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New Giant Television

I am moving to a new house that has a basement where I intend on setting up my main system. The room is great, about 7' high and the walls about 18' x 23'. I'm all set on the audio setup, not much different from current (with the exeception of lots of room treatments since I will finally have a dedicated room), but with a dedicated room I will have a different video set up.

I want to be able to have ambient light in the room, so I don't want a projector. I don't believe that 3D is the next big thing, don't care about it at all. I don't care if it's plasma, LED, LCD, rear projection, whatever...

I want a giant TV with a great picture, without 3D, I don't care about it's proportions. I've seen Mitsubishi has up to 84" LCD projections screens, the bigger the better.

What suggestions?
macdadtexas
jdub39
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The Mitsu's are up to 92" Dlp, and should b realeased soon. that should be big enough! I beleive price is around $5000
allchemie
118 posts
 
If you don't want to use a front projection set-up, then your only really good choices are the very large Mitsubishi 73" to 92" HDTV's, which can cost from $4,500 to $7,000, or the new Panasonic TCP65VT30 65" VIERA 3D HDTV's or last years Panasonic TCP65VT25 65" plasma's. Personally, I think the Panasonic's have a much better picture than the Mitsubishi's. So your choice comes down to whether you value the largest viewing area, or whether you want the best picture quality. The Panasonic 3D is the best in picture quality even if you never want to use its 3D capability. And you can get them for under $4,000.

To me the 65" plasma is plenty large and I'd rather have the superior image and darkest blacks, along with the best contrast.

Greg
martykl
3,578 posts
 
Greg,

The entry level 73" Mitsu is available under $1200 (from Dell - see my post above). I agree that this isn't the very best image quality available, but it's actually pretty good. And, 73 diagonal inches of image does make an impact.

I use it every day and, aside from the operational quirks I mentioned, I can't bitch. A pretty unusual value proposition in the current market, IMHO, though admittedly not for the coinessuer.

Marty
allchemie
118 posts
 
Marty-

I guess I was looking further up the Mitsubishi food chain on their pricing. But my point still remains the same. The Panny's picture is better than even the best of the Mistu's. I will agree with you that if your priorities are very large picture real estate, such as the Mitsu's 92" set, then go with that. To me, the 65" Panny is so close in size to the 73" Mitsu and with the much better plasma picture resolution and contrast, it is no contest. To me it comes down to the 92" Mitsu or the better picture 65" Panny.

Greg
unsound
7,327 posts
 
FYI:
http://myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html#anchor_13194
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