bought one a short while ago (traded in an 11 year-old Philco) and went
semi-all out: a 34" Samsung HD. Cost about $1200, but we could have easily
spent $6,000 - and that's not even going plasma.
Even the non-HD models are just too damn expensive.
Jim Davis
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From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:16 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: HD Tee vees..
> Okay. They're still about 5-10x more expensive than a TV
> should be IMO. Whether you consider that worth paying is up to you.
Yeep
Our 51" Wide Screen, Rear Projection HDTV cost us $1,400
So, if it was 5x cheaper, then it'd be $300!!! Hell, if I could buy a
51" non HD screen for $300, then I'd buy about 20 of them!!!
10x cheaper? Hell, I can't even buy a 24" TV for $150 these days, how am
I meant to get a 51" for that? <g>
> An "HDTV Ready" TV has everything except the ability to pick
> up the signal, so that will need an external tuner box.
Erm, our TV has all the same tuners and stuff as a regular TV, it can
run a regular signal if you want...
> By the way, DVDs aren't HD. They'll look better on an hdtv
> though than on a standard analog tv. Also make sure you use a
> progressive scan dvd player for best quality.
That's if your TV supports Progressive Scan
For those who don't know; Progressive Scan is where it only updates the
bits that have changed on the screen, it sends different signals to the
TV of the "updates" rather than the whole picture...
> The quality of cable tv on a big hdtv may not be to your
> liking. I'm not sure about how things are in TT, but most
> cable companies, even those with digital cable, still use
> analog for the majority of the lower channels. Displaying
> this on a big hdtv means that the image will be "upconverted"
> to the HD resolution, but it won't be true HD. Even if your
> cable company offers HD on their cable, you may not really
> get it unless you can connect the cable tuner with component cables.
We have a HD box, we get HD channels... Guesss what - they're in HD!
Regular channels look better when run through the coax cable, but when
we are watching the HD channels, we switch to the HD input
> Another thing to consider is that digital cable is completely
> different than digital broadcast. Almost no HDTV on the
> market will tune digital cable, even if it has a built in
> tuner. It will only pick up the over the air digital signal.
/me looks at the HDTV in front of him that's running digital cable
So, what's that then? <g>
> Personally, the HDTVs are still too expensive. Especially
> since they can't (yet) tune digital cable and I don't watch
> any network TV.
Ours was fine, and the digital cable works perfectly on it... In fact,
because the TV is so big, when not in HD, it still looks DAMN good
Just don't go Plasma, and it's not bad for cost - a CRT or Rear
Projection HDTV are still reasonable, but it's the "new" technology
which has the price issues
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