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[quote=zk][quote=Navydoc] The Samsungs are also excellent, but I hate the reflective screen. [/quote]

Yeah, I was all ready to buy a Samsung LN52A650. Consumer reports gave it a great review, it has the 120hz refresh rate, and you can get one on Amazon for $1846 with free shipping and no tax. All I had to do was go to Best Buy and look at one to make sure I liked it. And it looked great except for the reflective screen. Might as well buy a plasma if you’re going to have a reflective screen.

Anyway, on to my question, hoping for NavyDoc’s (or anyone else’s) expert opinion:

I asked the guy at Best Buy (I know, probably not an expert) why they’d put a reflective screen on an LCD TV. He said that with that clear “coating” or whatever, you could get a better picture with better colors. Does that seem right?[/quote]

Here is an article about the TV you were asking about. It mentions the screen as being more reflective and also mentions that it was anti glare, which I guess can affect colors.

http://www.consumersearch.com/lcd-tv/sony-samsung-lead

John

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[quote=zk][quote=Navydoc] The Samsungs are also excellent, but I hate the reflective screen. [/quote]

Yeah, I was all ready to buy a Samsung LN52A650. Consumer reports gave it a great review, it has the 120hz refresh rate, and you can get one on Amazon for $1846 with free shipping and no tax. All I had to do was go to Best Buy and look at one to make sure I liked it. And it looked great except for the reflective screen. Might as well buy a plasma if you’re going to have a reflective screen.

Anyway, on to my question, hoping for NavyDoc’s (or anyone else’s) expert opinion:

I asked the guy at Best Buy (I know, probably not an expert) why they’d put a reflective screen on an LCD TV. He said that with that clear “coating” or whatever, you could get a better picture with better colors. Does that seem right?[/quote]

Here is an article about the TV you were asking about. It mentions the screen as being more reflective and also mentions that it was anti glare, which I guess can affect colors.

http://www.consumersearch.com/lcd-tv/sony-samsung-lead

John

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[quote=zk][quote=Navydoc] The Samsungs are also excellent, but I hate the reflective screen. [/quote]

Yeah, I was all ready to buy a Samsung LN52A650. Consumer reports gave it a great review, it has the 120hz refresh rate, and you can get one on Amazon for $1846 with free shipping and no tax. All I had to do was go to Best Buy and look at one to make sure I liked it. And it looked great except for the reflective screen. Might as well buy a plasma if you’re going to have a reflective screen.

Anyway, on to my question, hoping for NavyDoc’s (or anyone else’s) expert opinion:

I asked the guy at Best Buy (I know, probably not an expert) why they’d put a reflective screen on an LCD TV. He said that with that clear “coating” or whatever, you could get a better picture with better colors. Does that seem right?[/quote]

Here is an article about the TV you were asking about. It mentions the screen as being more reflective and also mentions that it was anti glare, which I guess can affect colors.

http://www.consumersearch.com/lcd-tv/sony-samsung-lead

John

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[quote=zk][quote=Navydoc] The Samsungs are also excellent, but I hate the reflective screen. [/quote]

Yeah, I was all ready to buy a Samsung LN52A650. Consumer reports gave it a great review, it has the 120hz refresh rate, and you can get one on Amazon for $1846 with free shipping and no tax. All I had to do was go to Best Buy and look at one to make sure I liked it. And it looked great except for the reflective screen. Might as well buy a plasma if you’re going to have a reflective screen.

Anyway, on to my question, hoping for NavyDoc’s (or anyone else’s) expert opinion:

I asked the guy at Best Buy (I know, probably not an expert) why they’d put a reflective screen on an LCD TV. He said that with that clear “coating” or whatever, you could get a better picture with better colors. Does that seem right?[/quote]

Here is an article about the TV you were asking about. It mentions the screen as being more reflective and also mentions that it was anti glare, which I guess can affect colors.

http://www.consumersearch.com/lcd-tv/sony-samsung-lead

John

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[quote=zk][quote=Navydoc] The Samsungs are also excellent, but I hate the reflective screen. [/quote]

Yeah, I was all ready to buy a Samsung LN52A650. Consumer reports gave it a great review, it has the 120hz refresh rate, and you can get one on Amazon for $1846 with free shipping and no tax. All I had to do was go to Best Buy and look at one to make sure I liked it. And it looked great except for the reflective screen. Might as well buy a plasma if you’re going to have a reflective screen.

Anyway, on to my question, hoping for NavyDoc’s (or anyone else’s) expert opinion:

I asked the guy at Best Buy (I know, probably not an expert) why they’d put a reflective screen on an LCD TV. He said that with that clear “coating” or whatever, you could get a better picture with better colors. Does that seem right?[/quote]

Here is an article about the TV you were asking about. It mentions the screen as being more reflective and also mentions that it was anti glare, which I guess can affect colors.

http://www.consumersearch.com/lcd-tv/sony-samsung-lead

John

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I forgot to mention, not that it had any relevance to anything, that watching close captioning TV for an hour or 2 a day will turn you into a pretty good lip reader.

John

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I forgot to mention, not that it had any relevance to anything, that watching close captioning TV for an hour or 2 a day will turn you into a pretty good lip reader.

John

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I forgot to mention, not that it had any relevance to anything, that watching close captioning TV for an hour or 2 a day will turn you into a pretty good lip reader.

John

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I forgot to mention, not that it had any relevance to anything, that watching close captioning TV for an hour or 2 a day will turn you into a pretty good lip reader.

John

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I forgot to mention, not that it had any relevance to anything, that watching close captioning TV for an hour or 2 a day will turn you into a pretty good lip reader.

John

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[quote=CardiffBaseball]TV went out… 36 inch old timer tube not even a flat screen. Time to upgrade. Good choices I saw at Costco on open models.

$799 – Panasonic Viera 50 Plasma 720P
$799 – Panasonic Viera 46 Plasma 1080P

Man I can’t decide, I like the idea of Plasma for sports, the 720 seems good enough but then again 50 inch screen kind of overtakes my living room. I don’t really watch that many movies as I am just too scatterbrained and distracted with my laptop to put it away for two hours to watch a film. Obviously Blue-Ray is better with the 46. Broadcast and sports are fine on the 50/720P too.

Decisions, Decisions…
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The best for sports are the 120hz models. They make 1080/60hz and 1080/120hz so you have to check to see which the model is.

I had an old 36″ Phillips that was at least 15 years old. The sound finally gave out and I still kept for 4 months before I went a bought a new set. I would watch the close captioning.

I went to Best Buy with the idea of getting a 40″ 1080p/120hz but settled on a 32″ Samsung 720/60hz for $549 + tax etc.

They make such good stuff these days you probably can’t go wrong.

Good luck.

John

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[quote=CardiffBaseball]TV went out… 36 inch old timer tube not even a flat screen. Time to upgrade. Good choices I saw at Costco on open models.

$799 – Panasonic Viera 50 Plasma 720P
$799 – Panasonic Viera 46 Plasma 1080P

Man I can’t decide, I like the idea of Plasma for sports, the 720 seems good enough but then again 50 inch screen kind of overtakes my living room. I don’t really watch that many movies as I am just too scatterbrained and distracted with my laptop to put it away for two hours to watch a film. Obviously Blue-Ray is better with the 46. Broadcast and sports are fine on the 50/720P too.

Decisions, Decisions…
[/quote]

The best for sports are the 120hz models. They make 1080/60hz and 1080/120hz so you have to check to see which the model is.

I had an old 36″ Phillips that was at least 15 years old. The sound finally gave out and I still kept for 4 months before I went a bought a new set. I would watch the close captioning.

I went to Best Buy with the idea of getting a 40″ 1080p/120hz but settled on a 32″ Samsung 720/60hz for $549 + tax etc.

They make such good stuff these days you probably can’t go wrong.

Good luck.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=CardiffBaseball]TV went out… 36 inch old timer tube not even a flat screen. Time to upgrade. Good choices I saw at Costco on open models.

$799 – Panasonic Viera 50 Plasma 720P
$799 – Panasonic Viera 46 Plasma 1080P

Man I can’t decide, I like the idea of Plasma for sports, the 720 seems good enough but then again 50 inch screen kind of overtakes my living room. I don’t really watch that many movies as I am just too scatterbrained and distracted with my laptop to put it away for two hours to watch a film. Obviously Blue-Ray is better with the 46. Broadcast and sports are fine on the 50/720P too.

Decisions, Decisions…
[/quote]

The best for sports are the 120hz models. They make 1080/60hz and 1080/120hz so you have to check to see which the model is.

I had an old 36″ Phillips that was at least 15 years old. The sound finally gave out and I still kept for 4 months before I went a bought a new set. I would watch the close captioning.

I went to Best Buy with the idea of getting a 40″ 1080p/120hz but settled on a 32″ Samsung 720/60hz for $549 + tax etc.

They make such good stuff these days you probably can’t go wrong.

Good luck.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=CardiffBaseball]TV went out… 36 inch old timer tube not even a flat screen. Time to upgrade. Good choices I saw at Costco on open models.

$799 – Panasonic Viera 50 Plasma 720P
$799 – Panasonic Viera 46 Plasma 1080P

Man I can’t decide, I like the idea of Plasma for sports, the 720 seems good enough but then again 50 inch screen kind of overtakes my living room. I don’t really watch that many movies as I am just too scatterbrained and distracted with my laptop to put it away for two hours to watch a film. Obviously Blue-Ray is better with the 46. Broadcast and sports are fine on the 50/720P too.

Decisions, Decisions…
[/quote]

The best for sports are the 120hz models. They make 1080/60hz and 1080/120hz so you have to check to see which the model is.

I had an old 36″ Phillips that was at least 15 years old. The sound finally gave out and I still kept for 4 months before I went a bought a new set. I would watch the close captioning.

I went to Best Buy with the idea of getting a 40″ 1080p/120hz but settled on a 32″ Samsung 720/60hz for $549 + tax etc.

They make such good stuff these days you probably can’t go wrong.

Good luck.

John

[jficquette]

[quote=CardiffBaseball]TV went out… 36 inch old timer tube not even a flat screen. Time to upgrade. Good choices I saw at Costco on open models.

$799 – Panasonic Viera 50 Plasma 720P
$799 – Panasonic Viera 46 Plasma 1080P

Man I can’t decide, I like the idea of Plasma for sports, the 720 seems good enough but then again 50 inch screen kind of overtakes my living room. I don’t really watch that many movies as I am just too scatterbrained and distracted with my laptop to put it away for two hours to watch a film. Obviously Blue-Ray is better with the 46. Broadcast and sports are fine on the 50/720P too.

Decisions, Decisions…
[/quote]

The best for sports are the 120hz models. They make 1080/60hz and 1080/120hz so you have to check to see which the model is.

I had an old 36″ Phillips that was at least 15 years old. The sound finally gave out and I still kept for 4 months before I went a bought a new set. I would watch the close captioning.

I went to Best Buy with the idea of getting a 40″ 1080p/120hz but settled on a 32″ Samsung 720/60hz for $549 + tax etc.

They make such good stuff these days you probably can’t go wrong.

Good luck.

John

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