my head. Wish I was able to afford a big Bravia though.
How's the projector working for you? I was looking into that tech as well. Wasn't sure if it's what I want for my living room, but I would love to have one for late night cook outs in my backyard.
My brother-in-law had one this weekend and 360 looks so nice on it
Can't wait for the weather to get just a bit warmer at night so I can take to the the starbucks my friends and I chill at on weekends to watch some movies on the side of the building.
It died on me just a few weeks before christmas, so I chose to buy my 46" Sharp Aquos. It's hard to downsize, but the image quality is much better.
I tried the projector for a while... got one free from work's trash. I made my own screen, which gave me a 95" wide screen (don't know the diag measurement). I liked it, but it got washed out easily by other light sources. It didn't work out very well for my living room since I have a huge front window.
It died on me just a few weeks before christmas, so I chose to buy my 46" Sharp Aquos. It's hard to downsize, but the image quality is much better.
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yeah, old outdated business class presentation projectors, especially with ambient light, give horrible image quality. generally they may have ok contrast ratios of 2,000:1 or 3,000:1, but since they are made for presentations if you actually calibrate business class projectors to be made video you usually get a contrast ratio of 600-800:1... which is really washed out colors. not to mention that business class dlp's generally have a 2x colors wheel, which means rbe for most.
i, personally, am waiting for the led dlp projectors to get better, that would be my dream projector... they just have a very low lumen output currently. however since they use led's they are very low in heat, meaning very quite fans, and they don't need a lamp replacement. it might be a while, but i can dream.
1499 Canadian at Futureshop. May have dropped in price by now. I researched this shit for a long time too and Aqous seemed the best for games, if you're looking at LCD tv's for games make sure you buy 37" or above. The smaller sets generally have lower responce times which means ghosting in games. Even though the 34" aqous has the exact same specs as the 37" it is very inferior, bad ghosting and poor calibration features. For LCD sets it appears the bigger set you buy the better quality image you get which is the opposite of what I'm used to on CRT.
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actually, no, the larger you go with lcd's the worse its contrast ratio and other general image quality items are(except for res). the smaller you go the better contrast you will have, this has to do with how lcd's work (which i can go itno more depth if you want to learn). and ghosting has nothing to do with the size, it depends on how they manufacture the screens. just be aware of the response time spec when buying the tv.
This is the one I got from woot.com:
http://store.infocus.com/escalate/store/...e=&tab=desc
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1499 Canadian at Futureshop. May have dropped in price by now. I researched this shit for a long time too and Aqous seemed the best for games, if you're looking at LCD tv's for games make sure you buy 37" or above. The smaller sets generally have lower responce times which means ghosting in games. Even though the 34" aqous has the exact same specs as the 37" it is very inferior, bad ghosting and poor calibration features. For LCD sets it appears the bigger set you buy the better quality image you get which is the opposite of what I'm used to on CRT.
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actually, no, the larger you go with lcd's the worse its contrast ratio and other general image quality items are(except for res). the smaller you go the better contrast you will have, this has to do with how lcd's work (which i can go itno more depth if you want to learn). and ghosting has nothing to do with the size, it depends on how they manufacture the screens. just be aware of the response time spec when buying the tv.
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With the Bravia the contrast ratio is higher on the 40" compared to the 32"
notman, I regularly watch my projector with the lights on... no washout that I've noticed.
This is the one I got from woot.com:
http://store.infocus.com/escalate/store/...e=&tab=desc
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Nice... mine wasn't HD like yours either. I may revisit the projector system later, but I can't bring myself to paying the price for them when I can get the LCD/Plasmas for the same price. Seemed like a lot of work to get my LCD going as opposed to just hanging my LCD on the wall
I do plan on trying to fix my projector again though and setting it up for my kids in the basement. They can't wait to play guitar hero or FF on that screen.
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1499 Canadian at Futureshop. May have dropped in price by now. I researched this shit for a long time too and Aqous seemed the best for games, if you're looking at LCD tv's for games make sure you buy 37" or above. The smaller sets generally have lower responce times which means ghosting in games. Even though the 34" aqous has the exact same specs as the 37" it is very inferior, bad ghosting and poor calibration features. For LCD sets it appears the bigger set you buy the better quality image you get which is the opposite of what I'm used to on CRT.
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actually, no, the larger you go with lcd's the worse its contrast ratio and other general image quality items are(except for res). the smaller you go the better contrast you will have, this has to do with how lcd's work (which i can go itno more depth if you want to learn). and ghosting has nothing to do with the size, it depends on how they manufacture the screens. just be aware of the response time spec when buying the tv.
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With the Bravia the contrast ratio is higher on the 40" compared to the 32"
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i know from what you guys are saying. but size has nothing to do with either spec, it just how they manufacture them.
for example,the KDL-46XBR3
46" BRAVIA XBR® LCD Flat Panel HDTV
KDL-46XBR3
has twice as slow response time as my 19" lcd monitor. while sure my monitor is not a tv, it is the exact same technology, the tv's just has different signal interfaces for tvs.
and to illustrate my second point of contrast ratios, i decided to look around for some info. it seems the cheaper bravias, not really related to size, don't use the "dynamic contrast technology". which really is nothing more than a simple processing system that examines the screen for what is being the displayed at the time, light or dark scenes, and then adjust the lcd backlight brightness accordingly.
an lcd works by taking already horizontal polarized light and then passing it through cells of liquid crystal. the liquid crystal itself forms a polarizer too, which will in turn block a certain amount of the polarized light. however some light still leaks through. so the most common technique for taking care of this is to either cutdown on the light after its passed through the lcd already (Ex. dynamic iris's, found on front projectors), or even better is to cutdown on the source light before it even becomes polarized, like the bravias. but both have their weaknesses because each technique looks at the scene as a whole and will adjust the light to be less if its a dark scene and adjust it to be more if its a light scene... but if the scene contains both bright and dark content the advantage is lost and full light is let passed.
so, it is really how they're built and with what features rather than the size.
I've stuck with Sony TVs for 10 years and I'm always really happy with them.
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Hell yeah. In the last decade, I've bought a 20" trinitron, a 36" first-gen WEGA, a 32" third-gen WEGA and a 50" first-gen Grand WEGA SXRD. Everyone has been a kickass display.