Plasma TV ?

KnuckleBuckett said:
If you decide to get anything less than a 1080P you are making a mistake.
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Please explain why. If you have a 1080p source, it could be beneficial. If you plan on doing nothing but watching TV where 720p or 1080i is the broadcast format, and will be for a long time, you are wasting $ getting a 1080p.



Also, take a look at the graph below. It says that if you sit >8' from a 42" or >10' from a 50", that you get no benefit from 1080p. The human eye can't tell the difference.



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If you have a valid reason other than marketing hype, please step in.
 
First. I am not into marketing hype. That was kind of rude. I am here to lend advice not spam marketing filth.



Now.



1080P is a common format and becoming increasingly more common. It looks great and markets well. ("We have 1080P. They have 720P. Who you gonna watch?")



Whenever a signal is converted from the original format, visual artifacts are created due to imperfect algorythms and signal processing through the Digital signal to Digital down/up conversion to Analog processing path. These artifacts are magnified and increase in number of occurances as the ratio of the format increases. Further these artifacts are clearly visable at any reasonable viewing distance on any type of television. As the popularity of 1080P grows, the amount of material natively filmed in 1080P increases with it, well into the forseable future. Also the 1080P converter electronics and algorythms are inherently capable of faster, cleaner, and more accurate processing than the others (thus the increased cost). To avoid blurs, pixilizations, crawling lines, overcontrasts, line to line misalignments, etc it is wise to purchase a tv with native interpolation in a format that will best benefit the optical quality for your television set over the forseeable future. In the case of modern day and up and coming broadcast formats 1080P in most areas is a quickly growing standard.



I hope this helped to make the issue easer to understand.
 
1080P broadcast is not happening anytime soon, if ever. So don't waste your money if you are planning on watching any broadcast or cable in 1080P. you will likely have a couple more sets before that ever happens.
 
KnuckleBuckett said:
Whenever a signal is converted from the original format, visual artifacts are created due to imperfect algorythms and signal processing through the Digital signal to Digital down/up conversion to Analog processing path. These artifacts are magnified and increase in number of occurances as the ratio of the format increases. Further these artifacts are clearly visable at any reasonable viewing distance on any type of television.



In the case of modern day and up and coming broadcast formats 1080P in most areas is a quickly growing standard.
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You actually just helped me out. If a signal comes across as 720p, which broadcast will for 5+ years, and is converted to a native panel resolution of 1080p, you have increased artifacts.



And 1080p is not a broadcast format you will see anytime soon. Cable and satellite companies are already compressing HD broadcasts due to a lack of bandwidth.



Note: I am saying this only if pretty much the only thing you will do with your TV is watch broadcast TV, which the majority of TV's are used for.



BTW, that quote sounded like pure copy/pasted marketing hype, even the first line points this out.
 
jfelbab said:
In fact most HD cable is highly compressed and is usually at best either 720P or 1080i.
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Yeah, no kidding. I was walking past a Sony store the other day and they had a hockey game on one of the LCD televisions in the window. It was HD, but the artifacts were horrible. When they players were skating around, they were pretty much just blurs.
 
Wow i didn't know this would cause such a heated debate. I bought a 42" Panasonic plasma. Did a lot of reading on asvforum and confirmed it was the best for the money i had to spend. It was on sale at sears, out the door for $1060. So far i love it major improvement over any tv i've every owned.
 
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