Haha you don't want to know how much trouble it was to get that tv into my apartment, I ended up breaking the wooden panel on the side and scratching some of the plastic, but it's all good now. The thing is never leaving that place though, I'm not moving it again.

And LCD is brighter and crisper, which is the upside for those tv's. But the downside is the signal tends to look pixelated without HD and there is no true black color. I used the money I saved and bought the cables and dvd player.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp ... pe=product

That's the switch I have to get^

WOW, I guess im not the only one that got a big screen T.V.

my tv will be delivered on friday so i will make a thread about it with pics on saturday biggrin:

got a new plasma tv (about half price) about a month ago and everything looks like a cartoon its so clear.

you have obviously never had them both in your home. i had direct tv for about a year and a half, and probably recieved a blue screen lost signal just about once a night....lasting anywhere for a few minutes, to hours. if the wind blew hard, the screen would become all pixilated. if there was heavy cloud cover (just overcast, no storm) the signal wouldnt pass through and hello blue screen. if it barely drizzled, ya no tv. it was absolutely the WORST product/technology investment i have ever made. i now have comcast digital high definition cable. had for almost 3 years now. the only time i have ever lost the picture is when they do the weekly test at some random hour in the morning.

but please pyro, i want to hear all your first hand accounts about the two.

nag:

What we need here are pics. Yes folks, lotsa pics of your setup. As for now, Arkan has nothing to write home to mom about but.....everything is in place. Have all the wires in place and just waiting to finish this room and going out and spending big $$$ for my shite !!

Blah only got a Sony WEGA high 30's low 40's inches cant remember exact size..gets the job done though.

Thats me too, but substitute dish for bell. I am also moving inthe next few weeks and wont bother with any upgrade until then. Got a 57' hitachi rear projection. Crappy signlas look terrible, but the high def stuff is bad to the bone. The worst is football on local channels over satelite. Sure its digital, but digitizing a crappy picture only insures that you get a perfect reproduction of a crappy picture.

DVDs look good, but I dont have the HD dvd player. I think I have plenty of inputs though. When i move, I will be working on the perm install.

I dont get what all the HDTV hype is about...

...spending $4,000 bucks to see a shade of purple regular TV's can produce doesnt excite me all too much.

[quote="Sgt. Duffy":7f438]I dont get what all the HDTV hype is about...

...spending $4,000 bucks to see a shade of purple regular TV's can produce doesnt excite me all too much.[/quote:7f438]If you live for tv theres nothing better than seeing the most detail possible, sometimes better than being at the game.

[quote="[DAS REICH] Blitz":4819d][quote="Sgt. Duffy":4819d]I dont get what all the HDTV hype is about...

...spending $4,000 bucks to see a shade of purple regular TV's can produce doesnt excite me all too much.[/quote:4819d]If you live for tv theres nothing better than seeing the most detail possible, sometimes better than being at the game.[/quote:4819d]

Yeah, I hardly watch TV. I dont even have cable.

i have a 55 inch sony HDTV with the HD satellite reciever and surrond sound. i dont really notice the different though