Widescreen tv?
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Well it's NOT your TV that is bad.you have a High Definition TV set that displays GREAT HD pictures!
The problem is the LOW DEFINITION TV signals, since they are "line doubled"...That means they take ONE line and write it twice to your TV screen, which Magnifys the picture and now you see all the "shortcomings" of the older type of signal. Also, the low definition signals are analog and not a digital signal...Analog signals have some noise and digital signals are absolutely noise free!
So that's why 2 DIFFERENT brands of TV show such icky pictures...but don't worry, they will be going away in the future.
Of course IF YOU WANT THE BEST, purchase the Hitachi 51F59 WIDE Screen TV.now that has the 1080 Native Resolution, costs only $900 and has a built in DIGITAL TUNER! That will get your LOCAL stations in Digital and provide a much better picture on local stations until you can get a HIGH DEFINITION Satellite or Cable box !
You'll see a HIGHER resolution than the JVC or the Sanyo or the Polaroid could ever get! And the best thing.it doesn't cost an arm and a leg to repair it.and all TVs eventually have at least one repair in the life of the TV.
Just think.you could grab your old antenna, hook it up to the Hitachi 51F59 and be recieving NOISE FREE local stations as soon as you hook it up.And YES, it is razor sharp reception, but it isn't HD until you hook up a set-top box from your Cable/Satellite company.
Heck I got impatient and purchased a Voom DSR550 HD reciever and started recieving HD local stations. NOW with my low def satellite and my HD local reciever, I turn on the PIP, use Local HD and Satellite's Locals and compare the two right next to each other.IT is totally different pictures between the two on the same station!! I watched Law and Order, and on Low Def the guy had a 5 o'clock shadow, while he had 3-4 day stubble on HIGH DEF !! Wow! What a difference! And you can see the weave of the fabrics! And the bark on trees! And Freckles, Zits, and Bushy Eyebrows!
Looks like you're sitting right next to them!
That's been the trouble with HD sets since day one. Whenever you show a low def picture on an HD set, the signal gets upconverted and looks like hell. Once you get a good HD signal on any of them, you will be blown away at how good it looks. Just don't expect low def to look good... it can't. a high def display shows all the shortcomings that you couldn't see on your low def TV in the past.That would be like putting paint thinner in the gas tank of your Porsche... it might run, just not very well.
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