Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

360 lines....... or 30% higher resolution

Plasma.

Don't believe anything anyone else tells you about Plasma vs LCD.

On Tue, 13 Nov 07, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

On smaller screens (27") it's hardly noticeable. On larger screens
it matters....... unless you watch from 50' away ;-)

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

Beats me.
I just bought a 27" SDTV, tube type, for $250 at Sam's. Didn't buy it
for the quality picture, I bought it for the digital programming that
you can't pick up on an analog TV. This after checkin' out a 40"
split screen HDTV/SDTV for a few minutes and seeing a little
difference but not much.
Granted, a big screen HDTV can impress your friends, especially for a
Super Bowl party or something like that. But if you're not a TV
connoisseur and just want to watch a very good picture without the
"wow" factor and the bigness of it all, then a Standard Digital TV is
pretty damn nice for the money. And a tube type TV will last a lot
longer than either of the flat screen types, or so I'm told. Anyhow,
I've been pretty happy with mine.

Rick

lid wrote:
On Tue, 13 Nov 07, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

On smaller screens (27") it's hardly noticeable. On larger screens
it matters....... unless you watch from 50' away ;-)

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

Beats me.
I just bought a 27" SDTV, tube type, for $250 at Sam's. Didn't buy it
for the quality picture, I bought it for the digital programming that
you can't pick up on an analog TV. This after checkin' out a 40"
split screen HDTV/SDTV for a few minutes and seeing a little
difference but not much.
Granted, a big screen HDTV can impress your friends, especially for a
Super Bowl party or something like that. But if you're not a TV
connoisseur and just want to watch a very good picture without the
"wow" factor and the bigness of it all, then a Standard Digital TV is
pretty damn nice for the money. And a tube type TV will last a lot
longer than either of the flat screen types, or so I'm told. Anyhow,
I've been pretty happy with mine.

Rick

SWS,
Don't listen to this man, he doesn't know what he is talking about.

PhantMan wrote:
a tube type TV will last a lot
longer than either of the flat screen types, or so I'm told. Anyhow,
I've been pretty happy with mine.

Reginald P. Smithers III wrote:
SWS,
Don't listen to this man, he doesn't know what he is talking about.

You're right. I have a flat screen. I meant to say, a tube type will
last longer than either an LCD or Plasma (can't remember what they're
called..... skinny screens?).

Rick

More lines.

Plasma's about at the end. Most are lcd.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:01:04 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

360 lines....... or 30% higher resolution

Plasma.

Don't believe anything anyone else tells you about Plasma vs LCD.

I'm buying one for my office - the old beast 32 inch Sony Triniton
finally gave up the ghost.

The HDTV in the living room was purchased by the kids - I think it's
an LCD, but I don't know for sure - I know, stupid of me, but that's
the wife's TV. I don't watch a lot of TV other than Dirty Jobs,
Mythbusters, National Geographic Channel occasionally plus sports when
I'm interested - other than that, it just sits there.

So I'm replacing the old Sony and getting 37 inch HDTV, but after
reading up on it, I'm just more confused. I get the resolution thing,
but what the hell is "natural" when describing resolution?

I've heard that plasma is generally a better TV than LCD.

but what the hell is "natural" when describing resolution?

I think you mean "native." It means that the TV will show you the program in
whatever resolution it was broadcast. If it's SD, you'll have black bars on
either side... it's better than stretching the image which distorts things.

As far as 1080 or 720, if its a smaller set (ie 37"), save your money and
get the 720. those numbers are vertical lines, and you won't be able to tell
the difference. It's like taking a photo at 10 megapixels resolution, and
printing a 4 x 6 of it.

--Mike

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:01:04 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

360 lines....... or 30% higher resolution

Plasma.

Don't believe anything anyone else tells you about Plasma vs LCD.

I'm buying one for my office - the old beast 32 inch Sony Triniton
finally gave up the ghost.

The HDTV in the living room was purchased by the kids - I think it's
an LCD, but I don't know for sure - I know, stupid of me, but that's
the wife's TV. I don't watch a lot of TV other than Dirty Jobs,
Mythbusters, National Geographic Channel occasionally plus sports when
I'm interested - other than that, it just sits there.

So I'm replacing the old Sony and getting 37 inch HDTV, but after
reading up on it, I'm just more confused. I get the resolution thing,
but what the hell is "natural" when describing resolution?

I've heard that plasma is generally a better TV than LCD.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

1080p

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

My wife wouldn't let me get a plasma.

LCD for general TV.

Plasma for sports.

"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:01:04 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Not exactly a boating topic, but...

What is the difference between 720 and 1080 - resolution?

Which is better - LCD or plasma?

360 lines....... or 30% higher resolution

Plasma.

Don't believe anything anyone else tells you about Plasma vs LCD.

I'm buying one for my office - the old beast 32 inch Sony Triniton
finally gave up the ghost.

The HDTV in the living room was purchased by the kids - I think it's
an LCD, but I don't know for sure - I know, stupid of me, but that's
the wife's TV. I don't watch a lot of TV other than Dirty Jobs,
Mythbusters, National Geographic Channel occasionally plus sports when
I'm interested - other than that, it just sits there.

So I'm replacing the old Sony and getting 37 inch HDTV, but after
reading up on it, I'm just more confused. I get the resolution thing,
but what the hell is "natural" when describing resolution?

I've heard that plasma is generally a better TV than LCD.

Plasma uses about 4x the energy of standard TV.