Posted on 02/19/2008 9:02:21 AM PST by Vigilanteman
Probably will have other disagree with me, however:
Blu-Ray should have better sound quality. But, my question would be is how old is your sound system. Best Buy has the best on display, and positioned by professionals to make it sound great. Like having a bottled water stand in the desert.
My Denon 7Ch does much better then my Harmon Kardon 5.1.
The war between consumer’s wallets and what the bluray manufacturers charge for their players will continue on for a long time however.
Yes. It depends on the channel, of course, as some only broadcast in 720p (I'm looking at you, Fox and ESPN).
Look at lots of screens to see what you like best. Depending on the technology, some pictures favor blue hues, others favor reds. Watch out on the HDMI connection. Many vendors tout 1080p HDMI, but don't tell you they are only supporting the hi-res video. The device needs to support audio over HDMI as well. The higher rate bitstreams can't be accomodated over the coaxial or TOS (optical) paths. The really critical issue is synchronizing the video with the audio. Before I upgraded my receiver, the audio and video were not synced. It gave the appearance of a foreign movie dubbed into another language. The technical term used by the Pioneer receiver devices is "phase control".
I bought a 1080p 42" LCD in December for $950 plus tax.
I don’t have any sound system - he showed us the Definitive Technology Procinema 60 5.1 with a Denon 525W 7.1 receiver. It sounded great but I have no clue about these kinds of things and began to wonder if I was going to lose the great sound by having a regular DVD player. The whole setup with a Denon Ipod Dock is going to be about $1300.
We haven’t traded in our old DVR yet, but I am planning to do so this week. FOX and ESPN are two of the most watched stations in our house. We really don’t watch that much tv.
We had no tv for about nine months, while we were building this house and just got out of the habit. We do listen to the XM radio on the tv, though. That’s most of what we watch, FOX, sports, old movies, and XM radio.
You did well, even COSTCO didn’t have those kind of prices.
OK, I give up. Was post 15 in HD or BluRay? Or was it post 16? You’re right. You can’t tell the difference :-)
I still treat all my optical media with care. The HD-DVD crashes all happened because of a fingerprint on the surface of the disk. I even had one factory fresh disk that arrived with a fingerprint. Very annoying. Cleaning the HD-DVD disk cleared the problem in every case. I haven't had a single crash of the BluRay disk. I will note that the initial firmware load on the Sony BDP-S300 had a terrible time switching from one chapter to the next on regular DVDs. That was remedied by upgrading the firmware. It's very simple. Just download the file from the Sony support site, burn a CDROM of the image and "play" the disk in the player. The BDP-S300 updates the firmware and hard disk images inside the device. It takes about 10 minutes. The device ejects the disk drawer upon completion. Very simple.
Hmmmm, I bought a 42" 1080p LCD in June of 2007 for $999. VERY much lower than your $3000 price tag. Perhaps you should look to see what's out there now. You appear to be quoting prices from mid-2006 with respect to the TVs. Though you appear to be A LOT closer with the prices of the bluray players.
That's where I bought mine as well. They do have sales.
Ah, I note that you have LCD. The new sets are all LED, whatever that means. I was told that they weren’t going to make LCDs any longer.
“You need to go shopping again. I paid $2200 for the 37” 1080p Mitsubishi HDTV last year. Prices are even lower now.”
Much lower. I paid $1,360 for a Sony 40” 1080p a month or two ago.
Maybe your Costco has better merchandizing than ours. We didn’t even have (p) sets.
I think you need to investigate a little more. I think someone stretched the truth a little there. There are lots of “new and improved” tech coming out with respect to HDTVs, but it will be a while before they stop making LCDs.
Well, I guess a Circuit City salesman might not be the best source of information. LOL!
which brings up an interesting question.
How long till spinning disks are gone entirely?
You can by a 1gb sd chip for 5-10 dollars if you shop around.
4 gb chips are now 30 dollars and falling.
512 mb jump drives are freebie giveaways.
With high end monitors with sd slots why would we need a “player”?
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