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  1. AndyMcKinney

    Worried my DVDs will look bad on new HDTV

    Now that I'm home, I've got the 'ol measuring tape out. I sit about 10 1/2 feet away from my 52-inch LED Sharp LC-52LE830U and DVDs look fine. This is the set that I compared head-to-head in the store with a 55-inch one (an LG). Standing the same measured distance away, the DVD (a Region 2 of...
  2. AndyMcKinney

    Worried my DVDs will look bad on new HDTV

    I can wholly recommend a Roku box. We've got one on every TV (and our smaller bedroom TVs are actually RokuTVs, so they have it integrated into the set). Roku is easy to use and inexpensive. The only real downside I see right now is that some of the newly-rolled-out networks like Peacock and HBO...
  3. AndyMcKinney

    Worried my DVDs will look bad on new HDTV

    If you're not against buying used equipment, you can hop on that boat right now! I had (well, still have, as I've not sold them yet) three perfectly-fine BDP-83s. I wanted newer decks, mainly because I was a little impatient with the load time on the four Modern Family season sets. That's...
  4. AndyMcKinney

    Worried my DVDs will look bad on new HDTV

    That, right there is the key, the size-to-distance ratio. When I went flat-panel shopping for the very first time years ago, I knew one of my major concerns would be how will DVDs look on a bigger screen. I took my newly-purchased Oppo blu-ray player to the stores with me (I bought the Oppo...
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