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TurboNutter · 05-28-2006, 10:55 AM

Seeing as how Blu-ray players are about to hit the market in the coming months, I started looking at 1080p TV's. I have a 32" Sharp AQUOS LCD HD with 1080i which I am sure will produce a beautiful picture with Blu-ray, but I'm still looking around. My question is, does anyone know anything about BenQ brand TV's? Crutchfield has a 1080p at a great price, but I'm not familiar with the brand...anyone?

JTK · 05-28-2006, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by TurboNutter

Seeing as how Blu-ray players are about to hit the market in the coming months, I started looking at 1080p TV's. I have a 32" Sharp AQUOS LCD HD with 1080i which I am sure will produce a beautiful picture with Blu-ray, but I'm still looking around. My question is, does anyone know anything about BenQ brand TV's? Crutchfield has a 1080p at a great price, but I'm not familiar with the brand...anyone?

BenQ's bread and butter is front projection. This is a new frontier for them, but the company as a whole usually turns out quality.

My advice to you, like anyone else would be this:

Don't buy a display until the last minute that you can tolerate. The longer you can wait, the better...especially on anything 1080p.

The Don · 05-28-2006, 06:10 PM

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Originally Posted by JTK

BenQ's bread and butter is front projection. This is a new frontier for them, but the company as a whole usually turns out quality.

My advice to you, like anyone else would be this:

Don't buy a display until the last minute that you can tolerate. The longer you can wait, the better...especially on anything 1080p.

I think that we're 2 years away from 1080p being affordable...

next year, everybody will be popular in the 1080p market.....Samsung, JVC etc....

the following year will have somewhat reasonable prices...

theknub · 05-28-2006, 08:54 PM

i almost wholeheartedly agree to hold off till you either get your player or cant tolerate it anymore. i bought a sony xbr back in december and it is only 1080i. 1080p was JUST beginning to be advertised and even then it was only upconversion i think (mitsu had just come out with a display i believe).

anyway, i have heard a lot about this, but obviously no experience. what size are you looking to get? as i understand, the smaller the display, the less you will notice the picture upgrade from 1080i to 1080p. my t.v. is only a 34 i believe. and really, if 1080p is that much of an upgrade over 1080i, i will personally drop a load in my pants. so anyway, might want to consider that as well when purchasing.

TurboNutter · 05-28-2006, 09:52 PM

Thanks for all of the advice. I have a really small apartment in New York, so I am only looking for a 37". The one major problem I have with my TV is that I am an action and sci-fi fan and I am tired of looking at the "ghosting squares" from the pixels on fast moving pictures. Maybe I am just being too picky. I love my TV and that is my only complaint. I guess I'll wait like everyone says. It seems like the best advice.

cookie · 05-31-2006, 07:03 PM

The new ViewSonic 37 has access 1080P, through the service control Panel, if you want the code to access it, I can give it to you. I got screener release from Paramount last Friday and it looks so nice using 1080P as compared to 1080I. I'm still not overly impressed with HD DVD yet. I also saw a blu-ray last weekend showing a Sony title in Boston and it didn't look that great. I mean I want to see a real difference and I just don't see it.

They were using blu-ray <-> SRX-R110 and they had Panasonic AE-900 <-> HD DVD, and everyone liked the (Panasonic, Toshiba HD-DVD) combo over the (Sony, Sony) combo. The picture just looked more life like, less unreal!

AS for myself I think it would be wise to not buy anything until next year as I noticed that the blu-ray has some of the same manufacturer limitations that the Toshiba already has. I was listening and both techs pretty much said the same thing, they will release upgrades that will fix some of the limitations, but not all because many of the know limitations that now exist are hardware related. It like with the Toshiba, if you make a change to anything related to the display the movie starts over, and I also noticed the blu-ray like the Toshiba takes almost a full minute to untimely load a movie for playing, which is not very nice!

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TurboNutter Member Member since:Apr 2006 Location:New York	Opinions and reviews please? Seeing as how Blu-ray players are about to hit the market in the coming months, I started looking at 1080p TV's. I have a 32" Sharp AQUOS LCD HD with 1080i which I am sure will produce a beautiful picture with Blu-ray, but I'm still looking around. My question is, does anyone know anything about BenQ brand TV's? Crutchfield has a 1080p at a great price, but I'm not familiar with the brand...anyone? Last edited by TurboNutter; 05-28-2006 at 11:12 AM.

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05-28-2006, 08:54 PM	#4
theknub Blu-ray Guru Member since:May 2006	i almost wholeheartedly agree to hold off till you either get your player or cant tolerate it anymore. i bought a sony xbr back in december and it is only 1080i. 1080p was JUST beginning to be advertised and even then it was only upconversion i think (mitsu had just come out with a display i believe). anyway, i have heard a lot about this, but obviously no experience. what size are you looking to get? as i understand, the smaller the display, the less you will notice the picture upgrade from 1080i to 1080p. my t.v. is only a 34 i believe. and really, if 1080p is that much of an upgrade over 1080i, i will personally drop a load in my pants. so anyway, might want to consider that as well when purchasing.

05-28-2006, 09:52 PM	#5
TurboNutter Member Member since:Apr 2006 Location:New York	Thanks for all of the advice. I have a really small apartment in New York, so I am only looking for a 37". The one major problem I have with my TV is that I am an action and sci-fi fan and I am tired of looking at the "ghosting squares" from the pixels on fast moving pictures. Maybe I am just being too picky. I love my TV and that is my only complaint. I guess I'll wait like everyone says. It seems like the best advice.

05-31-2006, 07:03 PM	#6
cookie New Member Member since:May 2006	The new ViewSonic 37 has access 1080P, through the service control Panel, if you want the code to access it, I can give it to you. I got screener release from Paramount last Friday and it looks so nice using 1080P as compared to 1080I. I'm still not overly impressed with HD DVD yet. I also saw a blu-ray last weekend showing a Sony title in Boston and it didn't look that great. I mean I want to see a real difference and I just don't see it. They were using blu-ray <-> SRX-R110 and they had Panasonic AE-900 <-> HD DVD, and everyone liked the (Panasonic, Toshiba HD-DVD) combo over the (Sony, Sony) combo. The picture just looked more life like, less unreal! AS for myself I think it would be wise to not buy anything until next year as I noticed that the blu-ray has some of the same manufacturer limitations that the Toshiba already has. I was listening and both techs pretty much said the same thing, they will release upgrades that will fix some of the limitations, but not all because many of the know limitations that now exist are hardware related. It like with the Toshiba, if you make a change to anything related to the display the movie starts over, and I also noticed the blu-ray like the Toshiba takes almost a full minute to untimely load a movie for playing, which is not very nice! cookie

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