This has probably been discussed till the donkeys came home. Presently have a 60" 4:3 Hitachi 1080i, which is magnificent. However I am sick of the gray bars top and bottom when watching HD. Thinking of the Mitsubishi 65" DLP, which Circuit City has on sale for about $2800. The room it is going in is very bright during the day,so much that the picture on my current Hitachi can't be seen (skylight right over the tv). The other thing is we watch a lot of 4:3 tv, and does that mean gray bars on the right and left constantly? Thanks
Be advised that there are several tiers of the Mitsubishi 65" set. The one selling at circuit city is the bottom of the tier (WD-Y65). The set is a great set but they pitt the price against similiarly sized Mitsu's at best buy, etc, which are different models. Check the Mitsu site for the different model numbers so you can accurately compare features and prices. http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/j/i/18308/ModelSelector.html I was able to haggle the price of the WD 65732, top of the tier except for the diamond series, to around $3000. If you are so inclined you can find excellent deals online at reputable dealers and ofeten get free shipping and NO TAX. As for the bars on the sides of the screen, yes, with 4:3 aspect shows you will have them. I got HD cable when I got my set and most of the network, prime-time shows are broadcast in widescreen HD and fill the screen. You will still get a huge pic in 4:3 with the 65" screen.
I appreciate your info, a friend said to eliminate the left and right bars watching 4:3 you can "stretch" the pic, and the new sets do so without it be "that" obvious
You can certainly do that. You will lose some crispness of the picture because you are overscanning the available image, blowing it up, so-to-speak. Some of the set's resolution is spent on displaying those black bars. The set does not automatically adjust when they (the bars) are scanned off of the screen to devote the entire resolution to the original picture. Say you have a picture made up of 25% black bars and 75% signal that take up the whole screen area, with a proportionate amount of the available resolution devoted to each. When you overscan (blow up) the picture to eliminate the black bars you are left with (in this example) a picture at 75% resolution being displayed at the full area of the screen. So you will see some differences in picture quality.
i feel like i'm in engineering school listining to you....lol Good info, one more question the room is very brightly lit, skylight over the tv, can't see the current hitachi pic during the day, frustrating. And sitting in front of the tv is a mirror, i mean i can shave lookin at it. so......which...lcos or dlp for a bright lit room daytime thanks joe
Both screens have an anti-reflective layer on them and are nice and bright. However, direct light on the screen, such as with a west facing set in front of an east facing window, will cause lightening of the pic or light areas of the screen, washing out the picture. I'm not sure what the effect of overhead lighting would be. I guess it would depend on if it were directly on the screen or more of an ambient effect, brightening up the room. Sorry I can't be of more help on this subject.
