why old classics?

[AUdubon5425]

Personally, I think a CRT produces a clearer picture than an LCD or plasma screen. While it's interesting, I consider "HD" a gimmick more than anything. Any regular programming ("LD" ?) shown on "HD" sets I've seen looks like crap. Plus, you can't really get the best view of a flat-screen TV unless you're directly in front of it, while a CRT set can be viewed from many angles with no deficit.

[oldtvman]

Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

Personally, I think a CRT produces a clearer picture than an LCD or plasma screen. While it's interesting, I consider "HD" a gimmick more than anything. Any regular programming ("LD" ?) shown on "HD" sets I've seen looks like crap. Plus, you can't really get the best view of a flat-screen TV unless you're directly in front of it, while a CRT set can be viewed from many angles with no deficit.

while that is true for lcd screens, the plasma technology is a mirror image of the crt technology with no degradation off center. Personnally i own plasma technology. The reason that these sets are near and dear to my heart is the fact that color was a major milestone in technology for the time while hd is simply an extension of technology that has existed for years.

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by AUdubon5425

Personally, I think a CRT produces a clearer picture than an LCD or plasma screen.

As for the LCD vs CRT, a major part of the equation is the light quality of the LCD backlight. Though it looks to be white, it's often just blue and yellow light mixed together. The LCD panel has red, green and blue filters painted on its pixels. Blue comes out fine, but you can't really get decent pure enough green and red light from the yellow of the backlight. This limits how well the display can reproduce color, in the industry it's called gamut. One a computer screen, it doesn't much matter if the red in an excel spreadsheet isn't as red as it should have been, but with video or pictures it does make a difference.

I use a bigger VGA CRT monitor (17 inch IIRC) for over the air HDTV driven by a DirecTV box someone gave me. I don't watch enough TV really to justify to myself to get a flat panel.