Poll: Do you own an HDTV?

Have an Olevia 37" (Model 337H) At $650 (Newegg) I took it out of the box, plugged it in...and LOVE it!!!!

61 inch samsung dlp. it is fantastic. the model number is hls6187w.

I don't own one, have no plans to get one. I do not see the need or advantage in it, T.V. is not an essential part of my life, and there are is lot of more important things for my budget to deal with.

Picked up a spiffy little 32" Toshiba 32HL67 Regza. Provides a beautiful picture with my PS3 and Xbox 360, and looks downright sexy sitting there taking up very little space on my TV stand.

and with any luck, prices will start to drop down a bit.

Sony KLV-S32A10 and a Sony KP-46WT510

You don't have to be in the sweet spot to enjoy this full 1080 beauty however it is nice to have an angle that is slightly less than off center. Watching HD in full screen is breath taking with the Sony SXRD. Buy the Sony stand as well. It's a perfect match and complets your package. Enjoy.

professionally calibrated 60xbr2 and crappy 32s2010.

My HDTV is a Sony KDS-R50XBR1

I use my new 37-Inch Viore Hi-Def. flat panel tv for my computer monitor, my Satellite Hi-Def. Television as well as DVD-VHS playback
monitor. I use a 3 X 1 HDMI Switcher to choose between the three inputs. It's terrific for viewing my digital photos, Photoshop work
and playback of DVD off of the Hi-Def Satellite. You would be impressed if you could see what I am watching. My next investment will be Hi-Def. DVD Recorder. Probably Blu-ray, when the price settles down a little bit more. Then, I'll have it ALL!!! BV

55" Mitsubishi Projection. WS-55815. 1080i. Couple of years old but still beautiful picture.

Started researching when my buddy got his 42" Philips Ambilight model, and ended up buying the PDP-5070HD from Pioneer. While they aren't inexpensive, this one ended up being around $2,300 online(far less than when they first came out), and thanks to people on this site, bought the cables and wall mount for hundreds less than the local box store. For me, it enabled my family to get rid of a bulky entertainment center with the wall mount and cable card. Hopeful the plasma lasts, and that is the true test - if it conks out in three years, it will have been a bust. If it lasts for 20, I will consider myself well-served.

One is a 47" CRT-RP set, the other is a 26" CRT direct view. John

I have read up about the HD spec's and I'm not sure I wanna change just yet. I see alot of friends that first got on the HD band wagon and they are now left with incompatibale components and inferior equipment.

Personally speaking I will wait til the better standards come to the price levels I can justify. Thats alot closer now than it was even 6 months ago, but also when I buy equipment it needs to be workable and compatible for the next 2-4 years. And with the current line of mass selling items on the market, I don't see that.

Now if you can afford to sell an arm and a leg you will find something that meets those standards. But I have a business and family to look out for first and that kind of free cash is just not in the budget right now. But when things come down, I will be there to take advantage of it all.

I just figure the way the current price schemes go what was bloody expensive 6 weeks ago is now dated technology and more reasonably priced. So give it time and the law of supply and demand will come back to something I can live with in my budget.

aoc envision L32W461 - got it for $549. love it.

I have a Westinghouse 30" HD LCD that I use for my computer monitor at my desk.

I also have a Westinghouse 47" HD LCD in the family room that I have connected to a PC, the HD cable box (well, the TiVo), a XBox 360 with HD DVD and PS3 with Blue-ray DVD.

I have found Westinghouse a good source of quality, comfortably priced high-definition monitors and televisions.

No, and no plans to get one.

Here are the reasons:
1. Standard is simply not there for all TV shows.
2. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray penetration simply not there yet. I have a number of SD-DVDs I'd like to watch, but there simply is no TV that I've personally seen that is able to scale such material WELL.
3. Video immersion isn't that great...(prolonged experience has been limited to KDL-40XBR2). Frankly the significant differences in video aren't enough for me. Only display I've seen offerning a significant different is the Pioneer Pro-FHD1.
4. Waiting how future technologies pan out. I.E. Deep color

Not considering it now because:

1) current TV works fine
2) cost of upgrading to this newer technology ($ and time/effort to figure out the best option/brand/choice for our household)
3) These TVs are so big!
4) We'll investigate the newer tech when the old analog signals go away and we have to get a new set
5) TV isn't that important to us; I'd rather get other things

I have a 57" rear projection tv that is HD ready 2002 model. Good for sports. Picture not as nice as my flat screen LCD which is a Samsung LNS3251 I bought earlier this year for my bedroom. The picture is so much better on the small screen that I am planning on replacing the 57" monster with a wall mounted 52" LCD in the next year or two. I love the color on the new set-much more vibrant than the projection tv.

PLEASE GIVE US A FORMAT BREAKDOWN, BASED ON CURRENT RESULTS.......

OTHERWISE THIS POLL IS USELESS.

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RIVER.

30" Toshiba CRT 1080i, which weighs around 140 lbs. and is as big as a cabinet. But it was $800, had an amazing picture, came from toshiba who has some of the best CRT technology, and has HDMI (1), 2 component and 3 composite inputs. Its about 2 years old, and while its huge and a pain to move, it has a wonderful picture and could last forever, after all is is good ol' CRT. I do want something slimmer though, hopefully soon.

HDTV - My dad happened to helped design the HDTV spec for the US market many years ago (mainly from the broadcast side). Anyway, Take the picture height and multiply by 3 and then again (separately by 4). This is the approximate range of the design. If you stand or sit between 3-4 times the picture height away from the TV then the picture should be really awesome, have depth to it. So if you have a good 10 feet between the screen and the couch then a screen height should be between 40 inches high (3x picture height) and 30 inches high (4x picture height - 10 / 4 * 12) - the closer to 3x times the better. So depending on your sitting distance the bigger the better.

Another tip - 1080i (i what - means interlaced 1080p is progressive). If the progressive is not at 60 hertz (refresh rate of the screen - how many times the screen is redrawn, as I understand it, every second), then you can end up with some smudging on the screen with action from sports games etc. A 1080p is better than a 1080i if the refresh rate is 60 hertz if it is 30 then 1080i would be better, as I understand it. Has to do with how the brain and the eye preceives the change in front of it.

I am just getting around to looking for a high def tv since my console, bought 17 or so years ago (a Magnavox) finally died a week ago. I was hoping to get another year so the price I paid for the console 27" tube would be about the same for an excellent HD (I don't want to replace for another 17 years but I am under no illusions that I will get more than 10 years out of it, if I am lucky). But $700 in 1990 dollars is more like double that in 07 dollars so even if I get a good 1080 now for under 1200 (look up the cheapest price with shipping for the Toshiba 42HL167 - the unit I am planning I think to buy) I will still get decent price.

Speaking of price does anyone know if prices come down in November or December for TV to drive Holiday sales. Since I am not planning on the exteneded warranty - a unit should die within the 1 year period in my experience if it is going to so why shell out that much more. On the other hand, in home repair is attractive because the sets are so heavy and I have a bad back.

Has anyone had a problem buying a unit online? - thank god for CNET - the store rating and all the input folks put in has helped me numerous times. Thanks ahead for any comments.

Keep in mind the info I have above may be 15-20 years old - my dad worked on the spec about the time Top Gun came out to video since they use it to test it the spec in simulation of HD (no HD sets then - got to build the spec before the set). Not sure how they did that but interesting. The info should be accurate base specs typically don't change even over many years due to the costs involved. My guess is they don't make a set the cycles at 30 hertz but check the specs.


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YES - Pioneer PDP-4280HD