hehe, i think i will try to speak normally...
WEGA: it's sony's model of high end television sets, non-projection type. What do you get from wega: flat screen, perfectly flat screen.
trinitron: it's sony's normal model of television sets. Its somewhat high end as well, compared to the other brands. This is a vertically flat screen. Imagine a very large cylinder, and you cut a piece of the outside off. That is what you get from trinitron. it's flat going up and down, but round going side to side.
comparison wega vs trinitron): wega brings in around a $100 premium compared to an almost equal trinitron, those who have wega, love it. Those who dont, want it. My family went trinitron, because there was no real justification for us to go that $100 extra for wega.
other televisions (non-projection): if you look, some of these sets look pregnant. That is the nature of CRT (the electron gun and all that) technology which is nearly 100 years old. This pregnant effect is fine, if its not too round. But you find some that are very round.
comparisions (sony vs the world): the trinitron and wega tubes are VERY high quality tubes. The picture quality is excellent. Models include signal processing to improve the picture quality from an analog signal. higher end trinitron and wega models have svideo, slightly higher models have component video in (it is used by DVD players and other high end video sources for the "BEST" picture quality).
personal comments:
I have a 10 year old trinitron in my room. ITS STILL WORKING!!!!!!. There is a 1999 or 2000 model 32" trinitron in the living room. My sister has a 24" (or was that 20") wega where she is. Seriously, the trinitron tubes are the best there was until the wega tubes came out a "few" years ago.
projection televisions: these are those super 40" plus sets. There is a projector inside that projects the the picture onto the back of the screen (front projection). Some sets suck like hell. if you look, there are is a color gradient due to the projection nature of the set. High end models suffer less (but still suffer, VERY LITTLE) from the problem.
HDTV: this is a new type of display AND broadcast standard. it's nearly 20 years old btw. But its finally becoming MANDATORY.
broadcast: current technology is termed analog, as opposed to "digital" and will soon be changed over to digital, which is what HDTV is supposed to be. This is not to say that all digital television is HDTV.
high definition: this is the part that bings in the higher quality. Here is a list of resolutions, 1920X1080, 1280X720, 720X480, and 640X480, the first 2 are called HIGH DEFINITION. what you get is more DEFINITION, which means a higher picture quality. You can really see MUCH MORE DETAIL from a true HDTV source. as you can see from the given resolutions, the HDTV resolutions have a different ratio. HDTV sets are being made in widescreen formats, which is more true to what you see. if you take your hands and make a frame, moving them until your fingers are at the edges of your field of vision, you will realize that the rectangle formed is closer to the ration 16x9 (widescreen) than 4x3 is (which is what current televisions use).
HDTV the bad news: most televisions will no longer be able to receive television signals soon. the US government is forcing a permanent shift to HDTV broadcast. this means that analog broadcasts will no longer exist. this means your television's TV signal tuner, is now useless. it still can display video, but there signals the television tunes to are no longer being broadcast. solution: there are HDTV tuners, specifically meant to be a solution to those who will not be buying a new set with an HDTV tuner, but will allow those older sets to display HDTV television. Unfortunately, the cost of these HDTV tuners approaches the cost of one of those cheaper $2000 HDTV units the last time I bothered looking. They probably cost $1000 by now, i really dont know.
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