It depends. I am sure Utgayan wants you to go to 4k since he has already stated 720p isn't good enough for his poor children's eyes. You are also going to need to upgrade to THX certified sound because Dolby just aint good enough.
Wow.
Times have changed my friend.
I'm sure that's a perfectly fine television, but quoting manufacturer contrast ratios is 100% worthless. Every company measures them differently and you can't compare them whatsoever across different brands. It might be a useful stat when comparing one Samsung vs another Samsung(for example), but that's about it. Contrast ratios are generally just a large arbitrary number that a company can throw on their stat sheet to "wow" uninformed customers that don't have any idea how to actually compare products.
The contrast ratio for one is measured Dynamically, which is pretty much made-up by the manufacturer.... Native contrast ("real contrast" is what matters) of Plasmas DEMOLISH any LED/LCD in terms of native (we are talking 2000:1 on a LED compared to 100,000:1+ on Plasma). Aside from other things such as how well the TV handles motion (120Hz is a gimmick), Plasma's are the BEST by far in terms of how well the TV refreshes. So basically, Plasma's still to this day demolish any LED/LCD on the market aside from maybe a $7k Sharp Elite.
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The dynamic ratio is about 5:1 compared to native. (Not anwhere close to your magical 20x ratio there you just posted) And most "motion handlers" on any screen get turned off in about 5 seconds once people see how poor the quality of the frames are. Especially in the Plasma model that Sean quoted out in a link. Either way, contrast ratio means jack if the black levels aren't hovering around 100 CD/M In which the most cause for LED's have been pushed. You and Sean both may have made a point back in 2003. Times and technology gaps have changed and in no way, shape or form is there a dramatic difference between the two.
Lets agree to disagree. I can pull up the reviews on the LED's saying the same things in reverse depending on the site. One thing the LED reviews do not have are the countless compaints of image retention/burn in lasting for weeks at a time, and sometimes never going away. Pixel shift was supposed to help with this, but it isn't doing any good. (I am going by user reviews)
Last year when we moved I made sure we bought a house with an unfinished basement. I'd always wanted a real home theater room and I wanted to do it all myself. I spent the last year working on it, framing, electric, insulation, everything.
Nice looking room! That's really the only thing that makes me consider moving out of my condo and in to a house, is the ability to a) have a home theater room and b) actually be able to let my Klipsch RF-1's really stretch their legs without pissing off 40+ people.
Nice theater!
It is a google nexus tablet running some apps to control stuff. One is called Touchsquid and that controls lighting and the receiver, another is the official xbmc remote, then there is some honeywell stuff for HVAC. I completely soundproofed the room so I can crank it up and not bother my wife and kids. The gear is all in a separate server room due to heat issues. All speakers are hidden, the two subs are commercial jobs from a company called Danley. They are similar to what would be in an Imax theater. I have them sitting on a center stage that I filled with 1600 pounds of sand to deaden any resonance. I never did total out the whole budget so I'm not too sure. I pretty much spent every extra dollar from every pay check for an entire year.
