Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners 50 DLP inches for under $2500, what's best?

The 60" SXRD can be had for about $4000 if you look around.

Just forget the ears!! Its the picture that counts!!!!

Cut and pace from price grabber search........


Sony Grand WEGA KDS-R60XBR1 60" LCOS Projection TV
(16:9, HDTV - SKU: KDSR60XBR1)
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Description: Sony’s 60" Grand WEGA™ SXRD™ Rear Projection HDTV is the perfect addition to your living room. The KDS-R60XBR1 is equipped with SXRD technology which employs three Silicon X-tal Reflective Display panels, which aid in the response time of i.... Read More

Looks like the price has gone down a little. There are some pretty good buys listed there.

I bought my 50 SXRD from a local hifi shop for 3599 (cheaper than BB or CC). I am very pleased with it.

I don't mind the dumbo ears. I'd LOVE to own one of these new sony's...the trouble is with those ears it won't fit where I need to place my new tv!

I doubt it will fit for me either, unless I rearrange the room, but then I lose the proper placement for the QS8's as surrounds. There isn't a good place to mount them if the room is setup the other way. The one side wall would be open to the next room.

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Rat,i was questioning doubtingthomas because i have the Toshiba 52hm84 also and it only has one hdmi. by the way i love my set i got almost a year ago onecall.com had a great price free shipping and one year free financing.

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I stand corrected, my t.v. has only 1 HDMI out. Thanks for catching that, I hate giving incorrect info.

No prob i was just worried i had gotten a baad deal. lol

1080i and 720p will face a quick death? That is absolutely untrue. Very little (if any) editing software or hardware is available in Hollywood for post production at the 1080p standard. Everything is downconverted and then edited. Porbably even more importantly though is the fact that most if not all broadcasters do not have the capability to transmit at that rate even if the content were available. It is very tough now to "fit" the 1080i signal in the 6MHz bandwidth space that exists "per channel" and add to the fact that many broadcasters currently multi-cast and you pretty much have a guarantee that 1080p isn't going to happen anytime soon. On yet another note, most of the 1080 tv's that exist WILL NOT accept a 1080p signal. They simply upconvert all signals to 1080i and with varying degrees of success based on what video processors they use.

Scott

What you say is correct. My Sony upconverts 1080I or 720P to 1080P. There have been some reports of a few folks using one of the ports and transmitting 1080P directly to the TV but you don't find anything about it in the instruction manual. At least, I haven't found it yet.

Some of the new 2006 models take 1080P directly input through the HDMI port, I believe.

Anyway, because of the much wider bandwidth requirement of 1080P, you probably won't see over the air or cable TV using that format any time soon. Games and DVDs??? Well, that is another story.