Originally Posted by
JoRoW99
I know that 120hz is overkill/a lie. the eye can only see 30 FPS anyways. contrast ratio matters even less.
It's not overkill per se. It's just that to me, it's not an ideal way to tackle the motion blur problem inherent to LCDs because getting rid of all motion in the background actually ends up giving the picture that cheap "home movie" type look to it. I've seen a bunch of shows with the 120hz and 240hz on, and they ALL look like they've been shot with some ordinary home camcorder as opposed to being shot professionally. Now perhaps that doesn't bother some, but I can't stand how that looks. Totally ruins the feel of the movie to me when the entire film looks like some "behind the scenes" footage.
Originally Posted by
JoRoW99
I know its pretty expensive for a 32" but you aslo have to understand that im watching/playing everythin on a sub 20" CRT right now.
Understood, but keep in mind your 20" CRT is a 4:3 ratio screen. A 32" in 16:9 would literally be no taller than a 25" or so CRT. It would just be wider. You said you want to have this TV for many, many years to come. Knowing how small a 32" would still be, do you think you'd still like it as your main TV when you get out of school?
Originally Posted by
JoRoW99
I will probably start looking at 40"+ 1080p screens.
Good idea, but don't get too caught up in the 1080p thing, either. Even though that's been out far longer than the 3D thing, it still has nearly as little content to take advantage of the feature.
#1 Very, very little HD TV broadcasts are in 1080p. The vast majority are still 720p, and a very compressed 720p at that. Even if it's in 1080p, you're getting it through that same horribly compressed broadcast, so the quality still won't truly be 1080p.
#2 Most video games are in 720p upscaled to 1080i, not p.
#3 With Blu-ray DVDs, only the more recent movies have been transferred in high enough quality to appreciate what HD can do for you. a LOT of the older movies that have been transferred to Blu-ray have been done very poorly. The studios have thrown them together just to say there's a Blu-ray copy of it out there, and since most people don't know better and assume a Blu-ray DVD always = better, they'll buy it all over again even if they already have a DVD copy. In fact, there are websites devoted to rating how good the Blu-ray copies of movies are vs. the original DVDs, and what you'll find quite often on some of the older movies is many reviewers will say the upscaled DVD looks BETTER than the Blu-ray copy.
#4 That aside, even when looking at high quality transfers, the only time the difference between the two resolutions is visible to the human eye is with CG content. Otherwise, very few people could tell the difference between a 720p vs. 1080p picture when viewing them from 8' or further back side by side on a 50" or smaller screen. What's FAR more important is the NATIVE/TRUE contrast (not dynamic, which is useless since there is no standard for those numbers). Picture quality > gimmicky BS.
What I'm getting at is if you can find a great deal on a 1080p, I'd say go for it. But if you find a killer deal on a 720p like I did, I wouldn't turn my nose up at it.
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