Posted on 09/01/2012 12:38:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sony Corp. has announced that it will begin the phased launch of its latest Bravia LCD television in all global regions from the end of the year. The new Bravia boasts a 84" LCD panel with 4K (3840*2160) resolution. The TV incorporates Sony's “4K X-Reality Pro” super-resolution high picture quality engine. Sony follows LG Electronics with its 4K ultra high-definition TV-set (UHDTV) and both are driving the new level of visual perfection to the masses.
The new 84” Bravia 4K LCD TV comes equipped with a panel comprising approximately 8.29 megapixels (52 ppi), which is 4 times the resolution of Full HD standard, and incorporates special 4K X-Reality Pro video processor optimized for 4K TV. This engine is capable of upconverting a variety of content (including that in stereo-3D) with different resolutions, such as HD digital broadcasts or Blu-ray discs content, into crisp, high-quality images with 4K resolution. The UDHTV also comes with "10 unit live speaker" 50W side speaker system, with Sony's own signal-processing technology to provide accurate three-dimensional sound.
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My parents have a 36” tube type TV. When they bought that I thought “what the heck do you want that monstrosity for?” Now I have a 54 inch flat screen and I think they are complete fools. My TV before my 54” was a 21”(?) tube type. I gave it to my parents and they put it in their spare room. I’m actually thinking about giving them my 54” flatscreen and buying a new TV at least 70”.
yea.. “why is this so fuzzy?”.. umm, you need to go to the HD channel honey.. then she claims the same thing.. “I can’t tell the difference” but she tells me the difference.
it’s a work in progress.
I remember taking my wife to Crazy Eddie’s back in 1987 to look for a new TV and coming home with a Hitachi 50” rear projection TV, just because it looked so cool back in that dark display room where we first laid eyes on it. Thing lasted almost 5 years and only needed a $400 repair once.
Suppose you’re flipping through channels and you see a full face picture of say, Rosanne Barr, with every nose hair in super HD. Then what? You’d never be the same.
It is interesting how some people notice a real contrast between regular and HD. I am one of those who doesn’t see it. Friend of mine gave me a Blu-Ray player and set the whole thing up and exclaimed, “You won’t believe the difference!” So he popped in a Blu-Ray disc and was practically jumping up and down at how awesome the picture was. “Is that great or what?” “Wow, that’s cool!,” I replied as I pretended to notice a diffference.
(shrug)
I just don’t see it. But then, I don’t much give a crap about “crystal clarity” as long as the story and acting are good and the picture is reasonably clear and steady. Heck, I still enjoy grainy old black-and-white films just fine, too. To each his own, I guess.
Meanwhile, I'm enjoying football on my 40" Sony flat panel TV right now.
I sure hope Michigan wasn’t your team tonight. Ouch!
The screen resolution gives you the aspect ratio.
Thanks for pointing that out! I needed the practice and math like anything else slips away if you don't use it now and again...
Regards,
GtG
I think Sears or somebody has a two pair for the price of one on this week, may I suggest you visit their optometrist.
I have a 55 inch TV I am using for a computer monitor, just visit a few YouTube links and set the resolution as you like, if you don't see the difference then you are functionally blind and should not drive a car. :)
LMBO!!! And you think I'm blind?
During my vacation this week I got by with a little iPod Touch for my internet. (Okay - I did do that 'spread-out-two-fingers-to-make-the-letters-bigger' thing, but hey.. )
I’ve a TV screen about that size. Front projection, that is. Very cheap.
It retracts from the ceiling, and yes, it dominates a whole wall in a fairly large room. It’s super-distracting when it’s not in the ceiling.
But 32 inches used to be huge... and now they seem tiny... so who knows... maybe 52 inches will be considered tiny in the future.
ZOMG! I can hardly wait to buy one of these so I can watch reruns of The Bachelor and Glee. That will be so cool!
/s
That it does. I started researching wide screen TVs around 12-13 years ago and grew tired of the repetitive calculations so I just built a spreadsheet to calculate the dimensions and comparable sizes.
Some depends on the native resolution of the TV. I have a Panasonic PT-50LC13, pushing 10 years now. It displays everything in 720p, a 1080i signal is good but not really any better. Where it really shines is watching sports on an over the air signal when the source material is also 720p. Even my eyes can tell the difference then.
About 20 time the resolution of my 55 inch TV. :)
I have had some surgeries on my eyes, they helped, but the days of reading the fine print on the old pill bottle is over. I can in a pinch read FreeRepublic on my iPhone, but I prefer using a different browser than Safari that lets me enlarge the fonts.
I use about have the screen width for my Browser and that enables me to run TV in a quarter of the screen and another browser in the other quarter. I still have to use Zoom a lot even with this setup.
Since Mountain Lion will not let me change fonts in Safari I have switched to FireFox and run it with 44 point Casual font. The less heavy fonts cause real eyestrain for me because I have wrinkled retinas.
I have the last year made model of the Toshiba 57” DLP, its a 1080P reverse projection widescreen, it uses a special lamp that at first lasted less than a year, and then over time the inside reflector picked up dust and even a spider web, but I always keep a spare lamp for it which are better and cleaned the inside. This was their top of the line model from some years ago. Bluray kicks wild on it.
I love it, I also have a 50” plasma in the house, though it has better reds and its brighter the DLP still performs very good.
www.roku.com
I would so buy this IF it would fit in our home entertainment wall system.
Hope it lasts longer than our Sony TV has. It’s about 5 years old and there are all sorts of lines and shadows on the screen. Won’t buy another TV from Sony.
Love Cowboy Staduim (& the screens)!
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