HD TV Question

It's almost that wonderful time of year when I buy shit that I really don't need with the tax returns!

We decided (I talked her into) on an HD TV.
How much does the DP really matter? The 720 DPs are cheaper but will I need a 1040 DP?

I got a 42" 1080p HD tv and I love it!!!!!! I don;t know alot about it though but I figured the 1080 looked hella nice in the store versus the 720.

Get the 1080! They can't be that much more. We got mine for a pretty good price. Just a 32 incher Vizio, but the picture is fantastic.

I looked at Vizio and almost bouth one, but Target had a deal on the internet but when I went into the store they said they don;t honor internet price.. I was like its your website!!!! They still gave me hassle so I was like Fuck this! Then I found a 42 inch LG on Amazon for pretty much the same price I was going to get the 37 inch Vizio I was like! SCORE!!!!!!!

The only thing I am not happy about is that it doesn;t have A/V cable audio output but some tos link deal that I have yet to get a cable for to hook up my home theatre.

I'll have to come down to a 32" from the 48" I want but that's koo.
I don't want to buy a 740 and get it home only to realise it ain't much better than my old TV.

I'd be afraid to buy a tv off the internets.

I love how stores don't honor their internet prices, cracks me up. Probably because at each store their prices are a little bit different.

Holy crap, the price is that much different, Texas? Maybe look at a different brand, or a different store?

We've ordered off Amazon for years. I will admit I was a bit worried about shipping, but they are shipped to the stores before you buy them so...... It turned out good. I told the wife to inspect it well before she signed for it.

This chart might help when deciding what kind:

Yeah anything below 35 inches, you might as well get a 720p. My 32 is 720p and it still looks completely high def. It'll probably save you $50-100

sheep wrote:Get the 1080! They can't be that much more. We got mine for a pretty good price. Just a 32 incher Vizio, but the picture is fantastic.

lol we proably have the same TV sheep i bought it a few years ago for $500.

Mines a 720p HD tv it's called a "VP322 HDTV10A"

Mines a 1080 something or other.... I got it for Christmas from the boy 2 years ago. Nice upgrade from my old tv, which was from the 60s probably. It hand handles. lol And it couldn't tell blue from green anymore.

Yeah my brother moved out so i got everything in his room (he had an old fat SDTV using an old chair as a stand for it). Now i got a pretty wood table and a nice TV.

I have really been spoiled by HDTV's. i cant play on SDTV anymore, its just so much better.

He had a chair for a stand?! Thats hilarious.

Zillah wrote:Yeah anything below 35 inches, you might as well get a 720p. My 32 is 720p and it still looks completely high def. It'll probably save you $50-100

then you haven't seen 1080p yet. on my 23" the difference in resolution from bad company 2 (which only supports 720p) to any other game is veeeeeery noticeable. and the bigger the monitor, the more important 1080p becomes.

When I got my new tv it wouldn't fit in my old entertainment center. So I pulled the entertainment center out on the fron porch, got out my circular saw, and had a griswold moment and cut the top and sides off....... Now it works!!!!!! HAHAHA

Valukar wrote:

Zillah wrote:Yeah anything below 35 inches, you might as well get a 720p. My 32 is 720p and it still looks completely high def. It'll probably save you $50-100

then you haven't seen 1080p yet. on my 23" the difference in resolution from bad company 2 (which only supports 720p) to any other game is veeeeeery noticeable. and the bigger the monitor, the more important 1080p becomes.

Yeah i have a second tv which is 50 inches and 1080p. ive played bc2 on it and i really dont notice a difference besides the contrast is too low which makes it look kind of grey.

Resolution wise 720p on a 32 is really sufficient for most games, especially bc2 which only supports 720.

Texas go with the larger screen rather than the higher resolution. I've owned several HD's and resolution is far less important than all the other elements that make up picture quality.
Here's a personal example: $2500+ Sony XBR 1080p LCD vs a $1000 720p Panasonic Plasma. The 720p Panny is noticeably better looking even though it is lower rez.

You will definitely notice the difference in screen size, but unless you're directly comparing sets and looking for it you really won't notice differences in resolution much (unless you're really to close to the set).

Read reviews, but base your decision off of image quality first.

Here's some links for you

http://reviews.cnet.com/720p-vs-1080p-hdtv/

Whether you're dealing with 1080p/24 or standard 1080p/60, doesn't alter our overall views about 1080p TVs. We still believe that when you're dealing with TVs 50 inches and smaller, the added resolution has only a very minor impact on picture quality. In our tests, we put 720p (or 768p) sets next to 1080p sets, then feed them both the same source material, whether it's 1080i or 1080p, from the highest-quality Blu-ray player. We typically watch both sets for a while, with eyes darting back and forth between the two, looking for differences in the most-detailed sections, such as hair, textures of fabric, and grassy plains. Bottom line: It's almost always very difficult to see any difference--especially from farther than 8 feet away on a 50-inch TV.

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=768167

The independent experts all tend to agree on this point.. 1080p is just about the least important factor in picture quality particularly if you are seated outside the physical boundaries where our human eye can no longer discern the resolution differences. This is a sliding distance scale which depends on screen size in relation to seating distance... ...Color accuracy, contrast, black levels, scaling/processing all come before resolution in importance.

Hope that helps.

WOW! Thanks, everyone! I'm set now.