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Originally Posted by Lasereth
Those things are hooked up through COAXIAL cable on standard def channels and none of them have been calibrated. Customers and employees are constantly dicking around with the display settings on them as well. It's absolutely impossible to gauge the quality of a TV from a display unit in a store.
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This is a good point I missed, and it brings up cables which are important. Specifically: Monoprice is THE BEST place to buy cables. Don't fall for the scams about expensive cables and all that bullshit, anyone that knows something about anything electrical can tell you at great length why most of their claims aren't just marketspeak but also physically impossible.
As for store displays... they also tend to have the settings cranked all wierd in a massively over-lit store. Nothing's going to look the same.
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Don't discount a TV because it's "only" 720p either. Humans can't even tell the difference between 720p and 1080p unless they're sitting REALLY close to the TV. And even then, it's the digital signal and progressive scan technology that's making the biggest difference on the TV, not the resolution (though it does matter, just not as much as people say). Most PS3 games are 720p, and the 360 can't display true 1080p (only 1080i). A huge portion of HD TV stations in my area broadcast at 1080i but it's not true HD. Most are going at 720p, just like Netflix streaming.
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If you can't see the difference between a resolution lower than a computer monitor from 1998 (768 vertical lines vs 720) and 1080 vertical lines then something's wrong with your eyes or your glasses. Interlacing is a big deal, yes, but so is resolution. Take a resolution basically designed for a 17" screen and stretch that out to a 40 inch TV and tell me that's not going to be ugly as sin even in progressive scan. You're going to want that extra resolution at the size you're aiming for.
Also interlacing is a complete red herring,
this guy explains it really well for people who aren't up to their elbows in technical jargon.