Hey everyone. Yup, nother newbie, sorry (haha) and thanks for all the help. The BIG question for today (and so my room can get back in order) is this: Should I use the 50 inch Widescreen Plasma TV, or the 20 inch Flat Tube CRT ? Here's the thing.... The 20 inch would be right at Arm Height while sitting down The 50 inch is mounted so the Bottom rests at head level standing up (like 5 feet) and goes up to 7.5 feet. There is a 10 degree down angle, but when sitting in bed, the sensor will still be pointing past my head. Both are about 6.5-7 feet away. I tested the 50 with the Sensor at the bottom of the TV and tilted it down a bit so it was fairly level with my arm when pointing up to the tv. It was about on par with when I had it set to the 20 inch. Neither were 1-1, but not bad. And as I have the built in Motion Plus controllers, so I imagine when I can do a screen calibration on specific games it should be better. But really DOES ANYONE HAVE HANDS ON EXPERIENCE in similar setups to suggest which would be better longterm ? THANKS ps- can gaming hurt my Plasma tv?
a 20 inch is too small to play games on imo. Unless your playing vintage games. So I'd go with the 50 inch and enjoy the screen size. I use a 50 inch at home and have had no problems with the sensor or distance.
You can set the sensor bar wherever you want, so just place it in a place that allows for comfortable pointing and you'll be used to it in no time. It ends up being just like a mouse, where you're not pointing anywhere even close to where the cursor is, but it's still easy and natural to control.
I've played the Wii on a huge projector set high on a wall with the sensor bar sitting on the edge of a stage at about chest level, twenty feet in front of the screen. It only took a few seconds to get used to it.
Go with the plasma. A large widescreen 480p plasma picture is better than a tiny 20" CRT screen. Plasmas are usually good at upscaling the Wii's non HD resolution so it should look pretty nice, assuming you use component cables. I can't play games on tiny 4:3 TVs any more, it's just wrong.
I missed this part earlier. My plasma TV has a burn-in protection mode that automatically shifts the display a few pixels in each direction every few minutes. But even if yours doesn't have anything like that, you should be fine. Just make sure that the same exact image isn't on the screen in the same place for hours and hours at a time. Most games have enough loading screens or whatever to break up the still HUD images periodically, so you should be just fine.
Plasma all the way. Yeah the Wii isn't going to look super nice but still 480p and 16:9 display is preferred over 20" display. Make sure you have component cables. If you don't its going to look like a pile of crap.
Yes, gaming can, because of the presence of HUDs. I suggest you go through the break-in period by watching a lot of movies and playing games that don't have fixed/permanent HUDs.
That s*** is one of the reasons I didn't get a Plasma TV :evil:
Yes, gaming can, because of the presence of HUDs. I suggest you go through the break-in period by watching a lot of movies and playing games that don't have fixed/permanent HUDs.
That s*** is one of the reasons I didn't get a Plasma TV :evil:
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Yeah usually new plasma TV's should be viewed for like 20 or 30 hours before you play games or watch sports on them because of HUD or sports scores which stay on the screen at all times. This really isn't that much of a problem with plasmas anymore though and it's more of a safety precaution. After that initial period it's fine though, it's worth it as most plasmas display non HD images better than LCDs an have better contrast ratios. If you've had your plasma for a while though obviously it won't be an issue.
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