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if you look thru a junkmail electronics store booklet, that you find in your mailbox or in the weekend paper occasionaly, you'll see adverts from various manufacturers, selling 1920x1080 true/full HD plasma and lcd.

LCD for computers without doubt, make sure it features low ms, ie 2ms or 5ms.

Plasma for dark rooms and if you watch a lot of sports.

Either or for movies, comes down to the room settings and personal preferrence

Ive got plasma as its a large dark room where it sits, and becomes a feature point of the room. Lcd would have been disapointing in this situation IMO.

My bro and sis'nlaw got a 50" lcd but swapped it for 50" plasma the next week as sports and movies were blurry etc. Im sure it didnt have a low ms count, altough was true hd

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50" is to small imho.

A common misconception is that bigger is better.... nope!

Ever sat in the front row at the cinema? Its sh*t.

The guide for sizing is that whatever the diagonal screen size you should sit a MINIMUM of three times that distance.

cheers, M.

Interesting thread.

Why did a few of you quickly disregard the Soniq 40" plasma(i think) 1920x1080 with 1 HDMI input

for like $1500

This is what i've been looking at lately.thinking to buy.

the only downfall i see is it only has 1 HDMI input compared to the 2 or 3 on other well known brands

for example a dvd uses approx 720 line images. If your tv has 768 resolution then its a virtual direct display (no scaling involved) however if you feed in a full HD image it must downscale from 1080 to fit 768. This will still give a good quality picture.

A DVD has 576 lines image, the resolution of PAL DVDs are 720x576 (& NTSC DVDs are 720*480), so 576 vertical display resolution, as all sources always quote the vertical display resolution, instead of the horizontal display res (just like 720 is from 1280x720, & 1080 is from 1920x1080).

It can be 576i or 576p depending on wether you set your dvd player to output progressive signal or not (using Component output). Now there are some DVD players (& all Blue Ray players) that have HDMI ouptut & through this it can upscale the 576 image to 720/1080 & filter the image through a hardware digital filter & the resulting picture looks better compared if you directly let the TV expand the image (through other type of connections; composite (ie RCA), S-Video & Component).

A 576i/p (DVD) res is SD & not HD. 720 & 1080 are HD res.

Been muckin about on the net for a while now lol don't you love when the boss is away!

http://www.digitalcentre.com.au/p/455272/s...-hd-bravia.html

This site has crazy prices, offers paypal & apparently realy good reputation. Don't think JB etc can match, but it may be worth a try :(

Mate you should be able to get a Bravia 40" LCD from JB for about 2 grand now... I got mine for about $2,300 earlier this year so they should have come down in price since then... Go Samsung or Sony for LCD, don't bother with yum cha brands IMHO

In fact Harvey Norman have good deals too... my brother in law just got a 46" (bastard had to go bigger than me hehe) for a steal, almost the same price I paid for mine

I wouldn't buy a tv off the net, too hard to get it fixed/replaced if its faulty

yeah you got a problem with JB huh huh :P

LOL nah i completely understand if you tried to get served in the hi fi section, never enough staff and they always busy. Should check out the games dept, that section rocks :P

Flick works for Harvey Norman, Luke works for JB :P Do you guys have price fights :P

I was looking at 42" plasmas a while ago, when they were $2700. Ive heard good things about Kogen actually, anyone had any bad experiences?

sony = #1 brand for lcds, but they are $$$

imo, get a samsung full hd, 100hz screen and u wont be disapointed!! they r the 2nd best brand and easy enough to buy cheep/wholesale here in sa

btw i havent read the whole thread but 100hz doesnt work for pc input, so if ur hooking it up to a pc, forget the 100hz stuff

i'd sugest u do some visual resarech at truscots in the city before making ur purchase tho

A DVD has 576 lines image, the resolution of PAL DVDs are 720x576 (& NTSC DVDs are 720*480)

Correct... my bad. Just realised I was looking at region 1 disc beforehand!!

But you get the general idea anyhow....

yeah fair call....I didn't think the plasmas could get the same res as the LCD's but I stand corrected.

I just got a bit fired up over that clown's smart attitude from the eastside.....very easy to do when you're 1600km away

you're a tool mate.

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