10-08-2012, 10:42 AM
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Originally posted by kalakoa
This might sound elitist, but: don't buy consumer-grade crap.
My previous mainland TV setup included a 27" studio Trinitron. It wasn't cheap, but it was indestructible, and the picture was absolutely beautiful; the montor would converge all the way to 4MHz, with real 9300K color. I miss that tube.
Current TV rig features an older flatpanel with DCDi by Farouja; I've had this display for over 15 years without any issues, and the picture quality is better than anything in the stores today.
Modern stuff suffers from massive "spec inflation", and often looks like crap, even at "low" resolution 720p. Unfortunately, the "race to the bottom" has displaced honest vendors of real product, so it's become nearly impossible to find any quality.
Most people don't want to spend the money on "quality" stuff when the Next Big Thing hasn't been released to the market yet.
While I agree with you in principle, I'm also wondering if you clung to your betamax unit when all of the studios stopped releasing movies in betamax in favor of VHS? Hopefully you didn't rush out and buy an iPhone5
