On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Andrew Close <<a href="mailto:aclose@gmail.com">aclose@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
hey all,<br>
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i've been given the 'ok' from the CFO to upgrade our 10yo CRT to a<br>
modern day LCD HDTV.<br>
currently, 95% of what we watch is SD content captured by Myth. the<br>
other 5% is DVD and Internet content. i know that a lot of the<br>
earlier HDTV's really struggled to make SD video watchable. is that<br>
still the case?<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I have a 52" Sharp Aquos (LC52D62U). I love it, but I'd have a hard time recommending it to anyone else. Sharp is notorious for banding issues (do a quick search on AVSforum). I returned my set twice because the banding was unacceptable. The third set is acceptable, but still suffers from slight banding that is visible only if I look at a flat gray screen. Other than that, contrast is acceptable for an LCD, and HD content looks incredible.<br>
<br>SD scaling is pretty much irrelevant if you're using Myth. My computer scales everything to the native resolution of my TV (1920x1080@60Hz), so the TV doesn't do any scaling at all. The computer does a better job scaling (upconverting) regular DVD's than my HD-DVD player does. <br>
<br>-darren<br></div></div><br>