To show off my Blu should I set it to zoom or leave it as full?

[SonyXBRtv]

What's wrong with Bose? Stop hating. Surely way better than the home theater in a box systems.

[JasonR]

Slightly better, a whole lot more expensive.

http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

Referenced here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=42602

If you like it though, who are we to say....

[SonyXBRtv]

Originally Posted by JasonR

Slightly better, a whole lot more expensive.

http://www.intellexual.net/bose.html

Referenced here:

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=42602

If you like it though, who are we to say....

Same argument can then be made for Pioneer TVs. Slightly better but a whole lot more expensive. I am not that much of a sound buff so this works for me...why are people ripping me for having it in my signature though? I see others with Philips, Sanyo etc. TVs in their signatures yet no one says anything to them? Sorry kind of new to the forum so don't know whats the trend around here.

[Eddie2u]

Originally Posted by SonyXBRtv

Same argument can then be made for Pioneer TVs. Slightly better but a whole lot more expensive.

Model Number: KDL-70XBR7
70" BRAVIA® XBR® LCD Flat Panel HDTV

XBR7 Series features: Full HD 1080p, Motionflow™ 120Hz, BRAVIA Engine™ 2 PRO, 10-bit panel with 10-bit processor, ACE circuit, DMex™ capable, Live Color Creation™ technology, piano gloss black finish

$19,999.99


Model Number: KDL-55XBR8
55" Class BRAVIA® XBR® LCD Flat Panel HDTV (54.6" Diagonally)

XBR8 Series features: Full HD 1080p, TRILUMINOS® RGB LED Backlight, Motionflow™ 120Hz PRO, BRAVIA Engine™ 2 PRO, 10-bit display panel and processor, piano gloss black finish

$6,999.99

How much better are these for the money!

[robertc88]

If you feel the need to zoom with a 46" display, get a larger one! There isn't very much we can do with the aspect ratio on BDs!

[aramis109]

Originally Posted by SonyXBRtv

Same argument can then be made for Pioneer TVs. Slightly better but a whole lot more expensive. I am not that much of a sound buff so this works for me...why are people ripping me for having it in my signature though? I see others with Philips, Sanyo etc. TVs in their signatures yet no one says anything to them? Sorry kind of new to the forum so don't know whats the trend around here.

Because... to put it bluntly... it comes off as uninformed. Plasma and LCD tv's are both here to stay. Many feel that Plasma is a better display technology. I'm a Philips owner- not the best set but sometimes budget constraints force us away from what we feel is best to what we can afford. However, there's a difference between owning a product that's not top-end and believing that your product is top-end just because you spent a lot of money on it.

I'm not going to jump on the Bose bandwagon- JasonR's already provided you with the links as to why folks don't like Bose. (Ok, I lied. I will a little.) You end up paying 2-3x more for what I feel is no improvement in quality over most HTiB systems. For the money you spent, you could easily have a very nice receiver and speaker system that will blow away the muddy Bose system.

Anyway... XBR's are great sets. No one is disputing that. But to say that it'll beat a plasma is like running into the PS3 forum and saying that the Xbox 360 is the best console ever made. You're just setting off a powderkeg.

[GGX]

Originally Posted by SonyXBRtv

What's wrong with Bose? Stop hating. Surely way better than the home theater in a box systems.

They have a terrible reputation in the AV industry for one thing.