lol CNet gets paid to say things.

I know people will flame me for this but ever since playstation come out sonys other products lacked in quality.

As i said befor samesung tvs kill the bravia series in everything. Contrast Ratio, sharpness, brightness. To think new models are comnig in september that have beefed up those stats even more will make the bravia look like a joke.

Sony makes good TVs, Laptops and a variety of other electronics. Unfortunately many people including myself aren't a fan of their overarching business ethics, their work with Blu-Ray and the Playstation division. I'm not fond of the 360 either but I still use Windows on my comptuer.

Sony Laptops are suppossedly not so great. I've been adviced never to buy a Sony Laptop, therefore I have other brands, a Fujitsu Siemens and Hewlet Packard. Last one is really great, unfortunate mine hasn't got a speaker input which makes it impossible to grab from my consoles with a good and clear sound.

It's been years since I did anything IT (and happy about that fact) but when I did, Sony did in fact have the crappiest computers out there. I don't really know if they've cleaned up their act any since I generally build my own (except laptops) but the Vaio or however you spell it was a flaming piece of crap.

Sony TVs aren't BAD, I just personally think I got a lot more for my money out of my samsung. The most important thing to me as a dedicated gamer is that I don't get jaggies on my PS2, GC, and Wii games, which would annoy me. There are some opinion factors involved in what TV to get.

Well if you are using composite cable you are not getting 480P. You are getting 480i. Comonent cables are the only way to get Analog Progressive scan.

There shouldn't be much difference between Sony and Samsung TVs as they use the same technology. Also, I've never heard of VAIOs being crap, although they are really expensive, but that's more to do with the Apple Mac, fashion statement thing. Seriously if you've seen the design of a VAIO desktop, they are definately designed to look good.

What I don't understand is how 'jaggies' appear anyway...

Cobretti, you are just plain wrong.

And this comes from someone that hate Sony for its shoddy quality products (people around me actually were shocked to hear me say I was going to buy a Sony TV).

But the fact is that their SXRD RPTV series (NOT the LCD, which must be what you are talking about), are one of the best HDTV around (again, the Pioneer Elite are the best, but 3-4 times the price).

What makes them even better, is that they are far better than every other HD display (except Pioneer Elite plasmas) to display SD content, for now at least. You will notice SD content doesn't look good on any LCD or plasma. RPTV technology has this softness that makes the SD content look even better than on SDTV or EDTV.

And yes, Samsung makes some of the best LCD, but they are no better than the SXRD RPTV ones. Perhaps better than the LCD SXRD, which suffer from all the usual LCD flaws, like banding, screendoor (all LCD have space between pixels, making them a no-no for SD content, while SXRD RPTV have NO space between pixels, even if you put your nose on the screen), very bad black level (this one alone destroys your argument of comparison against SXRD RPTV), dead pixels, high real latency, contrast ratio, ...

But, I'll agree with you that personal preference in image can be different, so some people will prefer the HD look of LCD (I prefer the HD movie image type).

But we're discussing SD content here (the Wii), and there's just no comparison. Unless you use a scaler like shown here, where the final result is very good.

ookaze i bought a lcd HD TV. there are no jaggies on my samsung.

I do agree with you that plasma is better then LCD in some aspects. However LCD gives the better sharpenes hence why i chose it.

However the new models from samsung coming in september with faster refresh rate, bigger contrast ratio, brighter apprently will be in the same league if not better then plasmas (we shall see).

Also you cannot compare the contrast ratio directly between LCD and plasma cause they use a different scale based on the matierals they use in the technology.

When i made the comparrison it was against sony's LCD tvs.

I clicked the link but nothing was there :(

Show me screens of this Wii magic!