So, when do you guys think 32" 1080p LCD's are coming out?

[mainman]

Or are they already available.

I plan on buying one, preferably from Sony, that's why this question.

thanx

[dobyblue]

In LCDs Sony has from 40" to 52" in 1080p sets.

[Deciazulado]

There's a Westinghouse 37" and a Samsung 24". Not seen a 32" yet. I want a 170"

[AV_Integrated]

For the human eye to gain any benefit from greater than 720p resolution you must be sitting closer than (about) 2x the screen diagonal from your display. So, for a 30" display, you must be viewing from closer than about 6 feet or so for any benefit.

People tend to completely screw up the correlation of screen size and viewing distance. The number 1080p is almost worthless on its own. It is like how a black and white photo in a newspaper is made up of thousands of tiny black dots. If you looked at it through a microscope, it would be a mess, if you look at it from 10 feet away, it would be perfect. At some point in between you hit that magic point where it still looks perfect, but you can't get ANY closer without it looking a bit worse. That's the edge that must be considered when considering the difference between a SDTV, 720p HDTV, and 1080p HDTV.

In a bedroom, for example, where many people view from 14 feet away in bed and are viewing a 42" plasma, in almost every case a 854x480 EDTV will look 100% as sharp as a 42" HDTV plasma - or a 1080p LCD of the same size! Don't believe it? Go into a store and actually stand that far away from several displays and see for yourself.

For me? I wouldn't really consider 1080p a huge benefit under 50" in almost any circumstance. I will likely purchase a 60"+ lcd flat panel in the next few years and I will definitely go 1080p for front projection. But, under 50" I will stick with 720p and 480p, for the money.

Good read: http://www.soundandvisionmag.com/hit...esolution.html

[Jeff®]

I think that I would like this:

Panasonic's 103" plasma


(click) ^^^

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=7267

[Deciazulado]

Fire the Deci Laser!

Now we're talking!


I watch movies at 1.5x the image's picture height

The Chicken Little demo disc in the Samsung player/display combo at the Best Buy at that viewing distance looked sharper than the Happy Feet IMAX presentation.

[dobyblue]

My mind is set on the 60" XBR3, whenever it comes out next year, as I believe this will be 1.3 HDMI compatible and have HDCP.
Then I'll pick up a Pioneer receiver with HDMI1.3 and DTS-HD/TrueHD decoding and be ready to Blu myself and others away.

[WriteSimply]

60" SED HDTV. Watching any movie on that in a dark room will be sweet.


fuad

[Blackraven]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

60" SED HDTV. Watching any movie on that in a dark room will be sweet.


fuad

Problem with SED though is that it is implemented by Toshiba (primarily) and from past experience of LCD TVs, they look like crap (ie. low contrast ratios). And Canon doesn't even make TVs yet.

I just hope Toshiba would get their act together, otherwise it's OLED for me instead.

[dialog_gvf]

Microsoft is kicking Toshiba's ass delivering a quality HD DVD product. How sad is that?

Cost and reliability will be definite issues with SED, at first. I can't see how contrast ratios will be a problem for SED. They will be staggering. People WILL drool.

SED could be revolutionary. Certainly, it offers the easiest route to quad-HD panels, except maybe iFire. (1080p is so last week )

Gary

[Blackraven]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Microsoft is kicking Toshiba's ass delivering a quality HD DVD product. How sad is that?

Cost and reliability will be definite issues with SED, at first. I can't see how contrast ratios will be a problem for SED. They will be staggering. People WILL drool.

SED could be revolutionary. Certainly, it offers the easiest route to quad-HD panels, except maybe iFire. (1080p is so last week )

Gary

I'll observe on that later on.

But what I want to see is what Sony has to offer. If they finish building their 8G facility late next year, we might see BRAVIA displays that use the "XVYCC" color space.

It will leave the current gen behind

[JTK]

Originally Posted by dialog_gvf

Microsoft is kicking Toshiba's ass delivering a quality HD DVD product. How sad is that?

You lost me here, bud. All the HD-DVD hardware is coming from Toshiba, including the 360 add-on and the RCA clones and the rest of it. It's all coming from Toshiba.

Perhaps I misunderstood what you meant?

Cost and reliability will be definite issues with SED, at first. I can't see how contrast ratios will be a problem for SED. They will be staggering. People WILL drool.

I'm a broken record saying this, but I need to see more than Toshiba and maybe Canon behind it.

I just don't have a lot of confidence in Toshiba at all and I would be loathe to buy one of their CE products ever again.

SED could be revolutionary. Certainly, it offers the easiest route to quad-HD panels, except maybe iFire. (1080p is so last week )

Gary