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I've been wanting a big screen for a long, long time. I know I've posted this before, but I never made a full decision and still feel very uneducated on this.
I've read in several places that for an HDTV, the diagonal of the screen should be equal to half of your viewing distance or one third of your distance for a standard TV. If you get a 48" TV, then you should be sitting about 8 feet away. If it's a crappy standard 48" TV, you should be 12 feet away. Well for "maximum quality" or some BS like that.
From what I can tell, I'll be about 10 feet away from where *I'll* be sitting (screw the other people in the house, I'M paying for it) when I play games. I've been playing at 10 feet away on a 27" for quite some time now, so I don't think I need to stick too closely to that "maximum quality" sizing. I've got my heart set on the biggest @$#%ing thing I can afford, but I'll accept anything 46"+ if it's good enough quality. While I'd like a 56" whatchamacallit, I wouldn't take it over a 46" if the 46" had 1080p and the 56" didn't.
The problem with my last TV was it was a big ol' rear projection piece of crap. It did this:
The blue box represents the physical television screen itself. The red box is the projected image. Most of the red box is within the blue box and is viewable. However, the top and bottom of what is suposed to be viewed is cut off. For example, in FFXII... the "Tips" at the top of the screen in the menu are cut off, and the HP/MP of your second and third party member are non-existant. There are no health bars in Mortal Kombat Armgeddon, and you can't read the styles at the bottom. Stuff like that. I went to Sam's, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Circuit City. It seems a lot of the rear-projection televisions there have the SAME DAMN PROBLEM.
I need a relatively big, 1080p TV that doesn't cut off my menus. But what the hell is a DLP? DLP says it's still rear-projection, but they look a LOT better in person. Why does a 60" Rear-projection TV cost so little compared to a 50" Rear-projection DLP/LCD? What is it about DLP/LCD that makes Rear-projection not seem to suck ass for video games?
I've been eyeballing a Sony Wega 55" 1080p DLP SXRD (what the hell is SXRD?) or the Samsung 50" 1080p DLP HDTV. How can I avoid the problem shown in my little red/blue picture? And am I getting my money's worth with a DLP 1080p TV? (Yes I will be using it for 720p/1080p XBox360, 480p Wii, and 720p/1080p PS3 when I get one)
I've been wanting a big screen for a long, long time. I know I've posted this before, but I never made a full decision and still feel very uneducated on this.
I've read in several places that for an HDTV, the diagonal of the screen should be equal to half of your viewing distance or one third of your distance for a standard TV. If you get a 48" TV, then you should be sitting about 8 feet away. If it's a crappy standard 48" TV, you should be 12 feet away. Well for "maximum quality" or some BS like that.
From what I can tell, I'll be about 10 feet away from where *I'll* be sitting (screw the other people in the house, I'M paying for it) when I play games. I've been playing at 10 feet away on a 27" for quite some time now, so I don't think I need to stick too closely to that "maximum quality" sizing. I've got my heart set on the biggest @$#%ing thing I can afford, but I'll accept anything 46"+ if it's good enough quality. While I'd like a 56" whatchamacallit, I wouldn't take it over a 46" if the 46" had 1080p and the 56" didn't.
The problem with my last TV was it was a big ol' rear projection piece of crap. It did this:
The blue box represents the physical television screen itself. The red box is the projected image. Most of the red box is within the blue box and is viewable. However, the top and bottom of what is suposed to be viewed is cut off. For example, in FFXII... the "Tips" at the top of the screen in the menu are cut off, and the HP/MP of your second and third party member are non-existant. There are no health bars in Mortal Kombat Armgeddon, and you can't read the styles at the bottom. Stuff like that. I went to Sam's, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Circuit City. It seems a lot of the rear-projection televisions there have the SAME DAMN PROBLEM.
I need a relatively big, 1080p TV that doesn't cut off my menus. But what the hell is a DLP? DLP says it's still rear-projection, but they look a LOT better in person. Why does a 60" Rear-projection TV cost so little compared to a 50" Rear-projection DLP/LCD? What is it about DLP/LCD that makes Rear-projection not seem to suck ass for video games?
I've been eyeballing a Sony Wega 55" 1080p DLP SXRD (what the hell is SXRD?) or the Samsung 50" 1080p DLP HDTV. How can I avoid the problem shown in my little red/blue picture? And am I getting my money's worth with a DLP 1080p TV? (Yes I will be using it for 720p/1080p XBox360, 480p Wii, and 720p/1080p PS3 when I get one)
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