I'm thinking of getting a small/medium sized lcd tv 44-56 cm to replace my very big 70cm/28" widescreen which is taking up a hughe ammount of space and uses more power then an average 3rd world country and produces so much heat i can cook in my room after 2 hours of gaming. My problem is how is ghosting on the cheaper smaller sets i'm talking in the range of 500-800 euro's. I know the bigger ones don't have any porblem because our 26" LCD in the living room plays games just fine. Does anybody here have experience with lcd tv's in my pricing range if so please let me know.
You might get away with the 24" dell widescreen monitor when they have some sort of sale. I just got 2 20.1" widescreen monitors for £780 on a sale. Anyways their tv has enough resolution for 1080i, component, svideo, composit in plus DVI. I know its not a tv but for games and films and other things its pretty decent.
Do you play old games much? If so, keep that CRT tube around... old school 2D games that don't upscale their sprites tend to look like gigantic turds.
heh I don't think he is worried about large sprites since he is moving down in size. I have a 23' Panasonic LCD and games look fantastic on it, I play a lot of Burnout 3 and the colours are amazingly bright and vibrant. I also play a lot of shooters and have seen no ghosting. Actually thats a lie when I first bought the set I was using composite cables for my DVD player (mostly to see what kind of differance using my better cables would make) and I got a lot of ghosting on movies then but now the picture is crisp for the same scenes. I got the set on a 50% off sale about a year ago but now I think the rrp is simular to what I paid - about a thousand pounds. Only thing is it isn't high def.
I use a TFT (it'S just like LCD I guess) and I've never had any problems with it. I do run everything through VGA on it though. I even watch TV on it. The picture is far better than my CRT TV but I put that down to the filters on the TV Tunner Yakumo
I have a Samsung 15in widescreen one......can`t see much on this picture and sorry for the size of the picture as in the office at the moment Sorry default picture from Samsung..........virtually identical Plays well....has picture in picture for pc + tv....scart socket.....pretty pleased with it
LCDs can be a bit naff for gaming, best to test out your systems w/ each specific model you are interested in BEFORE buying. For example, my friend's 30 inch samsung looks like absolute balls (jag-arriffic, horrible blurring), but my 17 inch Dell looks fine. And I was using A/V to the Dell and Component to the Samsung.
I've been over town dragging a ps-two along asking stores if i could test them..most didn't mind but i was shocked to see the all look utter crap over A/V and S-video ghosting/jagged edges etc all over the place only ones that didn't were the high end 1500+ euro ones which i can't afford. Guess i'll just keep my tv for now and wait until LCD tv's evolve a little further.
If you really want the best of both worlds for LCD gaming, there's really only one way I see it possible (and even this is dodgy). Make sure it's got VGA or DVI in.... basically something that can work as a monitor. Use component for Xbox/GC stuff, and S-Video cables for PS2. For low-res games (for simplicities sake, we'll say 2D stuff) use an XRGB2. It's a 'fake' solution. Basically doublescans everything, but you can produce fake scanlines which will simulate low res better than any Plasmas or LCD can. It will look better than playing a truly low-res game on an LCD. Trust me.
That's just it SilverBolt, if you want a good LCD screen for games then you will have to pay an awful lot of cash. Like I said before, mine is pretty much perfect for gaming. I even used it for Retro Core when I'd stick the camera in front of the screen. Cheap LCD screens look arse for gaming as you've found out. Best stick with CRT for now until you win the lottery or something Yakumo
