I rarely watch a movie in cinema nowadays. It maybe because of different reasons:
1. There's no good movie to watch.
2. There's no time.
3. There's no budget (frugal me!)
But I really love watching movies. I remember when I was young, there's a program in RPN 9 (not even sure if this station still runs) every afternoon which shows the old movies (most of them are classics which are still in BW film).
When LCD TV was sold in the market, and looking at the pictures (especially the animated one), you'll appreciate the movie more. Actually I am a type of person who could watch the same movie (if listed as one of my fave) over and over again. Anyways, while looking at one SAMSUNG TV, I told myself "I'm gonna have one of those, at least a 32in should satisfy me!". Sad to say the LCD prices was so high that time so it took us 2 years before we can find a budget to have one. Finally, last 2009 we got our first LCD TV. It was LG, HD ready, 1 HDMI, etc. I really wanted to by FULL HD TV that time but the costs are beyond what we can afford.
We were so happy especially when you're opening the box and installing the TV. You know the feeling when you get a new stuff when you were a kid? hehehe! When we got this TV, we don't have anything to watch in HD. That's one thing Tv buyers should consider when buying TV. If you don't have HD players, your LCDs are nothing but a normal TV. So to maximize the potential, buy a DVD with HD upscaling at least!
So after buying the TV, after few months of window shopping and saving money, we decided to buy a Pioneer DVD player (K410), it has upscaling capacity to 1080p. Imagine that. You can watch your normal DVD into a High Def quality. But it does not work at all dvds.
I was really happy with our LG TV. The picture quality is really comparable to those full HD tv. I am a picture critic you can say. I am very sensitive in the picture quality, sharpness, contrast ratio, frame rate, clarity, etc. A lot of people around us really wanted to have a full HD TV. One of my friend who have a Sony Bravia (32" HD READY) was very eager to upgrade into full HD but selling your HD ready TV is a big loss of investment because people will buy on a very cheap price.
In my opinion, HD Ready TVs show the same picture quality as Full HD TV. I am very convince on that one. I have been looking around for the last 2 years observing what could be the difference but NOTHING.
This is what is also funny in this world. Once you bought one thing you need to buy MORE things. Like in this case, we bought LCD, we needed to buy a new DVD player. In order to get the best picture, you need to buy an HDMI cable. In addition to these things, a good sound system should suffice to mini-home theater project and of course HD movies so you have something to watch. Me and Victor sometimes laugh as we buy new things and telling each other (quoting from Solomon's verses in Proverbs) "chasing after the wind".
If you guys have questions if you are considering buying gadgets or how to set-up your home theater, just drop me a question.
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