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darendt on 13 June 2007
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superchunk said:
darendt said:
superchunk said:
The best TV on the market IMHO is the LCD Samsung. (Sony's LCD screens are also made by Samsung btw).

See the particular one I want @ http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Samsung-40-LCD-HDTV-LN-T4065F/sem/rpsm/oid/175543/catOid/-12867/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

Samsung LN-T4065F.

Oh so very wrong. Sony uses Samsung panels, but the video processing is all Sony, as is the Power regulation for the panel. The Samsung LCDs and Plasmas are OK, but Pioneer kills them on the Plasma front, as does Sony on the LCD front.

Umm I said 'screens' which would be the same thing as 'panels'. I never said Samsung makes thier internal other parts. Just the screen itself. Which means that regardless of the other internal peices it will only look as good as the screen that Samsung built.

Let's see buy a Sony with less features that looks nearly identical for $1000 more. Sure sold.

 


Thats the problem, they look nothing alike. The Sony LCDs kill the Samsung LCDs in terms of picture quality. They may use the same panel, but they process the image much better. The same thing applies to all DLP sets. They use the same texas instrument DMD but vary a great deal in terms of picture quality. The processing is the most important part. LG makes the panels for HP, yet the LG sets look much better than HP. Its all in the processing.

 

 

As for the comments from a previous poster about LCDs and Plasmas using a backlight so there blacks suck.....WHAT?!! Your rear pro Sony has 3 panels that all get there light from a 120-132W halagen bulb....a white one. The reason the black levels are decent is due to the Iris thats built into the lens assembly that is controled by the software in the set. Plasmas have the closest blacks you can get right now. Sony and JVCs rearpros are second to this followed by DLP then LCD. Bottom line though...any SD source will look better on a CRT based TV. Unless you have HD feeding your HD set you are wasting your money.