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Some impressions:
http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback38.html
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Recently I stood in a room full new digital TVs from a major manufacturer and watched as a 42-inch set listing for $6999 was far outperformed by a 46-inch set selling for $1499. That was no surprise to me, but it may be to some of you.
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So what’s the big secret that I’ve waited till the third paragraph to disclose? You’ve probably guessed already. The $6999 product was a flat-panel plasma display (42HDX61), while the $1499 product was a rear-projection set using a conventional three-tube light engine (46F510). The people at Hitachi are assuming that people will pay more than twice as much for a picture that isn’t quite as big or as good because the form factor of flat panels is just so much cooler. And of course they’re right.
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Wait, there’s more. Though both sets were HD-worthy, the cheaper one also had greater sharpness and detail. Its native resolution was 1080 by 1920—better known as the 1080i HDTV format—while the more costly one had a pixel grid of 1024 by 1024. True, the 1080 by 1920 pixel set could only display about 90 percent of the 1080i format’s potential resolution due to the limits of the seven-inch tubes (it takes nine-inch tubes to do 1080i perfectly). Moreover, the vertical resolution of the plasma was within spitting distance of the 1080i standard (1024 vs. 1080) though its horizontal resolution fell far short of the format’s potential (1024 vs. 1920). In any case, the tube-based projector had a fine-grained quality that stood up to close inspection—with seven-inch tubes, the scan lines slur together nicely—whereas I had to stand at least four or five feet from the plasma before the pixels blended.
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this TV rocks, it's 90% of 1080x1920 and regardless... specs are one thing, and your own two eyes are another. The picture on these is amazing, definately one of the best in the showroom for any price. HD looks stunning.
My point was the higher you get with resolutions the smaller the visual difference becomes, as long as you're getting a 720p or 1080i signal you're good, it's gonna look amazing, beyond that you're really just splitting hairs IMO.
http://news.designtechnica.com/talkback38.html
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Recently I stood in a room full new digital TVs from a major manufacturer and watched as a 42-inch set listing for $6999 was far outperformed by a 46-inch set selling for $1499. That was no surprise to me, but it may be to some of you.
...
So what’s the big secret that I’ve waited till the third paragraph to disclose? You’ve probably guessed already. The $6999 product was a flat-panel plasma display (42HDX61), while the $1499 product was a rear-projection set using a conventional three-tube light engine (46F510). The people at Hitachi are assuming that people will pay more than twice as much for a picture that isn’t quite as big or as good because the form factor of flat panels is just so much cooler. And of course they’re right.
...
Wait, there’s more. Though both sets were HD-worthy, the cheaper one also had greater sharpness and detail. Its native resolution was 1080 by 1920—better known as the 1080i HDTV format—while the more costly one had a pixel grid of 1024 by 1024. True, the 1080 by 1920 pixel set could only display about 90 percent of the 1080i format’s potential resolution due to the limits of the seven-inch tubes (it takes nine-inch tubes to do 1080i perfectly). Moreover, the vertical resolution of the plasma was within spitting distance of the 1080i standard (1024 vs. 1080) though its horizontal resolution fell far short of the format’s potential (1024 vs. 1920). In any case, the tube-based projector had a fine-grained quality that stood up to close inspection—with seven-inch tubes, the scan lines slur together nicely—whereas I had to stand at least four or five feet from the plasma before the pixels blended.
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this TV rocks, it's 90% of 1080x1920 and regardless... specs are one thing, and your own two eyes are another. The picture on these is amazing, definately one of the best in the showroom for any price. HD looks stunning.
My point was the higher you get with resolutions the smaller the visual difference becomes, as long as you're getting a 720p or 1080i signal you're good, it's gonna look amazing, beyond that you're really just splitting hairs IMO.
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