I've purchased 2 Sony HDTVs in my life. One 42 inch, one 30-something inch.
Neither approached 2K$ very closely. The 42 was purchased 8 years ago and
was the most expensive at about 1400$, the second was just under 300 at
Costco.
On Aug 7, 2014 3:32 PM, "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I finally got rid of my 100 pounder CRT 2 years ago. I had to call my
> > brother-in-law and his son for help in getting it out the door to his
> truck
> > to take to the junk yard. No matter how good the picture I don't think
> it
> > could be any better than my 42" Panasonic HDTV. It has 4 HDMI ports
> > including an audio return channel so the TV can feed audio back to the
> > receiver. It's no flyweight but I can at least move it by myself. A 200
> > pounder would be out of the question for me.
>
> I'm not too proud to say that we are the proud owners of one of those
> expensive 100 pounder CRTs that somebody replaced with a $2000 HDTV.
> Works perfectly for us and it didn't cost us a dime. However, we did
> spend $10 for the stand from somebody else. Oh, and a chiropractor
> adjustment.
>
> The reality is that by the time you get back into a normal viewing
> distance, you can't really tell the difference in resolution and
> sharpness anyway.
>
> What most people don't understand is that the hyper clean image
> quality that we see with HDTV images from cable tv or satellite is
> actually a result of having the video compression cranked up so high
> that all the detail is erased.
>
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