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Oh cheese and rice.

It was a picture of a gigantic loader steam-shovel thing.

I'll go mind my own business now.

Very good, Mike; you can keep the back hoe put away until winter(next month for y'all). All I ever wanted to do here was to correct the salesman's notion(think he meant 540, not 520)that you only saw half of the nominal resolution in a 1080i transmission. Apparently he didn't grasp how a CRT HD set worked so that a full 1080 frame was seen, or how HD sets other than CRTs used deinterlacing to combine the two fields before they were shown.

Wow.. Thank you John and Mike.. I have created a "monster" !! but in a good way I think


Like I said before..complicated stuff for those without a broadcast / video engineering masters degree

I think part of the reason why I like my HD CRT picture quality, albeit the highest I've watched is regular DVD, might have something to do with my CRT's capabilities in black levels, maybe ?. I don't know and I don't pretend to fully understand..

All I am saying is that to my eyes, my Sony XBR 34" 1080i CRT TV looks pretty damm good for the stuff I'm watching on it.. and that I am under - impressed with the HD picture (satelite) I have seen on my father in law's brand new Panasonic 46" plasma 800 series tv..
I just expected much better PQ ..and that is a BIG reason why I have not switched to HD broadcast or replace my TV yet..

Riker, I had a Sony XBR960 34" TV and I loved the picture on it. My parents have the TV now. I sold it to them last time I moved because I didn't want to lug the thing up another flight of steps. The image on that CRT was natural and sharp.

Wise choice Riker. I held of for 4 years because of quality and pricing issues and I was watching on a 21" crt.

I expect that you will still see substantial price and image quality improvement in LCDs with an outside possibility that something like OLED technology moves far enough along the technology/development curve to deliver something even better, but don't hold your breath.