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OK vote on your favorite kind of HDTV and explain why you like it. (Try to explain the technical aspects of why you prefer your TV type over something else).
I posted CRT HDTV. Most people who read that will go "CRT IS TEH SUXORS!!!!11!" On the contrary, they are the best. CRTs have the best contrast ratio, and are part analog, which is better than digital..then you people will go "ANALOG!!????1 YOU SUX!!!" I'll explain:
Do most of you people know how a TV actually works?? I mean an HDTV. Well..lets say you buy a DVD-upconverter player (which is just a DVD player but can upconvert the signal to an HD signal). The signal running through the component cables is encoded which gets sent to your HDTV Microchip which decodes the signal and then encodes the signal again to be sent to the CRT. Then inside the CRT, there are 3 electron guns which blasts the signal on to your CRT screen with HDTV quality picture..very simple process. The 3 electron guns are the analog part of the system, which is much better than projection and plasma and LCD.
With a Plasma TV, you get a crappy contrast ratio and if you mishandle the TV (ie. turn the TV upside down or sideways or lay it flat) you destroy your TV and voiding your warrenty.
LCD TV's also have a bad contrast ratio and if you buy a cheap one, you get a very crappy resolution, even with HD signals.
DLP's are a strange type of TV which uses a colour wheel to create the images on the screen. Again the contrast ratio is not all that great, and you get good vertical resoluton, but you get crappy horizontal resolution, which means, if you were playing a game with an HD resolution, and you move your eyes side to side, you'll see ghosting while moving your eyes up and down, you don't see anything wrong.
Projection TV's (LCD or normal) project an image on the screen via a reflector at the back of the TV which flips the image then transmits it to your screen. Because your image is being reflected, most of light will focus near the middle of the TV, so if your watching it from an angle, you get really bad contrast ratio, and you need a big room because these TV's are ment for the viewer to sit far away from the TV for best picture quality.
I posted CRT HDTV. Most people who read that will go "CRT IS TEH SUXORS!!!!11!" On the contrary, they are the best. CRTs have the best contrast ratio, and are part analog, which is better than digital..then you people will go "ANALOG!!????1 YOU SUX!!!" I'll explain:
Do most of you people know how a TV actually works?? I mean an HDTV. Well..lets say you buy a DVD-upconverter player (which is just a DVD player but can upconvert the signal to an HD signal). The signal running through the component cables is encoded which gets sent to your HDTV Microchip which decodes the signal and then encodes the signal again to be sent to the CRT. Then inside the CRT, there are 3 electron guns which blasts the signal on to your CRT screen with HDTV quality picture..very simple process. The 3 electron guns are the analog part of the system, which is much better than projection and plasma and LCD.
With a Plasma TV, you get a crappy contrast ratio and if you mishandle the TV (ie. turn the TV upside down or sideways or lay it flat) you destroy your TV and voiding your warrenty.
LCD TV's also have a bad contrast ratio and if you buy a cheap one, you get a very crappy resolution, even with HD signals.
DLP's are a strange type of TV which uses a colour wheel to create the images on the screen. Again the contrast ratio is not all that great, and you get good vertical resoluton, but you get crappy horizontal resolution, which means, if you were playing a game with an HD resolution, and you move your eyes side to side, you'll see ghosting while moving your eyes up and down, you don't see anything wrong.
Projection TV's (LCD or normal) project an image on the screen via a reflector at the back of the TV which flips the image then transmits it to your screen. Because your image is being reflected, most of light will focus near the middle of the TV, so if your watching it from an angle, you get really bad contrast ratio, and you need a big room because these TV's are ment for the viewer to sit far away from the TV for best picture quality.
