Sharp, Samsung or Sony - 40"

[rbombelli]

Hi,

I have been shopping for quite a bit and am looking at one of the following. Any suggestions? I am wondering if 120Hz is worth the extra $$

Samsung LNT4061
Samsung LNT4069
Sharp LC42D64U
Sony KDL40W300

Thanks

 

[MDS]

I didn't notice too much of a difference, if any, with the 120 Hz feature turned on with the Toshiba 52LX177 I owned briefly. It's nice to have the feature as long as it is defeatable. Like everthing else, it will work well for some content and not so much for others.

I personally wouldn't place too much emphasis on 120 Hz processing as a make or break decision point when choosing between different sets.

 

[rbombelli]

I should add

Thanks - I wanted to add that I will be using the TV mostly for watching TV, Movies, DVD etc. but eventually also to view stuff from my computer. Will this make a difference? Computer has hdmi output.

 

[jochie00]

Did you also consider LG?
I prefer the design of the Sharp and have a preference for its image quality too.

 

[skads_187]

those are good choices you have. Personally, forget about the 120hz and my first choice would be to get the sharp. (Second, Sony).

 

[bandphan]

check out the mitsu if you can

http://www.crutchfield.com/S-a4mK9GAZ2d6/App/Product/Item/Main.aspx?I=690LT46244

 

[Jack Hammer]

Samsung says that the motion plus, 120hz, is only for watching sports events and action ''scenes" in movies. With these uses it will help eliminate motion blur and what they call the 3 ball effect (kind of an image trailing). They told me leaving it on all the time is not what it was intended for and that in slower moving scenes it will actually cause motion blurring and other problems with the pq. Sounds like BS to me for 'our new technology doesn't work right'.

Jack

 

[rbombelli]

Looking like it's going to be the Sharp LC42D64U.

To be honest, I can't tell the difference when the 120Hz is 'turned on' on the Samsung LNT4069, and it costs $500 more than the Sharp. I like the look of the Sharp better as well.

I read something about new Blu Ray movies and 24Hz and "judder" - I don't even really get it so I am wondering - is this something to worry about if the Sharp is a 60 Hz model and not a 120 Hz?

Thanks again for all the replies.

rb

 

[skads_187]

Looking like it's going to be the Sharp LC42D64U.

Good choice, I think thats the one I am going to get as well, hopefully in the near future.

Also, if you can afford it maybe you can try going for the 52" one. Approx 500$ more here in Canada. Good luck

 

[jgw4]

I just got a Sony 40", 60 Hz. I noticed that many stores play Blu Ray on their highest end (most $$) TVs. I think this is a ploy to get people to think its the TV and not the Blu Ray. I made them put a Blu Ray feed into all TVs I was sampling (samsung, sony, LG) for a head to head comparison. It really cemented my decision for the Sony.

I read alot about the 120, most people turn it off after getting home.

 

[hemiram]

I seem to pick Sharp over the others, but it's not by a mile or anything. I had a couple of Sharp TVs in the past that lasted decades, along with 2 Mitsubishi's that stuck around forever too.


I recently went looking at TVs with a friend of mine, and we both liked the Sharp LC46XXX (Can't remember) slightly better than the Sony and a JVC panel next to it. He's very happy with it, as I am with my "tiny" LC37D40U I bought over a year and a half ago. Zero problems, and it still makes me happy when watch a really high quality program on it. Is it perfect? Nope, and I wish it was 42" or so, but I had to buy a TV, and it won against anything I compared it to at the time.

 

[skads_187]

I read alot about the 120, most people turn it off after getting home.

I was thinking the same thing, however, I am really considering the 120 Hz, not for movies though, but for watching tv. I have read that it really helps when watching sports, and I watch a lot of hockey and football.
So, my guess would be that once I get mine, i'd prob use 120 hz for tv and turn it off when watching movies, but I will try it a couple of times to see how it looks on movies.

 

[ardo]

Sony 52XBR4 with motionfow

Hi guys
The Sony 52XBR4, that I own , is always working in producing 120 hertz, so 120 pics per sec, and its called motionflow.With 24 frames per second of films, it is using the 3:2 sequence producing 5 frames instead of a single frame, so 24X5 = 120 frames per sec. Is it better than having none, sometimes yes, and sometimes no. One of the bad points of watching motionflow, is when you are watching foreign films, that are translated from another language. In that particular case, you clearly see, that the lips of the actors, do not match the tranlated text .This is not easily seen in regular 24 frames per secs, without motionflow . When motionflow is turn-off, the 5 frames usally produced are all the sames as the original, so 120 frames per second are produced. I can not comment how its working on the Sharp 52D64U, but I suspect it is similar.Would I live without motionflow ?, I do not really know, because 90% of the time, I leave it in standard mode, where I do not see artifacts, as some people reported. I watched, hockey games, and I can not see the puck trailing. In one instance, watching a tennis game, I saw trailing of the ball, but it was also trailing on my 27 inch XBR2 tube TV.

It took me a while before choosing that HDTV set, my first choice beeing on the Panasonic TH50-PZ700U, and I am perfectly happy with my choice. I had the chance to see on the same HD program the Panasonic TH50-PZ700, TH-50PZ77, Pionneer Elite 50 inch ?, Pionneer 5080HD, and the Sony 52XBR4. To conclude, there is no perfect technology, and new technologies will be appearing in the following years, that I am sure, will make better sets that the actual technologies, are providing.