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AkumaX Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Total posts: 496 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| robx wrote: | | In one of my response i have said i am currently using Comcast and possibly will still be with comcast later still. |
Do you have Comcast Digital Cable or Analog Cable? I think you can kinda see where I'm going with this...
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StealthGnomeJoined: 23 Dec 2007 Total posts: 82 Location: San Francisco, CA Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:55 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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Older models are cheaper because they don't have QAM tuners, making them "HD-Ready" and not a HDTV.
Make sure you get one with a QAM Tuner! This gets over the air HD signals. Don't worry about 1080i on such a small TV. 720p is fine. Don't worry about the whole Digital Cable '09 gimmick. It mainly effects satellites and a box can be bought for <$10 after a government coupon ($40 off, 2 per household).
If you want a good, reliable brand, get the Sony 26" Bravia M-Series ($650). Newly manufactured and I've heard it looks quite nice.
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=7080278
This Samsung 23" is on sale for $540
http://www.circuitcity.com/rpsm/oid/173619/catOid/-12869/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
My sister bought a Samsung 23" HD-Ready (No QAM) TV and the regular channels don't look as good on a CRT TV and doesn't get any HD channels.
Many lower quality brands use lower quality LCDs and parts (believe it or not) which may result in a lower life span of your TV. Visio for example, Their 42" TV sold at Costco has a loud bussing sound common humming from the back reported by many people on the AVS forums.
I'd stick with Sony, Samsung, and Sharp.
If you're in no hurry, waiting a few months can save you $100. LCD TV prices are always dropping. I don't think they make small plasma TV, too.
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robxLocation: United States Age: 27 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 7:34 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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There are a lot of things to consider before buying any HD TV.
Suppose i could just look wait for that Sony 26" Bravia M-Series.
It looks quite nice in that image from walmart. I mean its already out, but i am in no hurry to purchase one, so i will take your suggestion and wait a few months to see if the price will drop. Thanks for all the inputs on this, i really learned a lot about HD T.V in a short while. Important suggestions have been written down to help assist me further if i so should decide to look for a different one.
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FoolyDoolyJoined: 08 Jun 2007 Total posts: 104 Location: PUSAN, S. Korea %or% NEW JERSEY, US Age: 19 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| AkumaX wrote: | | robx wrote: | | In one of my response i have said i am currently using Comcast and possibly will still be with comcast later still. |
Do you have Comcast Digital Cable or Analog Cable? I think you can kinda see where I'm going with this... |
Comcast is currently Digital, if you have their new settop box.
Remember to get a new HD Box from them. Exchanging should be free. (Of course, they are probably still charing you for "rental box" fee.) They should also give you RGB Cable, but I personally prefer you get S-Video if they give you one. (Cablevision, cable company of where I live, offers both.) Of course, neither beats HDMI.
Also, if you're planning to get DVD player that supports DivX/XviD playback, remember to get one that reads "UPCONVERTS TO". That one supports re-formatting to HDTV frequency (doesn't make it picture perfect, but lot shaper then 480p/i.) They costs roughly 40-100$, somewhere there (I got mine for 60, personally). And quick notice-
1. DivX is restrictive codec, so on this DVD player, all DivX codec versions should play. (Unless new DivX 7 or something comes out anytime soon...)
2. BECAUSE DivX is restrictive codec, not all XviD will play. Some which has weird format size will not play. I found out that size 800x450 will not play due to huge aspect size on XviD (ratio unachievable in DivX.) But generally, anything smaller then 720i worked (720x???).
3. Remember that player only covers AVI. If you have DVD burner with RW support, I recommend you get RWs for watch, erase, watch, erase.......
Quick tip as person who owns few of these equipments.
Oh yea... q.2. Are you going to Surround Sound? (More then 2 speaker on your home?)
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robxLocation: United States Age: 27 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 8:35 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| For the future plan on a living room entertainment center I do plan to go 7.1
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-- Robx --
Completed Series:
Huo Yuan Jia, Face to Fate, The Great Revival, The Handsome Siblings, The Tearful Sword, Genghis Kan
In Progress:
Madam White Snake, Ni Shui Han, Legend Of DemiGods
Next Series:
NONE / Unknown
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StealthGnomeJoined: 23 Dec 2007 Total posts: 82 Location: San Francisco, CA Gender: Male |
| Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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5.1 or 7.1 is great. Make sure you have a good receiver too. I would check out the AVS forums. It have much more informed people towards home entertainment.
I would stay away from HDTV boxes from cable companies (like Comcast). The digital cable package that costed $5more/month actually presented a worse picture the directly using the cable line.
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FoolyDoolyJoined: 08 Jun 2007 Total posts: 104 Location: PUSAN, S. Korea %or% NEW JERSEY, US Age: 19 Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:16 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| StealthGnome wrote: | 5.1 or 7.1 is great. Make sure you have a good receiver too. I would check out the AVS forums. It have much more informed people towards home entertainment.
I would stay away from HDTV boxes from cable companies (like Comcast). The digital cable package that costed $5more/month actually presented a worse picture the directly using the cable line. |
Yea, I would do some research personally.
Some cable company report slight better pictures (not all pure HD yet, of course, so far I seen.) I know Time Warner supports Pure HD (1280p) on very few channels on New York City area, and Cablevision does upconvert/downconvert to 720p. Not entirely sure about Comcast though. There's lot of bad thing about them, so I would personally think this research may help you better then anything.
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StealthGnomeJoined: 23 Dec 2007 Total posts: 82 Location: San Francisco, CA Gender: Male |
| Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2008 12:26 am Post subject: Post Rating: 0 |
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| There were the same channels on digital cable and the ones I picked up on the QAM tuner. Not worth it.
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