Alan Lackey
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- Apr 13, 2000
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I took my wife with me to a friend's home this weekend to let her watch pre-season football on his new Pioneer Elite 630HD. She has been warming to the idea of replacing our RPTV with a new HDTV set.
But...while she was amazed at HD material she was far less impressed with the picture on D* programming.
As I sat and we browsed through the channels I began to look with a more critical eye and realized that the D* channels actually looked worse on this set than they do on my 7 year old Pioneer RPTV.
The picture looked really soft, almost blurry, whereas the picture on my set looks much sharper and in some ways better. I thought the processing in these new sets, with the line doublers and scalers, was designed to actually make non-HD signals look better than their predecessors.
While I have read these kinds of comments before here and on the AVS board, I have started to question the wisdom of purchasing a set when our viewing habits run down the middle with regard to DVDs versus D*.
Is it safe to assume that this is the case for all new HDTV oriented sets? Am I just used to the picture on my set, because when sitting with it this weekend after watching his Elite...I had to agree that our picture did appear to be clearer and easier to watch...and I am pretty critical. Is this to be expected with the DLPs as well?
I apologize for rehashing a constant issue here, but I have been reading and "shopping" new sets and now am at a crossroads of trying to make the decision to pull the trigger or wait for more HD programming from D*.
Thanks for any opinions on this matter....
But...while she was amazed at HD material she was far less impressed with the picture on D* programming.
As I sat and we browsed through the channels I began to look with a more critical eye and realized that the D* channels actually looked worse on this set than they do on my 7 year old Pioneer RPTV.
The picture looked really soft, almost blurry, whereas the picture on my set looks much sharper and in some ways better. I thought the processing in these new sets, with the line doublers and scalers, was designed to actually make non-HD signals look better than their predecessors.
While I have read these kinds of comments before here and on the AVS board, I have started to question the wisdom of purchasing a set when our viewing habits run down the middle with regard to DVDs versus D*.
Is it safe to assume that this is the case for all new HDTV oriented sets? Am I just used to the picture on my set, because when sitting with it this weekend after watching his Elite...I had to agree that our picture did appear to be clearer and easier to watch...and I am pretty critical. Is this to be expected with the DLPs as well?
I apologize for rehashing a constant issue here, but I have been reading and "shopping" new sets and now am at a crossroads of trying to make the decision to pull the trigger or wait for more HD programming from D*.
Thanks for any opinions on this matter....