which model do you have?? ive have the thx-600u model, ranked #2 back in september, $2500 at best buy and C.C., the best part------$1250.00 at buy dig.com, free shipping and no tax, $150, for onsite 3 year extended warranty

but yeah 60000 hours, and it aint going to fail like they used to, or at least hope not,lol......1 bad **** picture it has

 

TH-42PX60U 1199 at Circuit City on Black Friday 2006. I still have not seen a flat panel with a better picture.

Mike

 

Some TV stations broadcast in 720p, others in 1080i. Those are the two choices for HDTV and will remain so for the forseeable future. HD DVD and Blu Ray both encode the vast majority of movies in 1080p, either in 24 frames per second or 60 frames per second depending on how they were originally filmed. If they were caught on film at 24 frames per second, that is how they are encoded, if they are caught digitally at 60 frames per second that is how they are encoded. Some HD DVD and Blu Ray players can output the video at the same frame rate as the original encoding to get around 3:2 pulldown. In order to properly display that you need a 1080p TV with a refresh rate of 120Hz, which is where the newest technology is going. That way a frame from a 24fps movie is displayed 5 times, and a frame from a 60fps movie is displayed twice, and then it moves to the next frame. Otherwise a TV with a 60Hz refresh rate will display one frame 3 times, and the next frame 2 times, which sometimes results in somewhat awkward motion when objects are moving fast. It is difficult to see on smaller screens, but the bigger you go, or closer you sit the more noticeable it is. Just like the difference between a 720p display (or 768 in a lot of cases), and a 1080 display.

If you are sitting more than 10 feet away from a 50" TV you won't really see much of a difference between 720 and 1080 so you could save money and get a TV with the lower resolution.