John Francis must be out of touch on the latest HDTV displays their image quality compared to ANY CRT HDTVS. I happen to own what is considered by many the best CRT HDTV ever made, bar none, (the Sony 34XBR960 of 2004). As much as I like it, it is simply nowhere near as sharp as the latest 1080P LCD displays from sony & some others and all the earlier problems that the LCD displays had back in 2004 have now been overcome like poor contrast ratio, color gamut, colour accuracy, etc compared to the best CRTs of that time. In some cases those parameters now exceed the best CRT HDTVS ever made. this is why CRTs are being phased out in ALL sizes now. All you have to do is go into any best buy or circuit city and spend about a half hour looking at all the latest 1080P LCDs and then browse over to the few remaining CRT HD displays and take a gander, they all look really bad in comparison to the state of the LCD art. Granted they dont have the very best CRTs like mine there, those arent even being made anymore, but the HD CRTS in general just look plain blurry compared to the best 1080p LCDs.
Regarding how much difference you will see between the best upconverted DVD signals and the best HD signals, the better the HD display the more the difference becomes apparent. On these latest HD LCD 1080P sets its VERY apparent difference, a few year ago, especailly on CRTs the differece was always noticably better but nothing like the the difference you see now. Try to see a 1080P LCD playing a good Blu-Ray disc, its really amazing. One other caveat, not many people who havent owned a HDTV know this, but DVD is an excellent format in itself but you cant even begin to see it in full quality without an HDTV becuase of component/HDMI , anamorphic disk, progressive diplaying etc. So you have to be careful when comparing the difference between DVD vs HD on a given HD set. Of course if you compare HD on a HD set to DVD on an older non HD set, he DVD will be blown away with ANY HD set playing HD. jco jco -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Francis Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:36 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - for those of you who haveDVD equipthat can playPALsystemDVD's On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 08:40:48PM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > > Sir, the typical Blu-Ray/HDDVD buyer is not > > going to still use an older HD set that > > doesnt have HDMI interface anyway, > > As good as they were, none of the > > older HD sets that dont have HDMI input > > are as good as the best HD sets being > > made at the time of BLURAY HDDVD > > introductions and later. The bottom line, is > > you wont even hardly see any > > differece between blu-ray/HDDVD > > on those older sets compared to > > upconverted DVD if the set is > > so old it doesnt have HDMI. > > > I cry bullshit on this. CRT's have been capable of reproducing > 1920x1080 (i.e. 1080i, 1080p) and *certainly* 1280x720 (i.e. 720p) for > many years. Many "HD-ready" sets sold withing the past 12-18 months do > not have HDMI-capable inputes. Well, my (non-HDMI) HDTV might not be as good as "the best HD sets being made at the time of BLURAY HDDVD introduction", but it (and many other sets of that vintage) are quite capable of doing 1080i and 720p - that's what over-the-air HDTV can do. And while it's true that I won't see a difference between upconverted DVD and blu-ray/HDDVD on my set, I sure as hell would be able to see a difference if I could get a 720p or 1080i component signal from a HDDVD player. But as the manufacturers won't provide such a signal, the argument is moot. Blu-Ray/HDDVD have shot themselves in the foot; the early-adopters of HDTV (back in the days when the price of entry was $5000 and up) aren't quite ready yet to drop another few $K on a system upgrade (genuine 1080p LCD TVs are still pretty expensive, although the price is beginning to come down to more reasonable levels). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
