Question about LCD TV's

[Don Carlos]

Can you use your PS2 and xbox with them?

I always thought you could, but my mate bought on the
other day and the bloke said if you use any console on
this, it will fuck the TV up?!?!?

Whats all that about?

[Psyche911]

I haven't heard of consoles fucking them up, and can't imagine why they would.

You should be fine as long as you use the right ports. Maybe somebody tried to use composite in the component jacks or something? Can't imagine why anyone would try that though...

[Don Carlos]

I thought it sounded strange...i bet the bloke in the place he bought it was a moron

[Canis]

I'd expect they'd just have a standard coaxial or RCA output that would go right into the input of the TV. As long as the standards are adhered to, everything should be fine...

[rep]

Works fine here. DOOM 3 especially. *Everything runs over DVI. It all connects to my media PC and then gets output to the widescreen.

Make sure you buy an HDTV receiver/converter, otherwise it'll look like absolute fucking garbage. I mean it.

[+JuggerNaut+]

besides LCD's inherent poor black levels, you can most certainly use any console on one.

[rep]

They're no big deal here. I'm definitely upgrading to OLED as soon as they hit the US market, but certainly not with the contrast ratio as the only reason.

[+JuggerNaut+]

They're no big deal here. I'm definitely upgrading to OLED as soon as they hit the US market, but certainly not with the contrast ratio as the only reason.

what's no big deal here.

[rep]

The black levels. I've only noticed it when I was watching Carnivàle one time, but never again.

Quick fact: Most electronic stores, during a sales period for a particular HDTV monitor, will bait and switch customers by putting that particular monitor on bad settings, usually by messing with the tint levels, color temperature, and putting it on some awful stretch aspect ratio and hiding the remote so you have to change it all back using the on-set controls, if it has them. Sometimes they put them on an SDTV feed.

Then, they put the one they really want to sell, the model two levels higher than that, on the best settings possible with a digital or HD video feed.

If you're looking for a TV, always default everything to factory settings. You'll be surprised how many are fucked up intentionally.

[+JuggerNaut+]

The black levels. I've only noticed it when I was watching Carnivàle one time, but never again.

Quick fact: Most electronic stores, during a sales period for a particular HDTV monitor, will bait and switch customers by putting that particular monitor on bad settings, usually by messing with the tint levels, color temperature, and putting it on some awful stretch aspect ratio and hiding the remote so you have to change it all back using the on-set controls, if it has them. Sometimes they put them on an SDTV feed.

Then, they put the one they really want to sell, the model two levels higher than that, on the best settings possible with a digital or HD video feed.

If you're looking for a TV, always default everything to factory settings. You'll be surprised how many are fucked up intentionally.

i don't agree with that.

most brick and mortars hardly TOUCH settings on a set. why? because they come juiced from the factory (contrast and brightness insanely high, colors blooming), so when consumers see them, they're "wow'd" by how bright and overlysaturated the picture is. you know and i know that most consumers have NO idea what the picture SHOULD look like or even how to go about setting it up that way. it's funny that they're used to their home sets looking like this, but they don't complain about such things at the theater.

[AmIdYfReAk]

Down Juggs! DOWN BOI!

rep, i suggest you run, you tuched a nerve.

[+JuggerNaut+]

Down Juggs! DOWN BOI!

rep, i suggest you run, you tuched a nerve.

wut teh h3L?

[rep]

Down Juggs! DOWN BOI!

rep, i suggest you run, you tuched a nerve.

Shut up you fucking virgin.

I used to work in a store that sells these things, and I knew every competitor within a 15 mile area. We were all screwing with the settings in the exact way I described.

[o'dium]

Going back to "cna i use consoles on my tv" thang. Yes, you can.

Its exactly the same as a LCD monitor. The only reason that they say this is because a lot of people tend ot pause the game for hours on end, or leave it on a static screen. As long as your not a complete retard and leve your TV on ALL FUCKING DAY on the same screen, your golden.

[Geebs]

It's projection TVs you have to be careful with, not LCDs.

[Dek]

and projection lcd's..

[plained]

The black levels. I've only noticed it when I was watching Carnivàle one time, but never again.

Quick fact: Most electronic stores, during a sales period for a particular HDTV monitor, will bait and switch customers by putting that particular monitor on bad settings, usually by messing with the tint levels, color temperature, and putting it on some awful stretch aspect ratio and hiding the remote so you have to change it all back using the on-set controls, if it has them. Sometimes they put them on an SDTV feed.

Then, they put the one they really want to sell, the model two levels higher than that, on the best settings possible with a digital or HD video feed.

If you're looking for a TV, always default everything to factory settings. You'll be surprised how many are fucked up intentionally.

i don't agree with that.

most brick and mortars hardly TOUCH settings on a set. why? because they come juiced from the factory (contrast and brightness insanely high, colors blooming), so when consumers see them, they're "wow'd" by how bright and overlysaturated the picture is. you know and i know that most consumers have NO idea what the picture SHOULD look like or even how to go about setting it up that way. it's funny that they're used to their home sets looking like this, but they don't complain about such things at the theater.

also we cant forget the horrific default shapening

[+JuggerNaut+]

Down Juggs! DOWN BOI!

rep, i suggest you run, you tuched a nerve.

Shut up you fucking virgin.

I used to work in a store that sells these things, and I knew every competitor within a 15 mile area. We were all screwing with the settings in the exact way I described.

my ex g/f worked at best buy and i know a guy that works at jerry's audio/video that's told me what i described. either way, the settings you get to see at the store are so far from correct, it's sickening.

[+JuggerNaut+]

The black levels. I've only noticed it when I was watching Carnivàle one time, but never again.

Quick fact: Most electronic stores, during a sales period for a particular HDTV monitor, will bait and switch customers by putting that particular monitor on bad settings, usually by messing with the tint levels, color temperature, and putting it on some awful stretch aspect ratio and hiding the remote so you have to change it all back using the on-set controls, if it has them. Sometimes they put them on an SDTV feed.

Then, they put the one they really want to sell, the model two levels higher than that, on the best settings possible with a digital or HD video feed.

If you're looking for a TV, always default everything to factory settings. You'll be surprised how many are fucked up intentionally.

i don't agree with that.

most brick and mortars hardly TOUCH settings on a set. why? because they come juiced from the factory (contrast and brightness insanely high, colors blooming), so when consumers see them, they're "wow'd" by how bright and overlysaturated the picture is. you know and i know that most consumers have NO idea what the picture SHOULD look like or even how to go about setting it up that way. it's funny that they're used to their home sets looking like this, but they don't complain about such things at the theater.

also we cant forget the horrific default shapening

heh, yeah. i love when people think that "function" actually does something good and crank it way up.

[+JuggerNaut+]

and projection lcd's..

yep. usually when i talk tv's, i'm not talking about the kind you fit in your room, kids. i forget that most of Q3W still lives in their bedrooms.