On Friday 09 September 2005 23:14, Devan Lippman wrote: > On 9/9/05, Brandon Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 03:51:05PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > Personally, I think plasmas are a bad choice and LCD has too slow of a > > pixel response time.
No issues here with the new 37" 1080p LCD set I just bought... > > DLP is by far my choice for best picture. Single > > unit (rear projection) units use projectors in them anyway. I find the > > fact that the viewing able is critical in them so the image isn't too > > dark from a side, or when sitting on the floor. A projector and screen > > give much better results for view angle. Thought about a projector, but there just really isn't a way for it to work where I've got my TV now. I've had the LCD a week now, and it blows the doors off my old rear-projection set. Its damned sweet, no misgivings about getting it. Works especially peachy for MythTV -- feeding it a true 1080p signal via DVI. > Save your money for OLED, prolly one to two years away but I'm guessing > with all the money dumped into the TFT Fabs the same companies are gonna > keep the price point high on the OLEDs. The nice thing about them however > is they are an active device so they control the light emitted (almost 100% > energy efficient too so low on heat) rather than filtering it like LCD so > you get incredible viewing angles and fantastic contrast (I think they were > saying something like 5000:1 for contrast and a brightness of 600 nits). > Its also pretty fast and super thin. Once they get these babies lasting > 30000 hrs plus I don't think there'll be much to compete. In fact I might > have seen the link here talking about Samsung getting ready to release a > 40" or 50" model thats 3" deep! Of course you can save for something better down the road, technology is always improving, whatever you buy today is obsolete, but I choose to spend now, and be happy today. :) -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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