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HALOOOOOOOO on 23 June 2007

The pairing up thing is stupid, but I agree, nice setup you've got there.



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sieanr on 23 June 2007
KruzeS said:
Xyrax said:
I dont understand, why doesnt it look garbled. It normally would. Anyone want to explain this "tuner"? And how much does it cost

First of all, I highly doubt it'd look noticeably garbled in such low resolution shots, but anyway.

From the looks of it, it's probably one of these receivers: STR-DA5200ES. It comes with a Faroudja DCDi scaler - which basically means uber quality deinterlacing and upscaling. Since it's most likely a better scaler than your TV's internal scaler, it'll look better.

And it isn't expensive at all... after all, it just dropped $200 to $1300.


 There are lots of receivers that use Faroudja chips, many of them lower than $1300, plus there are better scalers available.



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all. 

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Cobretti on 23 June 2007

actually samsung make better TV's then SONY atm. THey are much sharper.

ALso considering they are releasing their new models with even higher contrast ratios will make sony tvs even look worst then they already do against the samsung lcds.



Xyrax on 23 June 2007

$1300?

Yeah......no. Nice though.



shams on 23 June 2007

Just another reason why HD consoles are just not relevant ;) You can get another piece of tech to do the HD'ing for you!

I agree on the Samsung TV point. I actually don't like the Sony sets at all (poor colour, quality, etc..). I have a Phillips set at the moment that I think looks great (and uses 'Natural Motion' tech to upsample the frame rate to 100hz - which looks pretty sweet as well...).

 



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Wii1080p on 23 June 2007

According to CNet, the Bravias > Samsung.



Rath on 23 June 2007

Lets face it, Sony TVs have awesome ads, we might as well give them credit for it by buying the TVs.



z64dan on 23 June 2007

That looks pretty much the same as my wii in 480p on the same size TV. Upscaling doesn't really work that well, you can only stretch the pixels so far.



WiiGirl76 on 24 June 2007
naznatips said:
For those of you who complain about Jaggies on your LCD TVs with your non HD systems, you should have gotten a plasma. I get no Jaggies on my Samsung Plasma. (this isn't a shot a Sony btw, all LCD's create jaggies on non-HD systems)

I'm trying to save energy, not eating it more ;) I guess by saving wasn't the best option then :P And when I bought this TV I was actually planning to buy a Samsung, but as soon as I saw the Sony with a much clearer image and sound I bought it! Ehm silly question, but what are ''jaggies''? Oh and because I'm not fond of Sony Playstation at the moment, that doesn't mean I have to despite the whole company :-/

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ckmlb on 24 June 2007
WiiGirl76 said:
naznatips said:
For those of you who complain about Jaggies on your LCD TVs with your non HD systems, you should have gotten a plasma. I get no Jaggies on my Samsung Plasma. (this isn't a shot a Sony btw, all LCD's create jaggies on non-HD systems)

Ehm silly question, but what are ''jaggies''?

 Angular edges. Sharp angles on the surface of things that shouldn't be there.



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