New Wide Screen

New Wide Screen

I put my dog in front of the tv to give you a good idea of how ginormous it is..

EDIT: oh yea, we also got a Bose sound system for it too. It only comes with two component speakers and a sub (included in picture) but its incredibly loud and has zero distortion.



BEFORE 60" Big Screen


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AFTER 73" Bigger Wide Screen

damn!

once you go wide you'd never go back.

wow 73" that wide I got the same Bose sound system too in my house

I am not a fan of projection TV's, but that is a big screen. I hope the room is big enough to enjoy it.

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That first pic does not look like a projection tv, but an LCD. I take a LCD first, then a plasma, then a projection TV. I was watching National Geographic HDTV over the weekend on a SOny 60" LCD Projection TV and the text was not as sharp, and it bleeded into te other colors (red over yellow). On my 32" LCD HDTV it is crisp and clear, and the viewing angle is so much better.

Projection TV's only look best when looked straight on, hence my comment on having a big enough room for it.

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i have a consumer reports magazine and it just gives a big spill on what you should know about buying some of the new technology televisions....its good reading..

I was watching at ~<45 degrees, ata round 6 feet distance. It was OK, but not the clearest pic.

Here at work we have 2 70" Samsung LCd projection TV's, and they are just OK.

This is all subjective of course, but from my experience I rather sacrifice size over quality.

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i don't understand going over 50" for a tv unless you will be 15'+ away. the picture quality will look worse if the tv is too large for the room and it will be harder to see everything on the screen.

I agree 100% with you, plus I hate to be the dude sitting on the corner of that couch right next to the TV:



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dammmn..how much was the 70" tv?

Plasma is great but it can burn into the screen

ur funny e,i had to hurry up because i had to get back to work we had a small 32 inch plasma the biatch burned and everytime you turn off the TV you could see the imprint it left of the picture. we got rid of it and now have a nice 40inch my room, i still hate my parents 72inch Sony Plasma, cost them a pretty penny but hey its my mom, she's got the bucks for it, i just have a simple 20' CRT monitor in my barracks does the job pretty good for being a japanese monitor and since electronics are cheaper basically you get more for the money.BLAH!!!!!!!! i'm tired forgive me for the long writing.

Well, if you have regular cable then the picture quality wont be the greatest. But we're getting digital cable cuz all channels on that has digital high-def. And not to mention movies on this screen are seamless. No matter if you're sitting 5 feet or 20 feet away from our tv, the fact that the tv is a 73 inch wide screen never leaves your mind because quality and size never diminish no matter how far you sit. If you could afford it, im sure you'd be lookin at size and quality equal to something like we have too.

Actually its a 73". My parents wont tell me how much it was seperately (tv, table stand, sound system). The whole reason we got a bigger screen was because:
-our old 60" big screen was starting to go out two days before you opted to go for a newer screen
-we already had a 60" before, my dad thought why downgrade. The whole reason we got the 60" to begin with was for size and we bought the highest quality 60 we could find back then. Size and quality were still the two main factors to look at when they went shopping for this one too...

that seat is actually far enough away to not be out of the viewing area. The picture is still pretty clear from that angle. But my dad wants to rearrange our furniture sometime soon. I think they said that we're gonna buy some other furniture before that happens tho.

Only reason I have a cable box is because over the air signal in my area sucks. Wel actually two reasons, the other one being that I use their DVR box which has completely changed my viewing experience for the best.

I also like the simplicity of the HDMI connection that the HD box offers, but I hate the copy proection that it implements, and how it hinders the use of switching devices to allow multiple inputs. I am fighting with this issue right now with my SA 8300HD box.

With that said I will be adding a computer pretty soon to my mix to be able to enjoy the LCD screen to round up my HTPC package.

Also the 32" lcd's have the best ratio when it comes to pixel shape. Once you got higher than 40" pixels are slightly distorded due tot he size of the screen. With that said the biggest I would go would probably be a 46" LCD TV.

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well, i can afford one that big so what does that mean? when i purchased my tv it was something that fit my living space. a 73" tv in that size of room is over kill and is hard to focus on the whole picture. there is no way to be able to focus on the whole picture if your 5feet away from the tv at that size. sure it is nice to have a big tv, but it sounds like your family just wants to be able to say they have a 73" tv unless your the one that just wants to say it. hd channels will always be clear depending on the technology, but regular channels will distort at a close distance.

dish has a hd package that will give you about 25 hd channels.

how do you dispose your old tv considering its 60"?

yeah we had a first gen, the one they have now was just recently purchased in November of 06'

120" is the way to go