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New 42" LCD at Costco - 1920 x 1080 - $1999

It has a built-in tuner (NTSC and ATSC) as well. Pretty amazing price for a 42" screen with such high resolution.
 
Wow, nice price...I'm not in the market for one (not that I'd have the money to be anyway 😛), but that's a lot more TV than you usually get for that price.
 
the 37 is very nice tooo...check the resolution:

Screen Size: 37" TFT LCD
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Resolution: 1920 x 1080
Brightness: 600cd/m²
Contrast Ratio: 1000:1
Response Time: 8ms
Viewing Angle: 170° H/170H° V


Does Costco carry these in store, or only on-line order?

 
How about other things like picture quality, customer service? how well it's built etc... but $2000 for a 42" 1080p sounds too good to be true.
 
If the trend of the last 2 years continue, this means that, for the price you pay in March for a second or third tier brand 42-inch LCD like this one, you will be able to get the same from a first tier brand in October.

Too bad Samsung and its partner-in-LCD Sony, are pushing the 40-inch size. I would have to go with a 42-inch LG-Phillips instead.

2 more inches in the diagonal means 10% more viewing surface.
 
Originally posted by: SpeedZealot369
How about other things like picture quality, customer service? how well it's built etc... but $2000 for a 42" 1080p sounds too good to be true.
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It's Costco, so this is a low risk buy. There are reviews out on the 37" LCD, so this may be of use:

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_1...e-37-inch-lcd-hdtv-11-2005-part-1.html

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3094

NewEgg user reviews:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824112174

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7596-0.htm...D=60&threadID=119362&messageID=1442603

Bad Comments:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7596-0.htm...D=60&threadID=119362&messageID=1405742

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/301394


 
Originally posted by: Pocatello
Originally posted by: Acanthus
HDMI but no HDCP.
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I'm not an expert on this, but HDMI probably means it's HDCP compatible.
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That is not neccesarily true.

The Dell 2405 has HDMI and no HDCP support IIRC. The major improvements of the 2407 over the 2405 is HDCP support, and less weight.
 
Originally posted by: Acanthus
Originally posted by: Pocatello
Originally posted by: Acanthus
HDMI but no HDCP.
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I'm not an expert on this, but HDMI probably means it's HDCP compatible.
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That is not neccesarily true.

The Dell 2405 has HDMI and no HDCP support IIRC. The major improvements of the 2407 over the 2405 is HDCP support, and less weight.
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Nope, the 2405 does not have an HDMI port.

While its not necessarily true that all HDMI ports are HDCP compatible, I don't know that I've heard of any that aren't. In fact I believe most articles I've read seem to make the point that all HDMI are HDCP compliant, but not all DVI is HDCP compliant.

The HDMI port being HDCP compliant isn't what you need to know, its the DVI, because with the exception of a very few TVs (some HP models were the first with it, and I think there have been a couple more higher end ones since), most of the HDMI ports on TVs cannot carry a full 1080p signal (HDMI 1.1 ports which most TVs have for some reason can't pull the full 1080p signal, but the newer spec HDMI 2.0 ports can). DVI can, but it'll need to be HDCP compliant in order to watch next gen hi-def movies in their full 1080p glory.

So if you want to be Vista/Blu-Ray (possibly HD-DVD if they release movies that offer full 1080p), this isn't a TV for you (assuming the DVI port isn't HDCP compliant).

I'm not sure about 1080p through the cable or whatever, but since it'll be a while before we see really any 1080p television signals (aside from maybe a couple of events and/or a channel or two).
 
Originally posted by: JonnyBlaze
Originally posted by: shabby
1 component input? Pfft.
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dvd player on component, hdtv on dvi and a pc on the vga. what else do you need?
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Xbox 360 needs components for the HD signal. Any HD DVD player will need HDMI or DVI, too. My Sony has DVI and two component inputs and I don't know what I'll do if I get hi-def DirectTV for my component jacks are already eaten up by my old Xbox and DVD player.

It's a HD world coming and more component and DVI/HDMI jacks should be included.

 
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