Distressed HDTV owner

[Meat and Oats]

I recently purchased the Westinghouse 37w3 1080p LCD monitor. The main reason I purchased the monitor was because of the ridiculous price.

Movies and games look great on this set, however, I am less than satisfied with the picture quality while watching television. For one it has zero overscan, thus even on some HD signals, there is some garbage around the perimeter of the image. Also, when I watch sports, there is always some blurring going on with the picture looking grainy. I have read that this monitor is not the best at deinterlacing a signal when to convert it to 1080p, thus causing some of the these blurring issues. I have also read that the incoming signal quality can vary between and within networks. Thus, I really dont know what to attribute the picture quality to...the monitor or the broadcast?

After all of that, I am not sure what to do with this set. I am thinking of returning it and saving my money for an actual TV rather than a monitor from a more well known brand. Can anyone offer some advice, either to what is more influential to television picture quality or whether I should start looking for another set?

Thanks.

 

[Mort Corey]

What is your source for watching movies and/or games that seems acceptable? Is your source for TV OTA, cable or dish? If your source for movies is DVD then I would guess that your TV problems are source related.

Mort

 

[audiorookie]

Get a Sony thats all i have to say about that.....

 

[kleinwl]

A westy monitor is a well known brand. While, Sony/Samsung/Sharp produce higher quality LCDs it is due more to the electronics than the panel. If you wish to overcome some of the issues with the westy invest in a scaler/receiver/HTPC that can upscale your signals.

Many people, who upgrade to HDTV notice the quality of their normal tv viewing has fallen. That's percisely because the 480i signal has to be interpolated to 720p (or whatever). Your monitor is best fed a "pure" 720p (or whatever) signal so a scaler that can feed that to your tv would be a boon.