The future of the C.R.T. tv's

[bre's dad]

Originally Posted by dr.ido

I haven't seen any CRT sets sold here with built in digital tuners. You can still buy a new 80cm 16:9 CRT set here, but the built in tuner is analog even on the upper end model with a built DVD player and surround sound. When analog transmissions are turned off even the bottom end of the market will be LCD for those who want a new set.

About 6 months ago, Sears sold a 4:3 CRT Toshiba with a digital tuner. Dunno if they still do or not as a salesman pissed me off & I haven't been back since. Wal-Mart carried a 32" 4:3 CRT set w/ digital a few months back. Haven't checked if they still do or not as they pick up & drop stuff all the time.

[bre's dad]

I just picked up a 52" Panasonic LCD projection tv that someone left for dead at a thrift store for $99. Called around and found a bulb for $100 (much cheaper than the $240-$380 quoted local & abroad.) Digital signal looks good, analog like crap. Overall, I don't think it is as good as the 50" Mitsubishi projection it replaced, but it looks freakin' awesome watching 300 in 1080i!!!

My dad just bought a 42" Hitachi plasma screen. looks great analog or digital. They don't have a dvd player that supports anything over 480i, so we can't test (until I bring over my upconverting dvd player), but it has a much better picture than either my old Mits or its replacement Panasonic.

It will look good until my 2 year old smacks the screen with something, breaking it and probably having us banned from the house until the kids are at least 16...

[Telecolor 3007]

I went to a hypermarket today and I was horrified by the C.R.T. tv's I saw.
I wanted to get hiered at an electronics shop, but no more - I can't sell people junk - it'll be against my ideas.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by bre's dad

About 6 months ago, Sears sold a 4:3 CRT Toshiba with a digital tuner. Dunno if they still do or not as a salesman pissed me off & I haven't been back since.

My father hated Sears. Seems he had this strange idea that the salesmen should actually know something about the stuff they're selling....

I have a 32'' sony plasma and an lg 26'' hdlcd with a 16ms responce time. that is terrable, but the I find the picture is more impressive on the lcd, (in hd, non hd on the lcd is awful.) as long as the camra is not panning like crazy the motion blur is not substantaly worse than all the other lcd tvs witch even with 8 or 6ms is still noticable. I actually get used to it and action movies ect don't really bother me at all, unless its one of those movies where the camra work is done by sombody with Parkinson's disease wearing roller skates during an earth quake. The plasma has no problem with speed and is closer to a tube imo. like always you get what you pay for, the lcd was $800 the plasma was $1,800 on sale (it was bought a couple years ago)

[Dave A]

[QUOTE=dr.ido;1286782]It hadn't occured to me that the 1st generation plasma sets are almost getting to around 10 years old now. Is anyone else running a "vintage" plasma set?

I have a 1999 Sony PFM-500A2WU 50" plasma that The Phillies paid $12k for that year. It ran in our lobby until the end of 2003 and went into storage. It has a native 852 X 480 res and was looking good the last time I saw it.

It never occured to me that this thing is "vintage". I think I will hold on to it now.

Dave A