Alfred-L
Auditioning
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2001
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what is the best tv to get right now in the 3-4k price range i want widescreen hdtv or ready help a newbie out. thanks!
The amount of HDTV available is very small and so far very little sports.
This is a VERY dangerous and misleading statement. It depends where you live. This guy is from Canada, so maybe to him HD is scarce. Where I live, in the Portland, OR area, we have 6 digital OTA channels with 4 showing HD. We have a full time PBS and a fulltime NBC demo loop running. plus I have Dish network with HBO HD and the Dish HD Demo channel. I dropped Showtime, along with their HD channel because they never show anything worth watching.
Tuesday nights is a tough choice on what to watch, there is almost TOO MANY CHOICES! ABC & CBS now show almost all their primetime shows in HD & CBS has been showing a Saturday college football game all season. If you have Direct TV you can get HDNET.
So the problem isn't really a lack of programming, it's where you live, so let's not scare anyone off with statements like this, OK?
I bought an Hitachi 53UWX10B widescreen HD ready set in mid September. I was constantly tweaking trying to get rid of a green swampy effect in dark areas, and also trying to get a decent picture from regular sat. and cable.
If you check Home Theater Spot (in the Hitachi Tweaks section), they show how to fix the green problem.
I still don't see HDTV going anywhere in the next couple of years and stand by my view that 4:3 TV will be with us for at least 5 years and possibly longer. I wish this were not the case but with such a small percentage of HDTV TVs being sold, even now, the market is still very small and most TV being broadcast is still 4:3.
One of the problems with acceptance of HDTV are the cable companies. Until most of the US cable companies start to set themselves up to handle HDTV, the networks are not going to pick up the pace. In all I have read, I have not seen anything encouraging in this area.
I have to agree with Chris here. Until I can hook up my cable box and get a good selection of HD programing, I just can't see it really taking off. I shouldn't have to climb out on the roof to put an ol' outdoor antenna up to get some HD programs; it is the 21st century for gods sake! Especially the networks! I refuse to watch crap, even if its good looking crap.