Haha no prob....who cares about astro crappy picture. Just get any LCD and use good s-video cable and you are done. X series too high class for astro

I would venture to say... LCD TV too high class for Astro... go find a cheap second-hand 34" CRT for excellent PQ...

Even a back projection TV is good.

So, what 99<0's comment is LCD TV now is ONLY good for Gaming console and PC connection. Astro & movies should hook-up with Plasma TV. In other words,
all HDMI players, Blu-ray players, HDMI Receivers and Hardcore Speakers to produce all HD pictures and audios are BEST pair with Plasma TV.

So, beware all LDC potential buyer, and luckily I am a plasma owner, In other words, Plasma is more relevant to Home Theatre and this implies its limitless potential in the future movie generation. BTW, most of the advanced talk about hardware like BDP, HD AVRS, HD Surround are associated with Movies, indirectly Plasma......I rest my case.

Not really la. Full HD LCD also got excellent PQ for HD movies.

Dont agree so..

from my point of view, go for Full HD LCD for astro...and some my friend said astro using analog signal that is the reason lcd using digital signal can't accept well....

getting a Full HD LCD just for viewing astro only is not a good idea.. since astro is not broadcasted at 1080p

Wrong... and wrong. Please double check your facts to avoid confusing other forum members.

Astro is regular PAL interlaced signal (576i), so HD Ready sets don't have to upscale so much and will look better. Full HD sets will have to upscaled to 1080p, and you can't just add information that isn't there, therefore you'll get more blocking and colour runs.

Poor picture on LCDs have nothing to do with the analog signals. A good analog component 480p signal from a good DVD player can frequently look better than a poor HDMI set. The reason Astro looks bad is because of the amount of compression that Astro applies to its channels in order to cram them all into that limited bandwidth. Because the LCD has to upscale, compression blocks and artifacts look far more obvious, depending on the quality of the upscaler in the LCD TV.

But u have mentioned before, HD Ready tv also upscaled everything to 1080p before downscale to 720p such as Panny Plasma correct ??

That's the Panasonic method. And, you are watching 768p finally, not 1080p, which means the poor quality picture does not have to be stretched so much. You will notice that Astro looks very good on those old 42" EDTV 832x480 plasmas too (like the LG42PC3), cause there's very little interpolation going on.

Copy that. U are a real technician behind those technologies. Keep it up.

But if there are die hard fans still wanna to use LCD to watch astro, take 2 notes. Choose only HD ready and smaller size like 32inch. I found Sharp Aquos 32inch very good in handling astro....

another way is to sit far far away from your LCD TV and you will not notice the bad PQ in Astro.

Or get a monster s-video cable.....



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This post has been edited by DigitalTech: Jun 5 2009, 11:38 AM

guys.. i just wanna use my tv to watch astro & play dvd movie once in a while..

Among the cheapest i can get now is 32' inch sharp aquos.. so basically i just get tis LCD TV + Monster cable and that would be around 2k.

Is that rite? OR is there any 32 Plasma TV? Sould I just get 32' LCD TV + Monster cable or just 32' Plasma for the best picture quality on Astro..

Are you referring to 32A33 or 32A53?

i heard SONY T Series LCD is good with astro & no need to get other S-video cable just used that come with astro..dunno la kan...

I am considering getting a flat screen for astro watching. Since the sentiment is plasma is better, I am considering 2 models:

Panasonic 42PV8 or Hitachi P42A01A.

What really interest me is the Hitachi's ALiS panel which has 1080i and the fact that ALiS panel supposed to use less power because pixels are lit one row after the other.

What do you guys think? Anyone got experience with these (esp the Hitachi?)

^ The Hitachi Plasmas tend to "flicker" more than others.. Make sure you're ok with that before making a purchase.

^ What do you mean by flicker? Do you mean the TV "scans" (i know its not really scanning but for comparison) like a CRT?

I am referring 32A53. Try not to watch too close then it is pretty ok.