*DEAD*42" 720p LG tv from bestbuy..$450 NO WAITING!** BONKERS!

[LongBeachCoupe]

I posted this in NICO gen... but i know lots of you guys dont check there... as if we didnt need something else to spend loot on!http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...50039Just picked one up for my dad... what a score, im not picking up the surround sound or the geek squad

make sure you arent logged into bestbuy... and just dont pickup the surround, but you need to pick up the tv... and its MAGIC!

Then in a few days, call best buy.. and cancel the surround and install (or just wait a week and it will cancel on its own!

Id get on this asap!

Make sure you arent logged into bestbuy before you add it to your cart!

If you dont have a rewardzone card PLEASE use mine! 0394885894

[adidas2go]

Ewwww, 720p? Tv's without 1080p get . No wonder its $450, its already 5 years outdated. Thats hilarious it has 3 hdmi inputs for a 720 projection

[LongBeachCoupe]

Um... its still a good deal.. and most people wont realize the difference btwn a good 720 and a ok 1080... avsforums....

Anyways... its a moneymaker atleast.http://cgi.ebay.com/LG-42LG30-...wItem

And its not a projection tv you navyboy

[mcheddadi]

Ewwww, 720p? Tv's without 1080p get . No wonder its $450, its already 5 years outdated. Thats hilarious it has 3 hdmi inputs for a 720 projection

when you manage to get a broadcast in 1080p we'll talk

I prefer 720p over lame-o 1080i tv broadcasts anyday of the week

[dl_yeunuoc]

42" Sharp 1080p for 799 at Dell online.

[edonissan13]

lol

1080p is only if u have blueray

other than thatyour good with a 720p

[mcheddadi]

it's also good for ps3, xbox 360 , hd-dvd and media center pcs.

know you facts .

but still for normal TV viewing, 720p (1280x720) is fine. 1080p (1920x1080) is soo overkill.

and btw 1080i is soo much fail, it's really just the 540 odd lines and then the other 540 Even lines showing. Interlaced broadcasts are so much full of fail.

[adidas2go]

I have a 60" 1080P that I use with my 360 and HD cable. I can change all of it to work on 720, I've done it before on this tv, and there is a MASSIVE difference.

Theres nothing like watching the football games on HD cable and seeing the blades of grass on every play There is absolutely a huge difference between HD cable (pushed in 1080i through an hdmi cable to my tv) and the traditional 720p component input. Which I am watching the Titans game on right now

[mcheddadi]

1080i is less resolution lines than 720p. on a perfectly calibrated screen you clearly see that the interlaced picture is fail. it flickers and in fast moving sport its even more evident.

since you have a 60" 1080p tv, I'm assuming its a rear projection tv, unless you have PERFECT convergence of your beams, you won't notice the interlacing as much as a fixed resolution LCD or plasma screen.

and also some rear projection tvs advertise 720p compability and 1080i capable, but they downscale the 720p to 480p since 720p is 720lines 60times per second and thats too much for it but 1080i they can do because it's only 540 odd lines 30 times and 540 even lines 30 times per second.

IMO real hd can only be seen on fixed resolution screens. no dlp rear projection anything.

ANYWAYS, just to say that 720p is all good for at least 5 years still.

[adidas2go]

I dunno what in the hell half of what you said means, but, I know switching my tv to 720p mode, and it because far more pixelated and noticeably unclear.

[edonissan13]

Theres nothing like watching the football games on HD cable and seeing the blades of grass on every play

[LongBeachCoupe]

Ive spent around $1500 on stuff to resell on ebay in the past hour or so.. all found thru http://www.slickdeals.net

If you guys wanna get in on some new parts, but dont have the cash... WORK FOR IT!!

[marlin29311]

I posted this in NICO gen... but i know lots of you guys dont check there... as if we didnt need something else to spend loot on!http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ol...50039Just picked one up for my dad... what a score, im not picking up the surround sound or the geek squad

make sure you arent logged into bestbuy... and just dont pickup the surround, but you need to pick up the tv... and its MAGIC!

Then in a few days, call best buy.. and cancel the surround and install (or just wait a week and it will cancel on its own!

Id get on this asap!

Make sure you arent logged into bestbuy before you add it to your cart!

If you dont have a rewardzone card PLEASE use mine! 0394885894

It may be just me, but that's somewhat immoral in my book...

[losenone]

I dunno what in the hell half of what you said means, but, I know switching my tv to 720p mode, and it because far more pixelated and noticeably unclear.

The progressive is much better for anything thats fast moving such as a sports game since the pixels are refreshed in order. Technically NTSC is 59.94 fields per second and thats still really not achieved since most game systems that advertise 60FPS really only achieve about half that.

I have a Sharp 42" LCD 64U series and its wonderful. 25,000:1 DC with 2ms refresh. BUT, my next tv will be the Series 8 Samsung, 1,000,000:1 DC @ 120HZ

[mcheddadi]

I'm never buying dynamic contrast tv ever again lol, I want NATIVE 1 000 000:1 contrast

[LinkNuc]

LOl guys!! Dish Network has offereings in 1080p and guess what the current 1080/24p (most new movies) 1080/60p (games) isn;t even where we'll be as a standard in about 3-5 years, were moving to 12-bit 1080p @120 Hz then to 10-bit 1440p @ 120Hz...in the future anyway to see the benefit of resolution here is a nice graph:

REAL WORLD (Now)• 720p 8-bit 60Hz = 742 Mbps (x3)• 1080p 8-bit 60Hz (24Hz movies) = 1.65 Gbps (x3)

FUTURE WORLD• 1080p 12-bit 120Hz = 4.455 Gbps (x3)• 1440p 12-bit 120Hz = 8.24 Gbps (x3)

http://s3.carltonbale.com/resolution_chart.html

[adidas2go]

Yea, I have Time Warner Cable in HD thats 1080p. I can't say theres anything wrong with it.

[LinkNuc]

Yea, I have Time Warner Cable in HD thats 1080p. I can't say theres anything wrong with it.

I am assuming that that is just On-Demand 1080p offerings, there are no actual channels broadcasting in 1080p on any system yet, the stuff in 1080p is on-demand on Dish Network.

[adidas2go]

Yea the On Demand. I have 1080i channels.

[losenone]

To be honest, most cable companies that advertise 1080 dont really broadcast in true 1080. DirecTV is one of the only ones that actually broadcasts in a true 1080 picture. I forget where i read it, but i will look

[Bmore-coupe]

series 8 Samsung FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bmore-coupe]

To be honest, most cable companies that advertise 1080 dont really broadcast in true 1080. DirecTV is one of the only ones that actually broadcasts in a true 1080 picture. I forget where i read it, but i will look

I work for a cable company, and most of our HD broadcasts are in 1080i.the only difference is, companies like direcTV and FIOS do not carry any kind of analog signal, freeing up a lot of bandwith. So,when you carry a digital and analog simulcast of most of your channels, the HD pic on cable becomes so compressed it looks like crap next to other companies' HD broadcasts.

[adidas2go]

Yea, I just went from direct tv to time warner. No change in picture quality. It most definitely is 1080i though because if I try to change my tv to receive a 1080i signal and its really 720i, like from my xbox, if will start going crazy, and revert back to its previous setting. HDMI cable and all, its 1080i coming from my box

[LinkNuc]

That is false, DirecTV (D*) was the 1st to use compressed or "HD-Lite" broadcasts and have the set-top box decompress into 1080i or 720p. VerizoN FiOS is the only provider to run uncompressed signals now, which some are still compressed from the provider so they can make the claim that they are "uncompressed" becasue verizon doesn't compress them, they just don;t compress or reformat them a 2nd time. doesn't mean they are true 1080i or 720p (some are) most arent.

D* is actually commited to HD-Lite, "It is the broadcast HD-standard", um if you say so, but it does allow them more HD channels than cable (Dish Compresses too)

D* transmits ALL HD channels in HD-lite some in 1280x1080i and other in 1440x1080i.

But if you look at side by sides FiOS has the best HD picture next to Over-The-Air uncompressed transmissions (ATSC)

Ans as fr as cable, you'll notice that Comcast's HD isn' quite as sharp as it used to be, in most markets they are just plain out of room and have to start compressing and moving analogs into the digital spectrum and it still not enough. The lack of MPEG-4 is killing most markets in the cable sector as far as new HD capacity. A full resolution 1080i pic is 1.5Gbps (x3) which essentially sucks up an entire channel i.e. no room for other feeds on that channel.

[LongBeachCoupe]

You gotta jiggle the rabbit ears around a bit to get TRUE HD...

on another note... i bought several sets of scholastic book sets, ps3 remotes and memory cards last night to resell!

[LinkNuc]

That is correct LBC, I can't believe the DirecTV comment, they were the first to get a class action law suit over HD-Lite, they never broadcast in true 1080i...

As a matter of Fact in 2006 (the suit was filed in 2004)

The following was true of broadcast HD bandwidth

#1 - OTA (Duh) Full 19Mbps#2 Comcast/Cox - 12-13 Mbps#3 Dish (E*) - 12 Mbps#4 DirecTV (D*) - 8 Mbps

FiOS wasn;t in the mix at that point or AT&T U-verse...but they'll crush anything but OTA

Oh and here's a nice Comast vs FiOS post...http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1008271

even with the HD-Lite, the fact that Comcast has less than 1/3 the available HD in my area and charges 1/3 more irks me to no end, and the DVR sucks, I'd go back to a satellite company tonight. I miss my ViP622 from Dish Network, but I am screwed until Verizon finishes the Fiber where here by the airport.

Comcast sucks in Pittsburgh, period.

Modified by LinkNuc at 11:41 AM 12/1/2008
Modified by LinkNuc at 11:41 AM 12/1/2008

[maxentropy]

series 8 Samsung FTMFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've got the LN52A650. Love it!!! You must have paid a fortune for your 8 series, but I do like the blue outline...