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did I get a faulty TV or do large screen LCD's suck?

lozina

lozina

Lifer
So I went all out recently and shelled out almost 4 grand for a 45" Sharp LCD - the GXU variety.

I don't have HDTV just yet but I hooked it up to my regular cable and the picture looks just plain horrendous. Fuzzy, noisy, grainy.. it looks as if the connection is really poor. So I shrugged it off for a while and wanted to wait until I play some dvds on it. I hooked up my laptop to it tonight and I started to play a DVD and some video clips to my TV, like I used to do on the old 36" CRT we had previous from around 1998. The picture looked pretty lousy and now I'm worried.

There's still some time until I get HDTV service but if this TV will only look good with an HDTV singal and lousy with anything else than this is the biggest waste of money I've ever committed. Granted, a laptop is not the best source of video, there's nonetheless a big difference between the way it comes out on this TV compared to my old one.

I wish I can somehow demonstrate how bad it looks, but if you are familiar with this LCD and it's cousins you might have heard of a certain "clayface" issue with some models. Lemme tell right now that I wish that's all I had because looking at the comparison photos I could barely tell the model with clayface apart from a normal one, yet I'm seeing really bad picture on mine!

IS there some kind of optimaization/configuration perhaps in order to get the TV looking better?

 
i run ota on my hdtv and with that regular channels blow, but the hd channels are really clear and sharp.
 
apparently there are a lot of HDTVs that are completely lousy with a non HD source
 
i hate how all the electronic stores run an HD signal through all their models.

for regular tv, Tube CRTs are still the best in my opinion.

 
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Marketing sucked you in, lied to you, and then emptied your wallet.
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indeed, I think so.. I think i got great tv for 20 years from now when every channel is in hdtv. and I got it for a great premium of 4000% the cost of what it would be by that time too! lucky me...
 
This is so true. Regular TV looks like @ss on the newer HD TVs.

But then HD looks so good that now I will just watch Discovery HD Theater because it looks so damn good. Doesnt even matter what is on, as long as it is HD. Pretty sad... yes... I know...
 
This is why I stuck with a CRT HDTV this time around ... 90% of what I watch is still reguler tv which looks very good & HD stuff looks awesome too.
 
First of all DVDs are only 480 lines, secondly you are streching the same 480 lines over 45inches instead of 36inch previously, of course its gonna look crappier, you don't magically expect the tv to fill in some extra lines in there for ya do you?

Try some HD source then come back.
 
Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Marketing sucked you in, lied to you, and then emptied your wallet.
Click to expand...

indeed, I think so.. I think i got great tv for 20 years from now when every channel is in hdtv. and I got it for a great premium of 4000% the cost of what it would be by that time too! lucky me...
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in 20 years you will have gone through 4 plasmas.
 
Originally posted by: lozina
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Marketing sucked you in, lied to you, and then emptied your wallet.
Click to expand...

indeed, I think so.. I think i got great tv for 20 years from now when every channel is in hdtv. and I got it for a great premium of 4000% the cost of what it would be by that time too! lucky me...
Click to expand...


Everyone I know who has a large screen HDTV I laugh at because they think the picture is great and to me it is simply terrible and I have perfect vision so I know it isn't that. I guess their mind is telling them the picture is great because they spent SO MUCH MONEY.
 
well the picture is great, given the source is not standard def.
i'll probably end up getting a projector for movies though.
 
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