Wolfpup
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This is kind of a pointless post, more me ruminating on it than anything. Feel free to join the fun
My 2 year old 32" Sony LCD HDTV just got "abducted" for use in the living room when the old CRT finally more or less died, so I'm sort of looking for a new TV. I'll probably handle not having one for a while, but it'll drive me nuts sooner or later (just like it did last time).
Honestly I love my Sony, and LCD monitors I've used in general. It's got a great scaler that really handles SD content pretty decently (with a little tweaking, my PS2 for example could look roughly as good as my old CRT).
I'd *LOVE* a TV with LED backlighting, but I need something 40" or smaller, and there's basically nothing on the market that fits that anymore-one old Samsung, and that's it. Otherwise, Sony's 37" TV seems like a nice size. Just a bit bigger, without being overwhelming hopefully. Sony and Samsung are releasing models this fall with LED backlights, but they're in 46"+ sizes, which is WAY too big for me (40" may be pushing it, and honestly 32" is okay).
For the heck of it I'm staring at Panasonic's plasma sets too, although I don't know why...probably just because they're different. The supposed problems LCDs have don't actually exist in my experience (ie my TV and monitors don't have bluring, have viewing angles far past where you could actually sit to watch them, etc.-I think it's just cheap TN panels that have trouble with that).
Also, plasmas are CRAZY power hungry. A 40" LCD with CCFL draws around 200 watts, versus almost three times that for a 42" plasma, which is probably enough reason by itself to ignore them. (And LED backlighting would draw even less.) Plus, since I use a variety of aspect ratios, and of course play tons of games, I just don't know that a plasma makes any sense (though supposedly Panasonic's current models last a long time before reaching half brightness...though now I can't find where it says that on their site, or if it applies to their cheaper/smaller TVs).
On the other hand, at least they don't have mercury in them...
Just rambling
My 2 year old 32" Sony LCD HDTV just got "abducted" for use in the living room when the old CRT finally more or less died, so I'm sort of looking for a new TV. I'll probably handle not having one for a while, but it'll drive me nuts sooner or later (just like it did last time).
Honestly I love my Sony, and LCD monitors I've used in general. It's got a great scaler that really handles SD content pretty decently (with a little tweaking, my PS2 for example could look roughly as good as my old CRT).
I'd *LOVE* a TV with LED backlighting, but I need something 40" or smaller, and there's basically nothing on the market that fits that anymore-one old Samsung, and that's it. Otherwise, Sony's 37" TV seems like a nice size. Just a bit bigger, without being overwhelming hopefully. Sony and Samsung are releasing models this fall with LED backlights, but they're in 46"+ sizes, which is WAY too big for me (40" may be pushing it, and honestly 32" is okay).
For the heck of it I'm staring at Panasonic's plasma sets too, although I don't know why...probably just because they're different. The supposed problems LCDs have don't actually exist in my experience (ie my TV and monitors don't have bluring, have viewing angles far past where you could actually sit to watch them, etc.-I think it's just cheap TN panels that have trouble with that).
Also, plasmas are CRAZY power hungry. A 40" LCD with CCFL draws around 200 watts, versus almost three times that for a 42" plasma, which is probably enough reason by itself to ignore them. (And LED backlighting would draw even less.) Plus, since I use a variety of aspect ratios, and of course play tons of games, I just don't know that a plasma makes any sense (though supposedly Panasonic's current models last a long time before reaching half brightness...though now I can't find where it says that on their site, or if it applies to their cheaper/smaller TVs).
On the other hand, at least they don't have mercury in them...
Just rambling