Anyone wanna give input on a Wide Screen HDTV?

[res1bhmg]

Listen to Ameesh. Pick up a Pioneer 16:9 RPTV (53" or 64"). The model numbers are on their website. They are not the Pioneer Elite models, but are still slightly better than any offerings from Toshiba, Mitsubishi, or Sony in their price range.

Otherwise, I would recommend a Toshiba 55HX82 , or the Sony KP-57HW40; both are fairly new to the market, and have gotten good word of mouth.

 

[freak-o-a-l]

I see your not on much of a budget, but anyone out there reading this who wants and HDTV either can't afford a big screen or fit it in their room, I will give you this bit of advice. I picked up a Samsung Tantus 27" HDTV a week ago for $750 and I will tell you what, this thing has an amazing picture, I think it looks a little better than even the Sony 32" model. And if you're looking for 32", the Samsung is still $400 cheaper than the Sony 32". If their bigger sets are anything like mine, I'd say look into them.

 

[maddmaxx]

more info...great!!! thanks all who took time to help me out!

peace

 

[NuclearFusi0n]

A. Screw the sony crap
B. Look for a TV that can handle 720p natively
C. Ask around & read at AVSForum. It's the best forum for any audio/video/home theater question.

 

[LotusNotesGuy]

Samsung has been desperately trying to get back into the high end plasma and tv market. They went to TI and licensed the entire design of TI's DLP chipset tv, called mustang, anpretty built it spec by spec for production supposedly. TI engineers claim its by far the best DLP set implementation because mfg's usually "play with designs", and samsung didnt since they were in a hurry to get to market. DLP is NOT plasma or LCD but a different technology,similar in some ways more to LCD I think than to plasma.

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/bsless/mhlm437w.html 43 inch 2699$ shipped if ordered by 8/15

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/bsless/mhlm507w.html 50 inch 3199$ shipped if ordered by 8/15

**** Datavision has the 50 inch on pre-order for 4499$ as of today 08/05.


I did some quick checking these sets are MUCH more on every other website I found. This merchant is making a GROUP buy.

Here is a link to a 10,000$ dollar Hitachi for another model to read about I grabbed at random.



http://www.800stereo.com/Merchant2/...en=PROD&Category_Code=hittv&Product_Code=H5DT

Alot of us have been waiting for HDTV deals. THIS new technology has been around but not out in production until just recently much,
DLP means Picture Digital Light Processing Technology and previously has only been available on 10,000$-16,000$ units. Texas Instruments supposedly makes the only reference chipset in production right now though I have way to verify that.

These sets are sharper than LCD and only a very a few people say they arent sharper than every high end projection they have seen. A few people claim the high end pioneer Elite line of projection Tv's are as good or better.

Over on the AVS forum there are over 35 pages of posts about just these 2 sets, they have ALOT of peopel excited.

Best buy and HI-FI buys are clearing out their currents stocks for more plasme and DLP sets according to different net articles I have seen.

For those of you who want a really high quality set for not much more , these are VERY much worth checking out, they are that deep compared to projection sets either, so not as big.

Personally I think 2699$ for a 43 inch DLP is incredible, but time eventually brings the price down on everything. Just look at plasma's this year compard to 2 years ago.

I DON'T think they are better than plasma's though some argue they are just as good, I rank them between LCD's, maybe TOP end direct view sets, and probably right below or next to plasma's. I may be wrong on that, but there just arent enough people out there saying they prefer them over plasma so I play it safe rather then mislead a fellow AandTech member.

My guess is DLP will be a huge part of the market very shortly.

These sets are just shipping now after a long time of waiting.

 

[Electric Amish]

Mistubishi.....The Big Screen company.

amish