Which Television is better for the $$$

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cool. I am still using a tube television set in my room. i'm cheap.
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Bay_Wolf wrote:Ok I have one more question about this tv. I have Dish Network, if I plug it in through the RF input will it stretch the picture to widescreen and make it look awful or what?

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Thats what we do on our widescreen, it still looks good. I can hardly tell the difference, stuff doesn't look unnaturally wide or anything and nothing is cut off/theres no empty space on the sides.
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Retromaster wrote:cool. I am still using a tube television set in my room. i'm cheap.
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lol your cool :lol: i guarentee almost all of my audio and video stuff in my room is older than you by at least 5 years, probably more like a decade
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cowsgoquack101 wrote:Yes it will, the TV doesn't have a tuner in it to make the broadcast look better. But that doesn't necessarily make it look terrible. But I don't know how picky you are.
When you say the TV doesn't have a tuner are you meaning a HDTV Tuner or standard tuner as the specs say it has a NTSC Tuner in it.

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Bay_Wolf wrote:
cowsgoquack101 wrote:Yes it will, the TV doesn't have a tuner in it to make the broadcast look better. But that doesn't necessarily make it look terrible. But I don't know how picky you are.
When you say the TV doesn't have a tuner are you meaning a HDTV Tuner or standard tuner as the specs say it has a NTSC Tuner in it.

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If he meant HD tuner, our widescreen just has a regular one, and, as I said, still looks good. Might be able to take a picture of Dish on it to should how the stuff looks when wide, my camera might be able to make it show up. Just say the word.
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Well I do think that it would be nice to see a picture of it. And when it says Tuner: NTSC under the connectivity in the specs does that mean a HD or Analog? I would assume it means analog but I'm not sure.

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Bay_Wolf wrote:Well I do think that it would be nice to see a picture of it. And when it says Tuner: NTSC under the connectivity in the specs does that mean a HD or Analog? I would assume it means analog but I'm not sure.

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If it doesn't say it's an HD tuner, I'd guess it's analog.
I'll try to take pictures when I get home (I'm grounded, so that makes it hard to get on the computer, I know the password though 8) ).
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Alright and Thanks.

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NTSC is analog, ATSC is High definition.
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Here you go. In order, 1 of the guide with flash, 1 without, 1 of Oprah (it was on, ok) with flash, 1 without. Stupid camera makes it look like crap, getting the scan line and making it grainy.
http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/9408/dscf0026ou6.jpg
http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/5126/dscf0027rt3.jpg
http://img106.imageshack.us/img106/1010/dscf0028cc1.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/3840/dscf0029ck8.jpg

I'll have you know I wasted 10 of my 60 minutes on the computer for you. :P
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Post by Bay_Wolf »

Ok thanks that clears up a lot of confusion.

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Post by Bay_Wolf »

Well I gave this much thought and my idea now is that either I will get the TV that I asked about in the first post or this new one here. If I get the one that I just mentioned it will take a little while longer to get since I have to wait until my birthday to get more money on the other hand this TV has HDMI input and is 20" instead of 19" and has a lot more good reviews. Which TV is better for the price is what I ask you?

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EDIT: Thanks for posting those pictures I just now noticed them. They help me out a lot and thanks for taking 10 minutes out of your time.
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