So I bought a new TV today (With pics)

[pmoa]

hope you enjoy it man! dont let anyone talk ish about your new set. MAJOR improvement

 

[0roo0roo]

aint progress grand?

now wheres my flying car..

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: CaesaR
Any reason why you picked this over the 61" DLP? I don't know much about these technical specs and thats why the question

The DLP's color was lacking. This plasma screen really jumped out at me. It's very bright and very colorful. It doesn't come across in the photograph, of course.

Go to Best Buy or Circuit City or whatever and look at the difference in a rear-projection TV and a plasma. There's just no comparing them.

LCD, DLP, RPTV > Plasma
Weak sauce, congrats though.

I don't know, some of the DLPs looked nice, some looked like crap. The display that I got was a nice combination of price and quality. Trust me, I got five other people with me and we all agreed on this TV. Maybe our local BB had some kind of bootleg connections to their DLPs? I don't know. I and everyone around me appears to have some kind of strange eye disease, because none of us see ghosting on my LCD monitor, and some of ATs finest argue that it's there and it's really bad. Maybe I live in some other dimension.

The LCDs were more expensive and had huge dot pitches. Hands down, the best looking displays in the store were all plasma.

Sound is coming from my roomate. He's going to be getting some kind of 5.1 setup. The racing chair is my roomate's little cousin's gaming chair. It's by the wall because we need to throw it out.

 

[Kenazo]

We had trouble with burn in on a projection TV back when I worked sales at sears a few years ago. The demo we were running had some sort of progress bar at the bottom that burned right in. After that anything else you watched on there had a progress bar.

 

[Special K]

Do the displays they have set up in retail stores always do the TV's justice? I always remember going back to the BB monitor section and seeing high-end monitors look like crap because they would be using 60 Hz refresh rate, washed out color scheme, low resolution, etc. It made it impossible to tell what the monitor would actually look like when connected to a decent vid card and set up correctly.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
now unhook that Nintendo box from underneath, and everything will be ok

um no, the only thing wrong with it is that he doesn't have Wavebirds.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Special K
Do the displays they have set up in retail stores always do the TV's justice? I always remember going back to the BB monitor section and seeing high-end monitors look like crap because they would be using 60 Hz refresh rate, washed out color scheme, low resolution, etc. It made it impossible to tell what the monitor would actually look like when connected to a decent vid card and set up correctly.

Yes, they are always setup super crappily unless you are in a specialty home theater store. And don't listen to anybody that tells you other diplays have better color than a plasma, because they are only matched by CRT.

Turn down your contrast, get your brightness set and your color/tint and you're good to go.

A good test is HD orange and yellow and purple. It should really 'pop" when it's right. Just go out and pick up the avia setup DVD.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: CaesaR
Any reason why you picked this over the 61" DLP? I don't know much about these technical specs and thats why the question

The DLP's color was lacking. This plasma screen really jumped out at me. It's very bright and very colorful. It doesn't come across in the photograph, of course.

Go to Best Buy or Circuit City or whatever and look at the difference in a rear-projection TV and a plasma. There's just no comparing them.

LCD, DLP, RPTV > Plasma
Weak sauce, congrats though.

I don't know, some of the DLPs looked nice, some looked like crap. The display that I got was a nice combination of price and quality. Trust me, I got five other people with me and we all agreed on this TV. Maybe our local BB had some kind of bootleg connections to their DLPs? I don't know. I and everyone around me appears to have some kind of strange eye disease, because none of us see ghosting on my LCD monitor, and some of ATs finest argue that it's there and it's really bad. Maybe I live in some other dimension.

The LCDs were more expensive and had huge dot pitches. Hands down, the best looking displays in the store were all plasma.

Sound is coming from my roomate. He's going to be getting some kind of 5.1 setup. The racing chair is my roomate's little cousin's gaming chair. It's by the wall because we need to throw it out.

Don't let him get to you- DLPs only work well in darkened rooms. If you have a lot of windows or ambient light, they're going to fade.

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Special K
Do the displays they have set up in retail stores always do the TV's justice? I always remember going back to the BB monitor section and seeing high-end monitors look like crap because they would be using 60 Hz refresh rate, washed out color scheme, low resolution, etc. It made it impossible to tell what the monitor would actually look like when connected to a decent vid card and set up correctly.

heh yea they tend to be all messed up, by the customers and the employees, theres a general disregard for how the tvs are setup. its getting a little better since they now want to show their special advertisements and stuff they loop.
oddly enough some of the better setup tv's i've seen were at costco nice dazzling display of flat panel hd greets you at the door of one i go to.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: richardycc

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
nothing like purchasing an outdated set...and plasma at that.

what do you have big boy? the next lastest and greatest for plasma is 1080p, which is $8-10k for a 50incher.

here is my samsung hp-s5073,but I've exchanged it for a panny 50px600u due to buzzing noise with the samsung.

Dave Matthews FTmf'nW

 

[Zap Brannigan]

Now thats a sweet upgrade! Congrats!

 

[Ramma2]

Pic

Congrats on the new plasma! Just joined myself last week.

 

[Tbirdkid]

I dont think you need to spend that much on a surround sound system. Not unless you want your neighbors to hear that stuff and complain. I built mine. I got a Pioneer deck, and a 6.1 yamaha speaker setup. Mine max was 300.

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
nothing like purchasing an outdated set...and plasma at that.

As opposed to the 13" in your mom's basement?

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
I dont think you need to spend that much on a surround sound system. Not unless you want your neighbors to hear that stuff and complain. I built mine. I got a Pioneer deck, and a 6.1 yamaha speaker setup. Mine max was 300.

You don't have to spend anything

Since his friend is taking care of the system, all I have to say is don't let him get ripped off.

 

[brikis98]

hell of an upgrade, congrats.

 

[Kaido]

Nice TV Ignore the haters and enjoy your new toy, they're just jealous :evil:

Is your Xbox modded yet?

 

[CTrain]

Nice.

Personally though, if I was going to get a plasma, I would have gotten the Vizio at Costco for $1299.
Lifetime waranty goes with bying it from Costco
Although I like the look of the HP better...all black and I hope the speakers are detachable.

 

[ballmode]

neato

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: CTrain
Nice.

Personally though, if I was going to get a plasma, I would have gotten the Vizio at Costco for $1299.
Lifetime waranty goes with bying it from Costco
Although I like the look of the HP better...all black and I hope the speakers are detachable.

I don't think that they have Costco around here. I've never seen one in my life. Are they just a west coast thing?

 

[MrChad]

Make sure you break that plasma in properly!

There's some good advice in this whitepaper (PDF).

 

[daveymark]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: CaesaR
Any reason why you picked this over the 61" DLP? I don't know much about these technical specs and thats why the question

The DLP's color was lacking. This plasma screen really jumped out at me. It's very bright and very colorful. It doesn't come across in the photograph, of course.

Go to Best Buy or Circuit City or whatever and look at the difference in a rear-projection TV and a plasma. There's just no comparing them.

Not without my Avia

 

[Chaotic42]

The best thing about the purchase experience was the BB guys trying to push the Monster cables. The freaking $140 Monster cables.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
The best thing about the purchase experience was the BB guys trying to push the Monster cables. The freaking $140 Monster cables.

monoprice.com ftw

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
The best thing about the purchase experience was the BB guys trying to push the Monster cables. The freaking $140 Monster cables.

Yep. Two things Worst Buy always pushes. Service Plans and Monster Cables, ROFL