High Definition Televisions

[animegirl]

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....oryId=cat03002

This is the TV I was thinking about getting. What do you guys think? Am I to understand that since this is widescreen that my DVD movies that are 16:9 won't have the black bars at the top and bottom? Also how would I watch regular TV would it have to be streched? If I were to run my Xbox or Gamecube in progressive scan will it fill the whole screen? Thanks!

[SmoothCriminal]

I was planning on getting the 27" Advent HDTV but I saw it in the store and it really seems small to me. I'm thinking of going 30-34" but I still want the HD capabilities. It seems most non-widescreen HDs have a 16:9 compression mode and I'm wondering if you guys think it would be wiser just to get the non-widescreen HD then pay a few more hundred bucks and get a few inches smaller and widescreen?

[Masaka]

One thing that concerned me about the two models that I was looking at was that there was a lot of talk of being "HD Ready" I'm assuming that's for receiving digital signals from say, a TV source, rather than from a console system or DVD player that's directly outputting a progressive scan signal.

If anybody's got some good reliable resources for info on HD in general, I'd appreciate it.

[Tragic]

God damn... getting tired of a 27" Trinitron. I just got basically the same thing (made by Toshiba) this summer.

[SmoothCriminal]

I'm pretty sure the "HD Monitors" will output progressive scan and such from a DVD player or console but won't upscan a TV signal without a set-top box or digital reciever. And what from I get out of it "HD Ready" will come with a built in "NTSC tuner" and upscans the signal to 480p or 1080i or whatnot.

[napalm]

On the note of anamorphic squeeze, on my 32'' wega (noot HD) when I'm watching a DVD that already places the black bars on the video, and I put it on anamorphic squeeze mode, it squeezes the picture so it has double black bars, any ideas?

[K3V]

If anybody's got some good reliable resources for info on HD in general, I'd appreciate it.

www.avsforum.com is god.

[Tones]

Napolm, in the DVD player's options, tell it that you have a widescreen TV. It sounds like it's set to 4:3 letterbox.

Animegirl, some widescreen movies will still have bars on an HDTV. The one that you're looking at has an aspect ratio of 1.85:1 (width to height), while movies can be 1.33:1, 1.66:1, 1.78:1, 1.85:1, 2.35:1, and possibly a few others. The first two will have horizontal black bars (with 1.33:1's being wider), the second two will have no black bars, and 2.35:1 will have small horizontal black bars.

[Josh]

I have a 53" Widescreen Panasonic HDTV and I love it.

Everything looks like sexy butter.

[animegirl]

Thanks Tones, boy this shit is confusing!