Fat screen TV advice.

I'm seriously looking at getting a flat screen tv for the lounge but don't really know too much about em.

With tis in mind I'm asking the org for some advice on what to buy.

I'm looking for a tv over 32" and under £500. The Hannspree 37" has been recommended before and is in the running but I'm after some more to choose from.

Cheers

[Bluepete]

Can't recommend these guys highly enough. Anything on there is good, they don't sell ****e.

[Balky001]

I bought a Samsung 37 inch LCD before Christmas, price ranges from ?500 - ?650. It's good enough for me, very happy with it for the price

http://ask.pricerunner.com/pl/2-9123...Compare-Prices

What are yo using it for?

Will you.........

be using Sky HD?
Any type of HD console?
HD media player (Blu Ray or HDDVD)?

If so and you can afford to, try to get a 1080P TV. They are about ?700 - ?800.
If you don't plan using it for any kind of HD output (i.e you will use standard TV) it's a waste of money, you really won't get any benefit right now. In fact standard definition TV usually looks worse on HDTV's. Unless of course you need to save space or just really want one because you like them (which is fair enough).

[Bluepete]

Can someone who KNOWS what's what, tell me why 1080p is so much better than 1080i? My PS3 upscales std DVD's to 1080i and they look better, but I have heard that 1080p is waaay better. Care to explain?

Cheers, Pete

Originally Posted by BluePete

Can someone who KNOWS what's what, tell me why 1080p is so much better than 1080i? My PS3 upscales std DVD's to 1080i and they look better, but I have heard that 1080p is waaay better. Care to explain?

Cheers, Pete

Basically.......oh well there is no such thing really.

Okay, 'i' means interlaced and 'p' means progressive scan. Intetlaced draws the screen in fields while......oh heck, just read this:
http://www.canopus.com/canopus/techn...interlaced.php

1080P has a resolution of 1920x1080 which is good. Very, very good.

And a note on upscaling. BAsically just beacause it's upscaled doesn't make it better:
A video upscaler is an algorithmic processing device for converting video signals between one arbitrary resolution/aspect-ratio and another resolution/aspect-ratio. In their most common application they are "upscaling" or "upconverting", taking a low resolution (Standard Definition) video and increasing the resolution to a high resolution (High Definition) video. This does not necessarily mean that the picture becomes clearer/more detailed - as scalers in their simplest form only increase the sample points for the original signal resulting in more data points for the original given information. Better scaling devices include other signal conditioning to maintain the original signal details when increasing the resolution. This also does not mean that placing a video scaler before a limited-capability display device will remove the limitations of that display device (for instance, you can?t make a 720p display take a 1080p signal and expect to see all 1920x1080 pixels on the 1280x720 display surface). Confusion is caused within the general public, due to how little is understood about video scalers and where they are used. Manufacturers of digital displays (DLP, LCD, LCOS or ?SXRD?, Plasma) don?t tell customers that there is a simple video scaler built into their display which accepts a video signal and converts it to what the display is expecting.
These devices are primarily digital, however ? a video scaler can be combined with an Analog-to-Digital-Converter (ADC, or digitizer) and a Digital-to-Analog-Converter (DAC) to support analog inputs and outputs.
The ?native resolution? of a display, is how many physical pixels make up each row and column of the visible area on the display?s output surface. Since not every video signal in use in the world is exactly the same resolution (and neither are all of the displays), some form of resolution change (video scaling) is required. For example, within the United States, there are NTSC, ATSC, and VESA video standards each with several video formats. The most common example of a video scaler implementation is within a standard desktop monitor, which converts a VGA (640x480 pixels) signal from a computer into a digital signal with a digitizer and then sends the 640x480 pixels into the video scaler to be upscaled to SXGA (1280x1024 pixels) for display on a monitor with 1280x1024 physical pixel on the TFT glass; in this case the resolution outputted by the computer would only use approximately 25% of the actual pixels without a scaler. By upscaling the computer?s output to the native resolution of the TFT glass, the image fills the whole screen without any black pixels surrounding the active image content.

samsung.

Originally Posted by phil24_7

I'm seriously looking at getting a flat screen tv for the lounge but don't really know too much about em.

With tis in mind I'm asking the org for some advice on what to buy.

I'm looking for a tv over 32" and under £500. The Hannspree 37" has been recommended before and is in the running but I'm after some more to choose from.

Cheers

I got the hanspree 37inch. Works fantastically, well worth ?375quid.

But im a tight bas***d.

Dan

[tigersaw]

Got 2 philips, a samsung and a sony. All good, but the sound is rubbish on the samsung.