oh man, just spent $1300 today on HDTV stuff.

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NewSc2

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I purchased a TV - Toshiba TW40X81 (pre-ISF calibrated, local buyer - 40" 16:9 HDTV) - $1000, a DVD player - Panasonic CP72 - 5-disc, progressive scan, DVD-A, for $250, and some component video cables off eBay for $50.

It looks really really cool.. but I can't seem to get over the fact that I was just really well off (i'm a college student, so anything in the higher 3 digits in the bank is well off) and now i'm dirt poor (i have $27 in my acct)

Oh well, the big TV right next to my bed looks nice :)
 
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NewSc2

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dude... you don't understand how badly i want to post pics... but i have no digital camera

friend came in today... my room was a mess (all the clothes that had been kind of lying around got thrown onto the bed)

"man.. your room is a mess... but that big-ass TV makes it look really really good"

:D
 
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NewSc2

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Originally posted by: HiTek21
I envy you, a 40" HDTV in your bedroom... You are a god!
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if i didn't have such awful apartmentmates i would definitely leave it in the living room - but that's another story

it's amazing too, 40" at best buy compared to all those huge 60+" screens looked kinda small.. in my room, 40" is quite large

here's a pic of the floorplan =\ (i hope it will suffice for now)

floorplan drawing link

here's a pic of my apartment complex (taken a while back) - 56k users beware

Parkwest Apartments in December

Hopefully I'll be putting up a pic of my bedroom in a couple days~
 
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Mutilator

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Don't shoot the messenger but your TV isn't ISF calibrated anymore since you moved it. ;)
I'm going to assume that most of your settings are still there... it's the regular user settings that were probably lost while the TV was without power (brightness, contrast, color, tint, etc.)
I'd recommend you buy yourself a copy of AVIA from someplace like Onecall.com
You'll be surprised how much better the TV can look. :)
 
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NewSc2

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Originally posted by: Mutilator
Don't shoot the messenger but your TV isn't ISF calibrated anymore since you moved it. ;)
I'm going to assume that most of your settings are still there... it's the regular user settings that were probably lost while the TV was without power (brightness, contrast, color, tint, etc.)
I'd recommend you buy yourself a copy of AVIA from someplace like Onecall.com
You'll be surprised how much better the TV can look. :)
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Ok, I understand how it isn't fully ISF calibrated anymore because I moved it... but a lot of the things that ISF calibration does is independent of the TV being moved? Like the disabling of SVM, grayscale settings, etc. I'm going to do the service manual's 56-point convergence thing again, but I'm going to try and understand the TV a little bit better first.

Regular user settings were still there - in fact, with the ISF calibration the guy who sold me the TV said that the default user settings were toned down, so that 100 contrast in the screen now is really 50 contrast before, etc. with brightness and the others.
 
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Mutilator

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Originally posted by: NewSc2
Regular user settings were still there - in fact, with the ISF calibration the guy who sold me the TV said that the default user settings were toned down, so that 100 contrast in the screen now is really 50 contrast before, etc. with brightness and the others.
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I guess that makes sense... I'd still buy a copy of AVIA since you're supposed to use it every couple months to double check everything and make any necessary changes. Plus the AVIA you can buy today is getting hard to find... a new professional version is about to come out but it's going to cost closer to $300 instead of $40. ;)

 
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No HDTV receiver?

Samsung has two nice boxes.

One does antenna and DirecTV (SIR-TS160), and another does just antenna (SIR-T165).

I have both the Samsung TS160 and Sony HD200 and I prefer the Samsung. The Sony HD200 is basically the same unit as the Zenith HDTV receiver. The picture quality is identical with the Samsung and Sony, but the Samsung has better features, menus, and guide.

Once you see HDTV, even DVDs look a little bad :D
 
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Originally posted by: Amused
No HDTV receiver?

Samsung has two nice boxes.

One does antenna and DirecTV (SIR-TS160), and another does just antenna (SIR-T165).

I have both the Samsung TS160 and Sony HD200 and I prefer the Samsung. The Sony HD200 is basically the same unit as the Zenith HDTV receiver. The picture quality is identical with the Samsung and Sony, but the Samsung has better features, menus, and guide.

Once you see HDTV, even DVDs look a little bad :D
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I'm still waiting on HDTV availability in my area. OTA requires a rooftop antenna in Denver...cable companies are doing nothing, and Satellite providers aren't giving anything more than 3 channels (2 of which are premium channels).
 
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I'm waiting on the HDTV purchases (but intend to get one eventually), along with the progressive scan DVD player (36" wega should last a while, no).

What I'm basically interested in are some pictures of a progressive scan dvd player connected to an HDTV. Does anyone have any pictures (high res preferred) of what a progressive scan DVD's output is over a component video (RGB)? My existing DVD player is the Xbox with the component video and that replaced my Sony DVD player with the same output. While I know the output is excellent, I want to know "how much better" it would be with HDTV and a progressive scan player.

vash
 
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damn i wish my philly rat hole had nice landscape like your's. . .

i have a city street and a few homeless. .

-Steve
 
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