SD content looks bad on most HDTV, except RP ones (LCoS, DLP, ...). That's because of how they display the image, only RP is near the methods used in theaters, which is closer to the look of SD (softer image). Besides, SD content shows all the defects HDTV have, and the LCD and Plasmas have MANY artefacts and defects, due to the technologies used. SXRD is the technology with the less artefacts for now (but the crown in image quality still goes to plasma).
I replaced my old 52" SDTV (Rear Projection) with a 55" SXRD (RP too) and the SD content now looks BETTER than on my old display. There are two catch though :
- it looks better after calibration, it looked worse before (silk screen effect reared its ugly head immediately). HDTV all comes with default settings that are made to capture your eyes in stores, under neons and the like, delivering a very bad image fidelity, and unbearable to stare at for long.
- I have the european version, which comes with the better engine chip (MFC 2.5), while in the USA, most comes with the 1.x version. The chip does all the deinterlacing and scaling, for example.
Well, this TV is plain amazing, as I didn't think I would say one day that a HDTV would look better than a SDTV for SD content.
But what will be the most annoying, is NOT the image quality. I don't know the Bravia LCD (as I have a Bravia RPTV, which isn't the same thing), but I hope it has a game mode (I think it has). If not, the Wii will just be unplayable, because of the lag induced by the TV.
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