HappySqurriel on 18 February 2007
Kwaad said:
Once agian. It's not the DeInterlaceing chip. No chip does it right.
It has like a 25% chance to screw the image up. Wether it's sony, or some cheap ass brand. The problem is in the broadcast. Not the chip.
HDTVs will do their biggest price drop this year.
And on my 40inch screen I can tell the diffrence from SD to 720p from 10 feet away. Easy.
my point is. Buying a HDTV fall/winter 2007 is practical. HDTVs dont cost THAT much more than SDTVs now.
50inch cheapass SDTV. ~800$
50inch cheapass HDTV. ~800$
(not panel)
And any screen smaller than 20" is useless for HDTV.
A good 24 inch Sony SDTV, will cost 300$
A good 23inch LCD HDTV will cost you ~600$.
A cheapass 21inch LCD SDTV will run you 250$.
I have seen a 28inch SDTV panel sell for over 600$.
HDTVs are about as cheap as they will get. As for image quality they will continue to get better. But that isnt gonna stop in 2 years... or 5 years... or 10 years.
http://hhgregg.com/
I got my TV from there.
First off I think your numbers are way off as you can buy a 20 inch tube tv for $125 ( http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7601008&type=product&productCategoryId=pcmcat95100050007&id=1130981752875 ) and the $800 23 inch LCD TVs are all 720p meaning they're not that good of a HDTV.
Besides that people don't know (or care) what there signal is comming in at currently, and probably won't know or care until they have abandoned DVD and Cable/Digital TV for HD-DVD and HDTV cable; something that probably won't happen intil 2010.
I have a (1080i/720p) HDTV, and I have the available 5 HDTV channels (which mostly broadcast in 480p) and, although HDTV is really nice, after 1 minute of playing a game/DVD I don't notice the quality of the image because I deal with that image quality all the time.
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