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5.0 stars
"Great price, Superb Picture! Excellent for Media Center!"
Pros: High native 1080p resolution, 2 DVI inputs, Bright Display
Cons: Blacks don't compare to Plasma, No NTSC or ATSC tuner
Summary: Well I have been through my fair share of budget LCD's and Plasma's and this is going to be my favorite for clarity. First off I started with a Sanyo EDTV 20" LCD, Then a Sceptre 30" LCD HDTV, Then to a 42" ByD:sign Plasma, and now the 37" Westinghouse 1080p LCD.
Compared to the plasma (1280x768, 3000:1 contrast, 1000cd/m3 brightness) it doesn't have as good of blacks (due to the lower contrast ratio) or as high of a brightness. This TV is plenty bright though, don't get me wrong. I picked the LCD up at a Local BestBuy for $1899 (Open Boxed) to replace the plasma because I was going to use it with a Windows Media Center PC and am afraid to put it on the plasma due to burn-in. I thought this TV would be perfect because you dont have to pay for an expensive ATSC/NTSC tuner built-in (Media center has both of them with PVR functionality) and it had a very high resolution with no burn-in. Best buy was only running a 720p signal to the monitor through component cables which did not do it justice. If you have yet to see a 1080p television working to its full potential, you haven't seen HD!
Overall I rate the television VERY high, mainly because of the superclear picture. I have used nothing other than the DVI input, but 1080p content looks AMAZING (Windows Media's webpage has the Batman trailer in 1080p) and now I do not have to worry about if I leave the TV on with the media center home screen on.
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I am interesting in purchasing this HD Monitor for MCE, and have read a large number of reviews complaining about picture quality for Standard TV. Have you tried SD via and how does it look?
I believe that all processing is done on the MCE PC therefore is should circumvent the poor Westinghouse processing; any additional comments/confirmation about this would be helpful.
