1080i on 32" HDTV's with 1366x768 res. ??? how?

[jagabo]

Sharp has several 32" 1080p LCD models ranging from about US$950 to US$1250 at Amazon.com. I don't know how good they are though. Their 720p models are a few hundred cheaper. All else being equal, at that size you would have to sit less than ~5 feet away to see a difference.

[edDV]

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What Brands use high-end technology>?

Brand names each have their own version of image processing chips usually offered in two or three quality levels. For example Sony has a value line and two XBR levels for their LCD-TV sets.

As a general statement, Sony, Samsung and Sharp are usually considered better for processing in their high end LCD-TV models where Pioneer and Panasonic are often mentioned for plasma.

Bargain models use generic chipsets. In general you are better off with the latest generation chip designs. Try to figure out when the specific model was introduced. Other clues are inclusion of digital tuners and more HDMI inputs which are recent trends for low end models.

[turk690]

to snadge, upscaling DVD players are NOT a need. They are there tp present an alternative to an ordinary DVD player such that you can try and see if the DVD's upscaler will produce a better picture than the case would be if you just fed an ordinary SD signal to the LCD monitor and LET the LCD do the upscaling. You now have a choice of two scalers there, so to say. With so many signals out there it's hard to predict what will faze any scaler in either the DVD player or the monitor so it's always best to have a choice. For example, in my situation, on a majority of 480i SD DVDs I play on my DVD-S52 Panasonic player connected to the PT-AE900U projector either by HDMI (DVD player output set to 720p to match the native 720 of the projector) or analogue progressive component (of course the projector alone will scale the 480 to 720), the HDMI connection looks marginally better.