Iron_Giant

I was just wondering how many of us have "True Widescreen" TVs?

I have a 27 inch TV and I plan to upgrade to a 36 inch TV by the end of the year, TV is 7 years old and does not have S-Video or Component outputs. With the great prices on 36 inch TVs, I can't see myself spending 3 or 4 times as much for an awesome widescreen TV.

If you are going to upgrade, what are you going to upgrade to? A bigger 4:3 TV or a "True Widesreen" TV?

Franchot

Both. Or should I say all three. (I have a 4:3 set and a 16 x 9 set as well as a I 32inch Tau that 'squeezes" from a 4:3 to 16 x 9.) (Of course, due to the cost of these three I don't have any furniture...)

Sonic

http://www.dvdtalk.com/forum/showthr...hreadid=132712

Joe Schmoe

I also have both a 4:3 and a 16:9. I checked the box for 16:9 because that's the one I do my DVD watching on.

LBPound

4:3 only, and a mere 27" at that. But yesterday with the purchase of Playstation 2, that gives this household 4 DVD players...and only 2 TVs (the others are DVD-ROM drives).

milo bloom

I have a 25" 4x3 tv in the living room and 20" in the bedroom (w/ PS2)

I have no problems watching any aspect ratio on either one, and have even watched ws DVDs on a 13" tv when we had a den (before my brother in law moved in )

MACD23

i have a 4:3 32" sony trinitron. i greatly perfer widescreen movies in 1:85 or 2:35 ratio........

my only beef with watching in the 2:35 ratio is if its on a small tv.



anyway, i saw 2 widescreen HDTVs today at best buy, a 38" picture tube for $2,995 (not bad!) and a plasma widescreen that looked to be about 40-42" for $7,995 and it was about 3 inches in depth.


sorry, but the $2,995 tv appealed to me much more, then i could spend the other 5K on dvd's and a home theater system....then i woke up.

Ian11

People who have 16:9 HD TVs fall into 2 categories.

1. Those who absolutely have to have the latest toy no matter the cost. Never mind the annoying fact most shows are still not HD and presented in 4:3.

2. People who have way more cash than me.

I bought my 32" standard Trinitron a year ago and its a good size for watching widescreen movies in a small apartment. Back then a 32" standard WEGA went for $1600 while my standard Sony only cost $600. I thought about getting the WEGA but I opted to get a DD/DTS receiver and 5.1 speakers with the difference plus some change. Boy, am I glad I did! They add tremendously to the action on the screen.

If you can afford it go for it! DVDs look amazing esp. on a big screen tv with a progressive player.

aroney

At first i was totally geeked about getting a widescreen TV. but after thinking about it I started to think about how many movies and televison shows are in the 1.33 ratio. If i get the widescreen i will still have the bars! They will just be on the sides.

Those shows and 1.33 movies are not going to dissapear. So I figure at least until 16 & 9 really becomes a factor, my dream is Big screen (50-plus inches), HDTV, 4 & 3 ratio that can do the anamorphic squeeze (and my dirty laundry too!).

What TV has all that? and costs less than 1500 bucks? Until it exists (and it will, someday) I'll just hang tight with my 36 inch Panasonic PIP, with component and super video inputs at the nice price of 675 -dollars.

milo bloom

I wanted to add that my wife and I still watch a lot of broadcast tv and play a lot of video games, so we'll probably be 4x3 for some time.

MACD23

the 38" WS tv at bestbuy was broadcasting golf on channel 4 or 5 and it fit the whole the screen....the hdtv quality was similar to dvd quality.

aroney

It fit the whole screen "probably" because it was in stretch mode. I knew i should have added that in my post.

DeadGnat

Got to see the upcoming Sony KV-40xbr700 (40" direct view)today in bellevue. I think it's the first time this year that I considered a 4:3 tv. I don't like projections (too much sunlight in my room) and I haven't had good luck with RCA products, so this might be a solution, albeit an expensive one.

DVD_O_Rama

I have a 61" 4:3 RPTV in my HT, and bought a 40" 16:9 Toshiba set for my bedroom (simply because it looked pathetic in the place the 61" resided) and sold it shortly thereafter. Yes, anamorphic dvds looked stunning, but I watch more then movies, and squeeze mode and other tricks to let 4:3 programming fill the screen were ridiculous.
When there is ample HD programming, I will happily buy a new 16:9 set for my HT, but as of now there simply isn't enough programming to merit the purchase.
Of course, YMMV.

X

2 of one, 1 of the other.

stevec999

Main set is 55' 16x9. I will never buy another 4x3 set.

I use one of the tv's several modes to fill the screen and we have gotten used to it. It is so much better for DVD and HDTV that I don't mind the distortion on regular tv. We watch a lot of OTA CBS in HDTA.

Steve

Fur Q

32" widescreen baby. only $400.
there are some advantages to living in europe, despite having awful region 2 discs we get cheap quality w/s tv sets.