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I bought a Mitsubishi Bigscreen!

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amdforever2

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55" Widescreen HDTV

Does 1080i and stuff. It's not a DLP or LCD projection though. Just the standard projection. Got it for $1800 from Sears. They said the brand was ok, but I've had no experience with bigscreens at all.

Salesman insisted they could stand up to Sony and Hitachi.

Anyone have experience?

Also, what's considered the best progressive scan dvd player available?

I don't yet get to enjoy the HDTV-ness. Charter doesn't provide it in my city.
 
Mitsubishi makes some good ones and some not so good. Brand means little in the grand scheme of things. It's brand AND model that's important.

It's sort of like saying you bought a Ford, and was wondering if it was good. Well, depends on if you bought a new Ford GT or you picked up a focus.

The best progressive scan DVD player available is probably the Goldmund Eidos Reference:

http://www.goldmund.com/old/EidosReference/intro.html

If that's too costly, there are a lot of good choices for less, but you may want to specify a price range. There are some good models (and very bad models) in every price category.
 
It's not a purchase I care all that much about, I just want to make sure Mitsubishi isn't like Apex, RCA, or whatever else is known as subpar.


DVD player price range I would prefer to be under $150, and available at a store like Best Buy.
 
Apex hit it on the head. Most manufacturers have produced a few duds in their time.

If I was buying a RPTV today, my order of preference would be:

Hitachi
Mitsubishi
Toshiba

Sony makes the best CRTs, IMO, but their projectors suck.

Anyway, congrats on your purchase. I am SO jealous.

32" Sony Trinitron, no component inputs. <---me
 
Do you live near a major city? Does your tv come with a reciever? If yes to both, then you might be able to get HD via an antenna.

Also, might want to think about investing in a Avia disk to calibrate the set, usually the factory settings are crap.
 
Originally posted by: amdforever2
55" Widescreen HDTV

Does 1080i and stuff. It's not a DLP or LCD projection though. Just the standard projection. Got it for $1800 from Sears. They said the brand was ok, but I've had no experience with bigscreens at all.

Salesman insisted they could stand up to Sony and Hitachi.

Anyone have experience?

Also, what's considered the best progressive scan dvd player available?

I don't yet get to enjoy the HDTV-ness. Charter doesn't provide it in my city.
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If you really want HDTV try getting DirecTV.

Wish I had a 55" TV 🙁
 
Originally posted by: wkabel23
Originally posted by: amdforever2
55" Widescreen HDTV

Does 1080i and stuff. It's not a DLP or LCD projection though. Just the standard projection. Got it for $1800 from Sears. They said the brand was ok, but I've had no experience with bigscreens at all.

Salesman insisted they could stand up to Sony and Hitachi.

Anyone have experience?

Also, what's considered the best progressive scan dvd player available?

I don't yet get to enjoy the HDTV-ness. Charter doesn't provide it in my city.
Click to expand...

If you really want HDTV try getting DirecTV.

Wish I had a 55" TV 🙁
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Actually...for HDTV goodness...I'd get VOOM...but I need the Sunday Ticket for my nfl football addiction so DirectTV it is for me...
 
For calibration, this is your best option (as long as you have the patience to navigate through their menus):

http://www.deepdiscountdvd.com/dvd.cfm?itemID=VMG010712

Use the 20% off coupon they have now. Awesome price. I have AVIA, Digital Video Essentials, Video Essentials, Sound &amp; Vision, and the THX calibration disks that come with some DVD's. Of those, AVIA is the easiest full featured one to use, but DVE has just as much functionality (actually, a bit more), and is 1/3 of the price.

In terms of a DVD player, there's nothing great at Best Buy for cheap. Online deals are much better. If you really want to buy at a local retailer, scrounge around to see if any place has a Panasonic DVD-RP82 in stock, probably open box. Great DVD player. If not that, I'd suggest considering picking up a Philips DVD-963SA from OneCall for $227.81 (expires 6/21/04). That DVD player was about $450 not too long ago. Great MPEG decoder, Faroudja DCDi deinterlacer (2 chip version, not newer FLI2300 with some EE issues), and very good SACD capabilities.
 
Believe it or not, I just bought THIS a few days ago. The salesman loved it and swore it knocked the spots off RCA and Sony.

I am waiting for Directv to come out on Monday to install my new Digital dish.

Congrats to you!

🙂
 
Originally posted by: amdforever2
I live in Redding, CA.

No HDTV by air or by cable.

I don't imagine it will ever be as sharp as a LCD or DLP anyways right?
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no it wont be as sharp as DLP but should be better than an EDTV LCD, but with the right feed (HD or even progressive DVD, although HD>progressive DVD), you will have an amazing picture that will knock your socks off assuming it is calibrated properly...

once you watch a football game (or anything else for that matter) in HD, you won't ever be able to watch in standard definition again, trust me...

I have a three year old Toshiba 57H81 for my home theater setup and just bought a sony 46" KP46WT510 last week for the bedroom...both have awesome pictures...just used Video essentials to calibrate them...not sure i want to spend the $$ to have it profesionally done, but have heard the difference is pretty dramatic when they do it, but it runs about $400 per set IIRC for them to do it...
 
I can't speak for Mitsubishi's HD picture quality, but my dad has an almost twenty-year-old Mitsubishi 72" projection TV that still works great, and it's seen a LOT of use everyday. I don't think it's ever had to be serviced, either.
 
Definitely get some type of calibration DVD. First thing you should do is turn down the contrast/picture setting. Chances are, it came from the factory set to 100% which is WAY too much for a CRT. Drop it down to 50% until you get a chance to use AVIA or DVE.
 
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