arbilab
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Most everyone already made this transition. I waited until my tuber started folding over on the top and NEEDED replacement. A couple weeks ago. Got a Sony 32, anything bigger would block the bedroom door in my HUD geezer poorhouse apt. By switching wires around it will also play DVD in component mode and VHS in composite mode, as well as cablebox HDMI and antenna. Many/most will not do all that.
'Retail' was $350, I paid $300 including tax and stuff you're supposed to buy like cables. From a mom/pop SONY store. Looked at some of the box houses online, they wouldn't tell me what the inputs were. It mattered.
Well now I can read not only the cable guide which Charter recently scrunched down to illegible on SD, but also the drug warnings on commercials which occupy almost half of cable airtime. But guess what? Three Stooges films actually have EDGES. Not to mention the ability to closely approximate newscasters' pore diameters in fractional millimeters.
Overall I'm quite pleased. Much less squinting. I can read Nurse Rached's badge on Cuckoo's Nest, though of course nobody needed to. Virtually all that squirrely NTSC aliasing on fine detail like ties is gone, even on shows originally recorded in NTSC. I dunno zackly how they do that.
Not all the trans-format artifacts are gone. Sometimes, filling the screen gives you fat people. There are pan/scan versions of widescreen movies that really don't look right no matter which button I push. Mostly I just leave it on 'full' and let the black bars fall where they may.
With LED backlighting, all the fluorescent gamut artifacts are gone. That was a big colorimetry hurdle for flatpanels, particularly since the biggest gaps fell within the fleshtone range.
As the guy who spent most of the 80s defining colorimetry for half of Oklahoma, I expected to have more bones to pick with digital/flatpanel displays. Maybe I waited just long enough.
'Retail' was $350, I paid $300 including tax and stuff you're supposed to buy like cables. From a mom/pop SONY store. Looked at some of the box houses online, they wouldn't tell me what the inputs were. It mattered.
Well now I can read not only the cable guide which Charter recently scrunched down to illegible on SD, but also the drug warnings on commercials which occupy almost half of cable airtime. But guess what? Three Stooges films actually have EDGES. Not to mention the ability to closely approximate newscasters' pore diameters in fractional millimeters.
Overall I'm quite pleased. Much less squinting. I can read Nurse Rached's badge on Cuckoo's Nest, though of course nobody needed to. Virtually all that squirrely NTSC aliasing on fine detail like ties is gone, even on shows originally recorded in NTSC. I dunno zackly how they do that.
Not all the trans-format artifacts are gone. Sometimes, filling the screen gives you fat people. There are pan/scan versions of widescreen movies that really don't look right no matter which button I push. Mostly I just leave it on 'full' and let the black bars fall where they may.
With LED backlighting, all the fluorescent gamut artifacts are gone. That was a big colorimetry hurdle for flatpanels, particularly since the biggest gaps fell within the fleshtone range.
As the guy who spent most of the 80s defining colorimetry for half of Oklahoma, I expected to have more bones to pick with digital/flatpanel displays. Maybe I waited just long enough.
my main flat TVs are a couple 2010 42" plasmas
ne Panasonic the other sanyo,both have been good though the Panasonic has a little "burn"at top and bottom from store display,but not noticeable while watching.The TV I watch the most is my big 1982 zenith"space command"console:Once, when my brother came over on vacation,i noticed he kinda smirked at the sight of that big,old,'70s style tv,but all negative sentiment about it disappeared as soon as I turned it on-colors,picture and sound very good for such a dated looking set 
