LCD/Plasma/CRT/DLP - questions

[Salsa Party Animal]

Any idea when Panasonic or Phillips HDTV 32 inch LCD be around 900 quids rather than 1300 or whatever.

[Cuber001]

Ive brought the Panasonic - its loverly cant wait to go through RE4 all over again!

Trust me, it doesn't look to crash hot on these LCT tvs! Shame that.

[ThoseOfTheUnlight]

It's a very nice TV, but don't get sucked into the ambilight guff. It's completely and utterly pointless.

Well, I guess it is nice in theory, but the lights need to project around the whole room (somehow), not just in a linear sideways fashion they do here.

I do agree with what is said before that it is pretty much the best 32" around. Expensive mind, so much that I won't be getting one for myself...and I don't see the extra cost over other 32"'s being particularly worthwhile.

Nah I wont get sucked in - I think the Philips slightly edges the Panasonic 500/52, and thats not including the ambilight.

If the retailer cant stock it though, I'll be very happy to go with either Panasonic LCD!

[Simmy]

i've just seen the samsung 40"... holy **** it's awesome.

The LE40M61BX ? Anyone know if they are forsale anywhere as yet ?

[themanwithapc]

Trust me, it doesn't look to crash hot on these LCT tvs! Shame that.

Strange that. You using component cables mate? I hooked up my GC for only a few minutes, and F-zero looks like nothing I've seen before.

Also, did you get your telly yet rossco?

[EvilBoris]

Strange that. You using component cables mate? I hooked up my GC for only a few minutes, and F-zero looks like nothing I've seen before.

Also, did you get your telly yet rossco?

I think he was talking about resi 4 , for some reason it looks like butt through 480p, as does fable on xbox

[andrewfee]

Thanks for your help, very useful.

Seems weird that samsung chose 1366x768 though, I can't see any benefit in it (though I guess 1080i looks better than on other TV's?).

1366x768 is a true 16:9 ratio, but allows for the bog-standard PC resolution of 1024x768 to be displayed on the screen. A 1280x720 panel would either need to scale the image or crop it.

Yes, ideally you want to be sending it the full native resolution, but that is not always possible. (many PC games are 4:3 only, for example)

[sj33]

Besides, 720p upscaled to 1366x768 basically looks exactly the flippin' same, unless you go a zoomed-in screenshot comparison of black-on-white text on a webpage, in which case it's marginal.
Support for proper PC resolution and higher resolution downscaling of 1080i outbalances it IMO.

F-Zero looks absolutely jawdropping in 480p 16:9 through Component. Unfortunately, GameCube RE4 looks pretty eye-bleedingly bad, mainly because when you remove the letterbox boarders, the resolution becomes about the same as a PS1 game vertically, and it shows.
For this reason alone, the PS2 game has become key for me. Missed opportunity Capcom.

[Rossco]

Also, did you get your telly yet rossco?

Nope!!!

The guy practically promised to me it was coming today when I called this morning since it went out for delivery on Friday yet it didnt arrive!!!

Phoned again tonight and said to just phone in the morning to check again!

So unfair! Really been ****!


Bad news about Resi 4 too! I might have to get the PS2 version as I wanna play through it again soon!

[themanwithapc]

Nope!!!

The guy practically promised to me it was coming today when I called this morning since it went out for delivery on Friday yet it didnt arrive!!!

Phoned again tonight and said to just phone in the morning to check again!

So unfair! Really been ****!


Bad news about Resi 4 too! I might have to get the PS2 version as I wanna play through it again soon!

Yeah, I'm surprised. Mine went through really smoothly, so a bit strange that your hasn't done the same.

[Cuber001]

Strange that. You using component cables mate? I hooked up my GC for only a few minutes, and F-zero looks like nothing I've seen before

Yeah F-Zero looks fab. but yeah, i was talking about Resident Evil 4. One of this gens best graphical games. Play it on an LCD tv to see what i mean.

PS2 version would be the key.

[themanwithapc]

Yeah F-Zero looks fab. but yeah, i was talking about Resident Evil 4. One of this gens best graphical games. Play it on an LCD tv to see what i mean.

PS2 version would be the key.

If that's true, then what a shame.

I can't see how much better the PS2 version can be, as I just find the game to simply be inferior (graphically and control wise) to the GC version. I wonder if the xbox/360 will get a Resi 4 version..........*dreaming*

[EvilBoris]

Nope!!!

The guy practically promised to me it was coming today when I called this morning since it went out for delivery on Friday yet it didnt arrive!!!

Phoned again tonight and said to just phone in the morning to check again!

So unfair! Really been ****!


Bad news about Resi 4 too! I might have to get the PS2 version as I wanna play through it again soon!

it doesn'y look that bad, its just that the transparency effects have weird pixeally blocks missing from them in 480p, I'm guessing they'd be optimised for viewing in 480i. I guess the lack of a widescreen option might piss off people with a widescreen TV, if you are happy to play it in 4:3 letterboxed then it'd be just dandy.

[sj33]

Maybe, but not may people have progressive scan-capable 4:3 TV's...

Bottom line is that the letterboxing on the GameCube game is the most pointless thing ever because it just serves to ruin the game on a widescreen TV.

[mid]

So this is definitely something specific to RE4? I'd be disappointed if it doesn't do an acceptable job with zooming up my widescreen laserdiscs.