Why Do Lcd Tv’s Have Such A Bad Picture?
February 11, 2010 by Rich
Filed under Frequently Asked Questions
ok so in my home we hav ein the living room one of those tvs they sold about 3 years ago that have like a projection or somtehing and they have a bulb inside them. you know what imean? they told us it was an lcd at the time but now they tell us its somethign else. anyway, that tv was beautiuful. still us. and our old crt tv’s with the help of convertre box also have flawless pictures.
but i felt it was time to upgrade to a nice big tv. i wanted one just like the living room tv. oh thats a beautiful flawless picture. everyeon told me, for a 32 inch tv, you dont need 1080 i, just 720 p. i looked at various sets and they seemed all right i guess. but i wanst really impressed. i thought well it will just have to do.
now i have moved thsi 32″ set into my room. and i sit about 4 or 5 feet away from it. but it hurts my eyes! its so hard on my eyes to watch it. i used to sit about 2 feet away from the 42″ tv and it never hurt my eyes. this LCD and many others i’ve seen in teh store, have a fuzzish picture and they make your eyes hurt to watch them. the quality on the LCDs i was looking at is scarcely better than analog.
i have this tv: http://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-REGZA-32CV…
it only looks good in when it plays shows in 1080 i. i noticed this on many other tvs that were more expenisve than this one. why are 720 LCD tv’s worse than analog when the broadcast is not in 1080 i?
I think the problem you are seeing is not that it’s an LCD screen, but instead you have an large LCD screen, I had a small Olevia LCD HDTV and in my experience, it had a great image, I could tell a big difference in resolution from a standard definition digital channel and an HD channel
I have then gotten a Sony Bravia LCD HDTV, and compared to the Olevia, it was huge, after doing a channel scan and viewing the same channels I did on the Olevia on the Bravia, the quality was worse on the Bravia, just because it was larger, and it wasn’t that it was fuzzy, it’s just a little more garbley (like an internet video)
The type of television you are talking about with a bulb is a CRT rear projection television, or maybe a DLP television
All standard def signals look like crap on all HDTV’s. This video is – designed for a nine-inch tube, black and white, and was the cutting edge of technology back in 1948. And to be backwards compatible – even a DVD maintains this standard.
The TV companies have 70 years experience trying to make the old TV signal look good/hide the flaws with a tube TV. HDTVs dont bother because their main focus is HD images. While they are backwards compatible with standard def – it’s like magnifying a newspaper: you see all the flaws with a high resolution display. So standard def looks worse, not better.
Your TV will look good with either 720 or 1080 signals. Upgrade your service to more HD channels and forget about standard def.
i hope this makes sense, your new tv has the ability to give you a great picture but at the same time it is also very good at exploiting the flaws in a bad picture. the lines of resolution and the refresh rate are better then your old tv so it lets you see everything better good and bad.
your high-def picture and dvd’s should be good if not it may not be set-up correctly. let me know if you need help. bman_68@yahoo.com