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Thread: A TV for the best gaming experience |
    
New member Username: Nde88
Post Number: 1
Registered: Dec-04
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| Posted on Tuesday, December 14, 2004 - 03:27 pm: |
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Hi guys,
Easy question...
I just got Halo2 for Xbox and i've been looking around for a TV to get the best gaming experience $2000 CDN will allow.
I'm looking for a TV that is...
-Flat screen
-HDTV compatible
-28"+
-wide screen
-and other features your experience tells me I should look out for (progressive scan?)
Can you offer any advice as which TV model I you think I may like? Thank you
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New member Username: Xcarcraft
Perth,
WA
Aust
Post Number: 2
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - 03:02 pm: |
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Sharp LCD! |
Silver Member Username: Reinhart
Post Number: 125
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 03:05 am: |
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LCD is okay, but it's refresh lag (although they've gotten a lot better about that) and lack of contrast is still annoying, at least to me.
I'd go with an HDTV Sony Trinitron 16x9 using the XBox high definition pack. Sure, it's a tube set, but Trinitrons are the best kind of tube sets employing an aperture grille instead of a shadow mask and will really blow your socks off when they are properly calibrated. Plus, CRTs still have excellent color fidelity and unsurpassed contrast resolution when compared to other display technologies.
And, of course, the current incarnation of the Trinitron CRT is flat screen. They aren't flat panel displays like plasma and LCD, but they aren't as expensive, aren't as complex, and are capable of delivering a superior picture to boot. - Reinhart |
Gold Member Username: Chaunb3400
Huntsville,
Alabama
U.S.
Post Number: 1683
Registered: Jul-05
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| Posted on Friday, November 18, 2005 - 03:08 am: |
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anything, but plasma, if u pause the game for 2 long it will burn the image in ur screen |
Silver Member Username: Reinhart
Post Number: 138
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 06:29 pm: |
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The possibility of screen burn-in with stationary images displayed for too long is also an issue with rear-projection CRT sets. - Reinhart |
Bronze Member Username: D_singh
Post Number: 40
Registered: Sep-05
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| Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 08:29 pm: |
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Go with an LCD projector. 92" diagonal, mmmm. |
Silver Member Username: Reinhart
Post Number: 141
Registered: Nov-05
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| Posted on Saturday, November 19, 2005 - 11:01 pm: |
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An LCD projector is a good solution, all right, provided that you have the space to take advantage of the huge viewing area and if you have the money to spend on a good LCD projector as well as a quality screen.
But, if you are able to pull it off, try it and have a gaming experience that could rival that of a sit-in arcade game.
It would be nice to have a sound system that can match it, though. But, if you can pull off the projector route ... - Reinhart |
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