LCD vs CRT

I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D

"D" wrote in news:1154979752.455672.285350
@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D



Say hello to what the lcd and plasma makers don't want to talk about.
They're great for HD but SD is usually better on a CRT, particularly a
quality CRT like Sony, just not as big. SD will be around a long time for a
variety of reasons.

On 8/7/2006 2:42 PM, D wrote:
I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D


The LCD has to do scaling because it is higher resolution than the CRT.
This creates jaggies just like when you try to enlarge a bitmap image
on a computer. The good news is there is more and more hd content every
month and DVDs look great in 480p/720p.

CRT ALLLL THE WAY... Toshibia 86cm HD 720 and 1080i tv me got

Waitin for SED and that TV go's into the bedroom



On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 15:49:37 -0500, wrote:

On 8/7/2006 2:42 PM, D wrote:
I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D


The LCD has to do scaling because it is higher resolution than the CRT.
This creates jaggies just like when you try to enlarge a bitmap image
on a computer. The good news is there is more and more hd content every
month and DVDs look great in 480p/720p.

Home Theatre Guy wrote in message
...


CRT ALLLL THE WAY... Toshibia 86cm HD 720 and 1080i tv me got

Waitin for SED and that TV go's into the bedroom



http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/te...th&oref=slogin

D wrote:
I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D
It all depends on the quality of the signal and the quality of the LCD
set. My Dad purchased a 32" Panasonic LCD set and receives analog
cable. His picture quality is fantastic on most channels. But there
are some channels that just do not look good. They happen to be the
same channels that look poor on my crt HD set at home over cable. In
this case the limitation is the signal, or poor video to start with.

His Panasonic HD set is not top of the line, but it's very good. I
find with LCD sets that it's best to go with established brands and as
high-end as one can afford. My Dad also picked up a 15" Sharp LCD set
for his kitchen and it looks good, but not as good as his 32" Panasonic
LCD set. They both get the same cable signal. In this case the
limitation is the tv set.

wrote:

D wrote:
I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D
It all depends on the quality of the signal and the quality of the LCD
set. My Dad purchased a 32" Panasonic LCD set and receives analog
cable. His picture quality is fantastic on most channels. But there
are some channels that just do not look good. They happen to be the
same channels that look poor on my crt HD set at home over cable. In
this case the limitation is the signal, or poor video to start with.


You're comparing HD CRT to HD LCD - so of course standard cable looks
comparable (i.e. lousy).

He's comparing a 10 yr old (hence NON-HD) CRT which was designed for
standard cable, to an HD LCD which is designed for HDTV.

D wrote:
I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D

Just get HD content and your problem is solved. Once you get HD, there
will be NO need for the crappy SD anyways

Keith
http://www.eHDMI.com

Bob (but not THAT Bob) wrote:
wrote:

-D
It all depends on the quality of the signal and the quality of the LCD
set. My Dad purchased a 32" Panasonic LCD set and receives analog
cable. His picture quality is fantastic on most channels. But there
are some channels that just do not look good. They happen to be the
same channels that look poor on my crt HD set at home over cable. In
this case the limitation is the signal, or poor video to start with.


You're comparing HD CRT to HD LCD - so of course standard cable looks
comparable (i.e. lousy).

He's comparing a 10 yr old (hence NON-HD) CRT which was designed for
standard cable, to an HD LCD which is designed for HDTV.
No I'm not.

I'm answering his question about SD PQ on an HD LCD set. That the PQ
isn't so much dependent on the hardware as it is the signal quality.

I have a CRT HD set and the PQ of "SD" material on my set is
outstanding. Unless the incoming signal/material is poor to begin
with. Same thing on my Dad's HD LCD set.

I got excellent PQ on my old tube set, and it's even better on my new
HD set. There is no reason that SD material has to look poor on an HD
set, regardless of the display technology - unless the signal is poor
to begin with. The SciFi channel looks awful on my new set, as it does
on my Dad's HD LCD set. It looks bad on my old tube set as well. On
the other hand, Discovery looks great on all these sets. Of course,
Discovery HD Theater looks even better, but that's beside the point.

Good SD PQ is not a thing of the past.

On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:23:08 GMT, "Bob (but not THAT Bob)"
wrote:

wrote:

D wrote:
I bought a LG 26" LCD HDTV just yesterday as an open box from Circuit
City. It was a really good deal. I as of now only have regular cable,
so I don't have HD capabilities yet. I'm looking into this.
Nonetheless, it appears that my 10-year old CRT television has a better
picture than the LCD television. The tv is in fine shape by the way. Do
non-HD programs show up better on CRTs than on LCDs? I guess my
question, is what are the advantages of the CRT versus LCD...other than
size? I would consider myself a novice on this, so any help would be
appreciated. Thanks.

-D
It all depends on the quality of the signal and the quality of the LCD
set. My Dad purchased a 32" Panasonic LCD set and receives analog
cable. His picture quality is fantastic on most channels. But there
are some channels that just do not look good. They happen to be the
same channels that look poor on my crt HD set at home over cable. In
this case the limitation is the signal, or poor video to start with.


You're comparing HD CRT to HD LCD - so of course standard cable looks
comparable (i.e. lousy).

He's comparing a 10 yr old (hence NON-HD) CRT which was designed for
standard cable, to an HD LCD which is designed for HDTV.

I have a 14 year old 27" Hitachi that shows a great picture even
though the tuners died long ago. I use the tuner in the VCR which
works just fine. I also feed this set from tuner #2 on the 622
satellite receiver. I also have a new SamSung 40" 4092 LCD set.

I have basic cable, Good OTA antennas (at 90' with a remote pre-amp)
and a Dish Network 622 dual tuner DVR.

SD, be it off the air (analog or digital) or satellite(digital)
produces a very good image on both sets. Of course the image quality
on analog is much more dependent on the signal strength. Cable
(analog) stinks on both sets. Digital SD be it OTA or Satellite is
quite good. The most difficult part of comparisons is to make the
comparisons strictly in SD and try not to compare any of these to HD
as you know how much better an image that will give.

Brightness, contrast, and color range are at least as good if not
better on the LCD than my 19" CRT monitors. I recently gave away two
19" and one 17" CRT monitors and switched to LCDs for photo editing.
I'm using a 20" SamSung SyncMaster 204B for that. One of those 19"
monitors was less than two years old.

When I get the money for another 20" (or larger" LCD monitor, the last
19" CRT will go. Unfortunately it's "that time of the year" where I
have a lot of expenses and I still need two more large hard drives, a
KNX-80 RNAV aviation radio fixed, a *large* rotator rebuilt, and a lot
of other expenses.sigh

I think another 4092 would look good over my desk out in the work
shop, but that ain't a gonna happen unless I win the lottery.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com
Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com