Lights Out for your bulb

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by GSpector

Quote from SUBMAN1:
"This push feels remiscent of the push for pure digital TV - is it really neccesary? Same idea. Is this just a push by the industry to make a few more $$$ and force the average guy to pay more $$$ to them? That is what you must ask yourself."

Have you seen the new DLP projectors now showing up in theaters? These are also being push at us claiming to be better with sharper images and produces better sound.

Hog wash. DLP has the same problem LCD Monitors do and some CRTs with poor Graphic Card. If you look at any diagonal line or any line not straight up or down and there are Jaggies. Jaggies are not possible with Film projectors.

I agree, just another push for something the industry wants the general population to believe is better. It's not. What it is, is New Technology to replace old technology. That all. Not necessarily better technology.

I agree 100%! DLP should be left out of the theatres. I can see why they want it though - you just have to load up a hard drive and display a movie just like I do at home. Simple. Film is also expensive and prone to degrading quality over time.

DLP / LCD / Plasma all have one thing in common - Poor picture quality. This stems from poor black levels (this part stems from backlighting), set resolutions (off resolutions = bad picture), poor color representation (part of this stems from backlighting again), and rise and fall times.

As you might have guessed, I have no desire to replace my CRT based TV's which are superior in every respect to the current crop of garbage out there. The dithering alone on DLP's and Plasma / LCD's makes it hard to concentrate for me. All I see is ugly picture.

There is one bad thing about CRT's though - I can hear them and they are loud when in operation. somewhere around the 16 khz range.

-S

PS. Maybe movie companies should look at the next generation of equipment on the way out - Laser projection. Laser projection should fix the poor black levels associated with the current generation of video equipment.

PPS. I'm still on the hunt for my Loewe Aconda 40" widescreen CRT as mentioned in a thread a while back - I can't find it yet and I've pretty much given up.

PPPS. One thing that irks me - They bill this to us as a 'better' technology. Quite the contrary.