Actually, I use HD projector for serious movies, TV screen is a little too
small to enjoy good movies. My HDTV is mainly for TV programs, we watch TV
around 4 hours a day. Even the electricity cost is not high I just feel
unfortable to use CRT especially in summer time when the temperature is
high. If your TV usage rate is so low then there is no problem.
If one don't mind slightly higher power consumption, get a plasma from
Panasonic, it is better than most LCD TV.
C.H.Ling
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From: "Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali" <muhammad.siddiqui-ali@xxxxxxx>
I guess that's another determination--how much usage is planned. I watch
maybe a movie or two per month, so total runtime is less than 5 hours, and
the 300 odd watts (for the TV) is worth it for me.
I think a lot of people missed the fact that the recommended CRT tv was
HD. It's pretty much the only 16:9 HD monitor that's tube based. I feed
it HD signals from blu-ray discs or Netflix. It might only be 34" but the
image is astounding.
Getting back to Mike: look at the Samsung F5300 which should tick all the
boxes. The Vizio E something series is also worth looking at.
Siddiq
On Aug 7, 2014, at 7:40 PM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The HD TV programes here are very good, with 12Mb bit rate the details
are
way better than conventional TV. Compression artifacts are not very
visible
unless you intentionally look for it.
The problem with CRT is not only low resolution and heavy, the high power
consumption is unacceptable. I believe the bigger one (30" up) will run
over
200W while our 50" Panasonic is only 50W in normal mode.
If you think conventional TV has better resolution, try to see if you get
anything come close to these still captures:
http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/HDTVCap/HDTVCap.html
The stills are having some JPEG artifacts but they are not obvious in
video
mode.
Can I see the quality difference at "normal viewing distance"? Sure! very
obvious, analogue TV quality is no longer acceptable to us, same as DVDs.
May be we have difference standards for "normal viewing distance", here
the
broadcast company recommend 3-5x vertical height of your TV screen.
C.H.Ling
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