[BNM] [OT] Big TV recommendations, and is 1080 worth it?

[John Cooper]

so make sure you try and view the tv's with the same signal coming in
also most LCD's will have an option to smooth out the artifacts &  
noise, makes sure that's switched on -
jc


On 8 Apr 2008, at 17:49, Jay Caines-Gooby wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Jonathan Hirsch  
> <jon at hirschworks.com> wrote:
>
>> On which subject, while HD does look good, normal TV is definitely
>> not as good as through a CRT, IMHO. Noticeable artifacts, especially
>> on fast-moving footage (which is odd, since it copes fine with the
>> games consoles). I suspect that's just a trait of LCDs though
>
> Yep, because LCDs show more detail than an analogue scanning CRT.
>
> Standard broadcast TV (ie. non HD) is a pretty crappy resolution
> (720x576) or by the time you view it, effectively 720x480. Also the
> additional compression process (MPEG-2 or MPEG-4) used by your digital
> provider (Sky, Virgin, Freeview) adds all those blocky compression
> artifacts. The analogue interlaced scanning process used by CRTs to
> draw the frames smears the detail and gives you an ok picture. LCDs
> give you better definition so you see all this cack more clearly :D
>
>
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