Zenith 44" LCD Questions

[abmoyer]

I just got the zenith 44" lcd. Dvd looks great and HD is coming tomarrow and i know it will look good. Problem i have is standard cable and my replay tv. Got some video noise from my crappy electric and stuff. Im considering getting the zenith 42" ED plasma. Figure the contrast gonna run around the same so HD cable box will look fine. Im thinking that my replay tv and standard cable will look a little cripser than the lcd. Any of you ED plasma owners please post what ya think of them. Thanks for the assistance

[Ray H]

Indulge my confusion, but have you actually established a reception/display problem or are you contemplating jumping ship before you've had a chance to observe an HD feed on your new LCD projection set in anticipation of a theoretical problem?

[armentage]

Assuming you have the Zenith 44" LCD RPTV?

Take the TV back. It's a piece of garbage. I tried for 6 weeks to clean up the picture before giving up on it. Many readers of this forum had similar experiences.

I know it looks pretty damn good, especially when you're just upgrading from low-def CRT tvs, but it really isn't worth the money or the trouble.

Just wait till you start noticing how green everything is...

I'm guessing you bought it at BestBuy? They have a great return policy on those pieces of junk...

[jamis]

We've had no issues with our Zenith 44" LCD RP... ours looks great after we tweaked the color/tint settings.

[RickP978]

I am also very satisfied with my Zenith set. Now if Charter would only get out here and get my HDTV installed.

Rick

[Andreole]

I've been very satisfied as well. Have had the set since Nov. 2. I hear the complaints of others, but they don't apply to me. The exception is the screen door affect which would be true of all rear proj. lcd displays. Watched part of the Superbowl on a Panasonic plasma that cost more than twice what I paid for the Zenith. It may have been just a tad sharper, but not that much. I still maintain that with the Zenith, though not a perfect tv, you get the most bang for your buck.

[Ray H]

These sets are definitely not junk. It did take me the better part of two weeks to get the picture dialed in to my preferences, though. (After all that, I had sense enough to write the settings down on a 3X5 card for future reference! :)) As for "screen door effect", if you see it, you're too darned close! These are, after all, 1320x720p native resolution. 10' or farther works.

[armentage]

These sets are definitely not junk. It did take me the better part of two weeks to get the picture dialed in to my preferences, though. (After all that, I had sense enough to write the settings down on a 3X5 card for future reference! :)) As for "screen door effect", if you see it, you're too darned close! These are, after all, 1320x720p native resolution. 10' or farther works.

Check the older posts in this sub-forum. We spent a month collaborating on the PQ problems, and our efforts bore no fruit. The picture always had a green cast, and no amount of fiddling with the regular picture settings or the service menu could correct it (without introducing a blue cast or red cast!)

Maybe they've upgraded the firmware on the sets to correct the problem, but back in October they weren't worth keeping.

BTW its 1280 pixels across, not 1320.

[Dave Bunch]

Hello all;

I just purchased The LG RU44SZ80L which is as far as I know the same thing as the Zenith 44" LCD RPTV.

I am fairly new to HDTV and big screen in general. I keep hearing a lot about green hue and bad black levels on LCDs. I would like to make some observations on both.

I have watched about a half dozen DVD movies, and to my eye, the picture is incredible with all of them. No green haze and no black level problems bad enough to notice. I have watched many LCDs and DLPs together in the stores and I admit I can see slightly deeper blacks in the DLPs but it is close. I thought that the LCDs had truer colors and a bit better resolution.

However, back to the green haze. I have cable, but am changing to dish tomorrow. The local network channels are the worst. My wife was watching "Judging Amy" and there was a terrible green haze and the grays were washed out and two dimensional. Overall terrible picture. But do I blame the TV when DVDs are great? Most of the other cable channels are great. Even the commercials during this terrible braoadcast were great. At least in my case, isn't the problem the signal and not the TV?

I am hoping that Dish solves some of these problems. Would anyone like to respond to these observations? Any input would be appreciated.

Dave

[armentage]

Hello all;


However, back to the green haze. I have cable, but am changing to dish tomorrow. The local network channels are the worst. My wife was watching "Judging Amy" and there was a terrible green haze and the grays were washed out and two dimensional. Overall terrible picture. But do I blame the TV when DVDs are great? Most of the other cable channels are great. Even the commercials during this terrible braoadcast were great. At least in my case, isn't the problem the signal and not the TV?

I am hoping that Dish solves some of these problems. Would anyone like to respond to these observations? Any input would be appreciated.

Dave

I remember watching Raiders of the Lost Arc on DVD with my Zenith 44, and being totally disgusted by all the green haze... I tried like crazy to get rid of it. The constrast was also really poor, so some scenes were almost unwatchable.

I really noticed the green in a big way while I was watching high res content... maybe its a resolution thing? SDTV was never too bad, but it would drive me nuts in HDTV broadcasts. I remember watching DiscoveryHD.. it was an outdoor program, and all the green grass seemed to be GLOWING!

[elron]

Does anybody have a list of T.V's that have an output for a subwoofer?