Monday, February 17, 2014

HDTV & PS3 owners. What type of HDTV do you have connected with the PS3?




West


What brand TV do you you have?
What resolution? as in 1080p etc.

Is the image quality good or do you wish you had another T.V?

Also, if your T.V looks good, what's the model number because I've been searching for the best HDTV available for my PS3.
oh yea, and how is the quality Blu-ray movies?



Answer
If you want the best, then go for the new Pioneer KURO plasmas, specifically the PDP-5010FD which is a 50-inch full HD 1080p plasma HDTV (1920x1080 pixels). It currently sells for around $3800 online (list is $5K).

Why is it the best? A number of reasons. Plasma, with its self-illuminated pixels, is much better than LCD technology at reproducing shades of black and dark colors, hence has better contrast. LCDs never quite make it to deep black because the panels are illuminated by CCFL backlights which can never be completely turned off. A plasma's better contrast and black level reproduction can preserve the shadowy details of PS3 games (and Blu-ray Disc movies) without having to boost the brightness which crushes the whites and light colors. And Pioneer's new Kuro plasmas are the best at blacks.

Also, plasmas are better with motion reproduction. LCD sets, even the newer 120 Hz models from Sharp, Toshiba and Samsung do still exhibit faint motion trails behind fast moving images. This is really distracting on fast moving games, sports and movies. The so-called "game modes" on many LCD TVs (including the Sony XBR LCDs) actually disables their 120 Hz processing, in order to prevent response time lag, thereby eliminating the 120Hz motion processing advantages.

And the common misconceptions about plasma technology (burn-in, plasma gas "leakage," limited life-span) have all been fixed since about the 3rd or 4th generation. Actually "leakage" never happened - just a myth perpetuated by LCD TV salespeople. I believe Panasonic is now on their 10th generation plasma panel and Pioneer is on their 9th generation.

Current plasma sets from Panasonic and Pioneer will last approximately 60,000 hours until half brightness - that's 27 years watching 6 hours of TV a day. Good enough? If not, please get thee to a lifery!

And burn-in is only a risk if you keep your plasma in "torch mode" with the brightness and contrast boosted to an artificially high level. If you calibrate your set properly (something you can do with a $30 set-up DVD and about 1/2 hour of time), then burn-in will never be a factor, even with gaming. The worst you might get is temporary "image retention" which goes away pretty quickly.

If $3800 is a bit too steep, then the Pioneer 768p plasmas and the Panasonic 1080p and 768p plasmas are excellent alternatives for a lot less coin.

HDTV picture quality question?




Jay C


Bought a 50" Panasonic HDTV last week. Bought a DVD player that is HD ready (has the slot in the back for the HD cable). Anyway, wired the DVD player to the TV and picture quality for my DVD player is so much better that for the cable. If I get an HD box from my cable company and hook up the HD cord to it, will my standard cable look as good as my DVD's or will it still be just average? I'm not talking about the HD channels but EVERY channel. Thanks.
I didn't buy the cable (for the cable) yet because our current digital cable box does not have an HDMI slot in the back. I called the cable company (Time Warner) yesterday and they are bringing a new box for be tomorrow. I will be stopping somewhere today to get a Monster cable for this.



Answer
It is going to depend on what type of cable box your cable company provides. Most likely, and most unfortunately, they'll give you a cable box that provides HD quality video on HD channels only. You'll get a good picture on digital channels, think DVD quality, but not like HD-DVD or Blu-Ray quality. And the analog channels are going to look like crap, because they'll be stretched out...

You have to ask your cable company how many HD and digital channels you have, because those are going to have the better quality images.

Hope this helps.




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