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Pyramid Head on 14 May 2009
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Congrats :p . I've had my 42 " 1080P Sony Bravia for 18 Months now. It still amazes me :p

you've made me feel sad nao. T.T you higher end mofo. :P

lol. What make and model did you get?

Element - 32 " - 720p only had for about a 3 to 4 days.

I dont know the brand but its really nice imo. plus i heard 720p is fine for most games unless its exclusive so..

lol, cheapo.

That's a Circuit City brand HD television. Enjoy it!

:O thats just mean.....

I didn't mean it that way. I worked at CC until they closed down, so I have good history with Element.

:P thing is i didn't pay a dime, my dad did.

How is Element Outlaw? i like the name, it sounds cool, but hows the overall quality compared to other HDTV's?

Well, standalone it's not bad at all!

Do you want a real answer comparing to other HDTVs?

Yeah... >_>

It's comparable to Vizio. I'll stop there.

I just read reviews about the brand, and this quote was used the most. " In general, their features are slightly above average" so thats good enough for me imo.

Again, i didn't buy it, my dad did for me so i put out no money lol, i'll pick up a Sony for me later on down the line when i can. :P

Elements overall quality represents a good value when taking into account its price (much like Vizio as the person above stated). Longevity is what worries me with "budget" companies. Keep us posted. My Samsung 40'' LCD and I just celebrated our two year anniversary not too long ago and its still trucking. Its far outclassed by now with Samsungs amazing new TVs but thats  to be expected. Just remember: Even if you buy the best, highest end product from a recognizable brand it'll no longer be amazing comparitively within a year.

 

@Bolded 1 - So that means my HD has a higher chances of breaking then other HDTV's? :(

@Bolded 2 -  So...its damn if ya do damn if ya dont? or ... ?

 

 

Don't worry about your TVs build quality. As long as it doesnt say "Made in Taiwan" on the back you're fine. There was a budget brand, Protron, not too long ago that had cheap Taiwanese parts and after a year they all started dropping like flies. ShopNBC was promoting the brand and had to fire the guy who represented the company and face huge backlash from customers. This isnt cherry picking I swear:

http://www.epinions.com/content_215361425028

 

And for the second thing you bolded: Its technology. Just like computers become quickly outdated, so will TVs. People will come over and the first question they ask is "Is it 1080P?" which really irritates me because it really doesnt matter until you hit 46''. Either way, an awesome TV today is an average TV tomorrow. So it goes.

@1- Ahh i see, you know you're tech lol. and i looked in the back it says "Made in China" so im in the clear of that, and i take care of all my gear so. :P

@2. lol yeah true, so 1080p doesn't matter UNTIL its above 46"? if so i'll keep that in mind when ever i go looking for a 1080 HD'er.

 

Yeah under 46'' doesnt matter unless you sit like 3 feet away from the TV, which imo is insane for some neck strain (oh yay a rhyme). Pixel density is just too much at smaller sizes to tell a big enough difference to justify the cost.

 

Mmm i see, thanks for all the info man!

Btw, how would a PS2 fair on an HDTV? i still have a slim model from around when they first came out, and still have alot of games i'd like to play on it, even though my PS3 has backwards its HD only imo, same goes for the 360.

I heared somewhere lastgen consoles FUCK up HDTV's but how can that be? when so many people who own the Wii also have HDTV's.. (as stupid as that is since wii is SD -_-)

 

as long as you roll with component or hdmi it should look as good as wii connected the same way

so slightly blurry but nothing too bad, still beats SD

i have wii, ps2, and old zboz hooked up to my samsung, and all three are just fine with old gen graphics

 



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selnor on 14 May 2009

One thing that was hard for me, was after playing in HD and seeing it's beauty. It was hard to take the Wii seriously. It's like you need correction glasses playing a wii after PS360.



Killergran on 14 May 2009

For gods sake people, stop overquoting.
I remember going from playing Half-Life in 640*480 to 1024*768 with twice the framerate. What an experience. That's 10 years ago now though, and I have since lost most enthusiasm when it comes to graphics.



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el_rika on 14 May 2009

First time i saw Uncharted on a HDTV (after playing it like 3 times on my old Philips SDTV) i was speechless. I mean, THAT SPINING COIN AT THE BEGINING HAD DETAILS AND WRITING ON IT ?!?! OMG !!!!!



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Pristine20 on 14 May 2009
Killergran said:
For gods sake people, stop overquoting.
I remember going from playing Half-Life in 640*480 to 1024*768 with twice the framerate. What an experience. That's 10 years ago now though, and I have since lost most enthusiasm when it comes to graphics.

 

 So why does that mean the rest of us are overquoting? Your sentiments don't always apply to others



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Killergran on 14 May 2009
Pristine20 said:

 So why does that mean the rest of us are overquoting? Your sentiments don't always apply to others

I think you misunderstood me. Quotes that extends 10 posts back are not needed, horrible to look at and takes longer to load. It has nothing to do with the rest of my post.

Example of an 18 layer quote in this thread.



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Pristine20 on 14 May 2009
Killergran said:
Pristine20 said:

 So why does that mean the rest of us are overquoting? Your sentiments don't always apply to others

I think you misunderstood me. Quotes that extends 10 posts back are not needed, horrible to look at and takes longer to load. It has nothing to do with the rest of my post.

Example of an 18 layer quote in this thread.

I understand now lol. I apologize for jumping into conclusions

 



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"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

pbroy on 14 May 2009

Ohh yeah, I forgot about the Dreamcast VGA. That was my first taste of HD gaming on a console. I never wanted to go back. The graphics were freaken awesome. I never looked at gaming the same way again after that. That was the main reason why I jumped into the last gen so late. It made me sad that the other consoles didn't have VGA outputs. That's until HDTVs came out and I saw that the Xbox could do 720p on Xmen. My intrest in gaming came back.

The Dreamcast was really ahead of it's time. First HD console. First console with built in internet. Gaming went backwards for a bit there after it died. Now everyone is pretty much on the same page.







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PullusPardus on 14 May 2009

..... eh. it pains my head to play on SD cause of the freaking text.
but i cant afford an HD t.v now maybe years later >.



Esa-Petteri on 14 May 2009

SD-games look like trash on my 52" tv. I am trying my best to enjoy them but it is quite hard. :)