: Hi David,: You speak with such flare my friend.
: To bad a guy with such intelligence doesn't do his homework.
: The Sony XBR200 series has absolutely NO visible scan lines! Not even from 5 inches
: away. Your Toshiba has them. Every Toshiba I saw had them. From the least expensive
: to the most expensive. Toshiba's line doubler doesn't work well.
: I think you should take a look at the XBR specs. You need to catch up buddy.
: YES it has a line doubler.
: "New Innovations Enhance Big Screen TVs In big-screen TVs, two
: new Videoscope XBR models feature two exclusive Sony technologies,
: Digital Reality Creation and Multi Image Driver. DRC doubles a picture’s
: horizontal and vertical resolution, providing improved picture quality
: (nearly eliminating today’s scanning lines) and upgrades conventional TV
: signals to near-HDTV picture quality.
: The MID technology will convert standard video source signals to a
: higher resolution picture quality. It also simultaneously displays analog or
: digital TV signals in several, flexible picture-in-picture functions (for
: instance, twin picture-in-picture and freeze mode), while ensuring the
: highest image quality from both sources. Other upgrades in the
: Videoscope XBR line include a new, full-digital autofocusing system
: (which focuses and converges the picture in up to 15 seconds) and a new
: express navigator menu system to make set-up easy. "
: Toshiba simply doesn't make a good TV period. Don't let SungHo fool you. Go out to a
: store and see for yourself. The Mitsubishi's and the Hitachi's all looked much better than
: the Toshiba's. I've been to over 6 stores that sell the new Toshiba's and they all looked
: poor.
: Simply, judge for yourself.
:
: James
: 53XBR200 owner and It looks good all around!
: Mac PB G3 owner.... at least we agree on one thing.
:
James,
You are correct. The Toshiba line-doubling induces motion artifacts that ISF techs have been reporting since the process was initiated on the Toshiba big screens. It has also been reported on this board, but mainly over in the newsgroups. The new Hitachi's and Mitsubishi's are worlds above the Toshiba-And I have heard many people rave about the new XBR-just haven't seen one yet. If you want a soft, movie-like image for DVD, than maybe the Toshiba is OK. But anything else, and the line-doubled image on the Toshiba does not hold up. The line doubler is the only weak link in an otherwise decent TV.
