[Archived] Hd Lcd Tvs

[ihateburnley]

Having a look around for a new 1080p LCD TV. Budget is flexible, but something around the £500-£600 seems to be the going rate. 37" would probably be optimal for the living room.

[ihateburnley]

...my shortlist so far:

Sense 42" £547

Panasonic Viera £552

[Sandiway Blue]

http://www.tjhughes.co.uk/Technology/Televisions?page=1

Some nice bargains here with the sony bravia being within your budget.

[Guest Kamy100]

Slighty more expensive but one of the best 1080p LCD TV's on the market:

Sony 40" KDLW4000

[dave birch]

I've had a Sony Bravia 40" "X" series for six months now. Absolutely brilliant, easy to set up and tweak to a performance that suits you.

[BuckyRover]

I have the 32inch Viera, it is brilliant

[Hughesy]

I got a 40" Samsung last week which is spot on.

[Tris]

Slighty more expensive but one of the best 1080p LCD TV's on the market:

Sony 40" KDLW4000

We got a W4000 in July, very very good TV.

[den]

Anyone interested enough, to have thoughts on what to set your HD box to? I've had mine running at 1080i since I got HD, but recently I've been running on 720p, simply because it's a progressive scan. It does seem to be better on that output. Maybe you people just have better things to worry about?

Anyway, for people who don't know what I'm talking about, This explains it.

So which output do you have your box set to, - and why?

[T4E]

I have the 32inch Viera, it is brilliant

That's not a TV, thats a monitor!

[Guest Kamy100]

I tend to watch fast moving images (ie football) on 720p, mainly because 1080i is not good for that kind of stuff as the signal has to be deinterclated before it is displayed on your TV. For images that aren't fast moving (ie documentarys, most TV serials) I tend to watch them on 1080i because of the extra resolution that 1080i offers.

There is some good discussion in the thread below regarding this:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthr...t=1080i+or+720p

[Ste B]

600 quid for a Sony Bravia with 5yr Warranty from John Lewis HERE

[1864roverite]

With Hughsey on thbis one, youc ant beat a 40 inch Samsung, pure quality and you will get a deal.

[Ossydave]

Samsung and Sony use exactly the same screens from exactly the same factory and 90% of the same components. Source - one of Sonys top Uk salesmen.

The difference? Just the cost.

[den]

Samsung and Sony use exactly the same screens from exactly the same factory and 90% of the same components. Source - one of Sonys top Uk salesmen.

The difference? Just the cost.

Not the only difference. The 10% not mentioned will be the "engine", or processor and software/firmware. All computers and TV's use pretty much the same components, but the main "bit", - the processor and software/firmware, are what you pay for. and that's what makes a huge difference. At the end of the day, a modern TV is a computer, - and all computers don't behave the same as each other do they?

[dave birch]

At the time I bought my SONY TV I was told that the "top end" ("X" and "XBR") screens were made in Japan, and the rest in Korea (I think).

Not sure about any releases since.

[adopted scouser]

Picked up a 37" Toshiba, 1080 pixel jobby for £499. It's great

[Hughesy]

With Hughsey on this one, you cant beat a 40 inch Samsung, pure quality and you will get a deal.

Dixons are selling a 40" one at the minute for £550.

[Hughesy]

40" Sony deal here. Bravia with 5 year gaurantee Just £585

Sony Deal

[gillibrand]

Plasmas have a much better picture for SD quality, but are more expensive, all HD TVs have a great picture when showing HD content!

[Ste B]

40" Sony deal here. Bravia with 5 year gaurantee Just £585

Sony Deal

+ 20 quid delivery.. the john lewis link works out cheaper in the end

[Ricky]

Friend of mine has a 720p screen and was advised by the guy at Comet to set his PS3 to display at 1080p as it would get the best out of his screen.

Surely that's not right is it.

[Guest Kamy100]

You are right Ricky.

If he has a 720p screen he won't be able to set PS3 to 1080p, most 720p TV's also have 1080i so he could run it that. To be honest though 99.9% of games have a native resolution of 720p anyway so running and 1080i or 1080p wouldn't show any difference.

[Anti-Dingle-Brigade]

No, the PS3 would detect it was 720 and give him the option to choose "Optimal Settings", which would be 720.

[Ricky]

My PS3 has automatically set itself to 1080i, I'm tempted to change it to 720p now after reading some of the comments on digital spy forum that Kamy posted a link to on the previous page.