[QUOTE="dmanrevived"]It's a decent TV. Go into a store and see if it's big enough for you. It worries me that you're only 17 and trying to finance a HDTV, which is more of a luxury than a neccessity. What's the APR? Or how many payments and how much each month?Daffy101

I know its not a necessity but it'd be nice to have one. It said a minimum of 10 dollars a month but since i'm part time i will be making around 550-600 a month, so I could pay it off in a few months. What tv do you have?

EDIT: Also it said no APR until December 2009 (If you haven't paid it in full by then

http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Sharp-32-LCD-HDTV-LC32D62U/sem/rpsm/oid/174523/catOid/-12867/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do

I was thinking about buying that television and having a monthly payment on it. Basically I'm just looking for something that will amp up my gaming graphics to the max. And also, for those of you that have an HDTV, do you think that 32" is enough for a good experience? I'm 17 and I have a part time job (thats why I want to do payments monthly), and am right now stuck with a 17" SDTV :cry:. So, in your opinion, would a 32" be worth buying or should I buy a larger one? And would that TV be a good one to buy?

Daffy101

There's no way it doesn't. You're overlaying another color over them allKodai_kun

Interesting, but doesn't that distort all your colours?dmanrevived

If the CRT and flat panel are the same size, same build quality, and the CRT's max res is the same as the flat panel's native res, then I'd pick the CRT any day if weight wasn't an issue. The reason people are flocking towards flat panels is because they're thin and light and sexy. If CRT and DLP were in the same shape and form as flat panels, people would choose them instead for their performance.dmanrevived

Okay here is the answer to why this happens.  Traditional standard defintion TVs, the tube type, have an area of the screen that is called overscan.  The tube's screen surface is actually bigger than the visible portion with in the framing.  This is so that we don't see the edges of the picture, as with a tube TV it doesn't look perfect.  With plasma and LCD screens however, the every pixel is visible within the frame, there is no overscan portion of the screen that would be hidden in a tube TV.  So developers of PS2 games try to maximize performance, by not rendering anything in the pixels that are over scanned on SD tube TVs, since that portion of the screen will most likely not be visible.  So even after you adjust your game to widescreen, those thing black bars at the sides of your plasma TV, are the portions that would have traditionally been over scanned and not in the visible portion of a tube TV.

Now with games on the 360 and PS3 in HD, running in 720p or 1080i/p they are designed to use the full resolution, and on plasma and LCD TVs there is no need for overscan.

Jamibung

im assuming all technology back then was made like that, then why does my old vcr, and new dvd play fill up the entire screen?

http://www.futureshop.ca/marketing/superblu/?logon=&langid=EN

yupp two conflicting formats in one player , btw if anyone has an article about this can you post a link

[QUOTE="BlacKJaCK2290"]I say around 1000:1smurfah15

I say around 1000:1BlacKJaCK2290