"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message
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"James Sweet" wrote in message
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Everything that isn't the native resolution will look bad on an LCD TV,
it's the nature of the beast. SD content looks far better on an analog
CRT, it isn't until you get good HD content that the LCD pulls ahead
under many circumstances.

This is simply not true. Properly converted signals look quite good on
high quality LCD sets as they do on other technologies. Lousy
conversions, overcompressed video, or low resolution noisy sources look
bad on any technology. Analog CRTs often look "better" with lousy sources
because they do not reveal as much detail and soften the crap.

Lousy LCDs look lousy on even good HD sources, as do lousy examples of
other technologies. Some sets are more forgiving of certain types of
signals than others, but it has more to do with the signal processing,
calibration of the display, and the source than the technology of the
display.

Leonard



Well what James said holds true to LCD computer monitors also. If you set
the resolution to a non native resolution there are obvious artifacts where
the picture is not as clear.
Anothe example, my friend has a very nice 32" Samsung LCD TV which cost
about $1500. It has a great picture for HD content and DVDs but standard
input of any kind, be it TV, video games etc look much less clear than on a
standard good quality CRT TV. He actually bought the tv to play games and
doesn't use it for that because the quality is so much worse except with
newewer consoles which support HD.

Mike