Plasma 720 or 1080

[lincolndog]

Decided on a plasma. Now next question. Will blue-ray and PS3 games look great on 760. Sales people always say 1080 but the price is so much more. I thought I would ask the individuals that have a 760. Can you see the difference? Do you regret buying the smaller version? Games and movies still awesome?

I found a decent price on a 50 inch panasonic 760 but don't want to regret it.

[len_mullen]

Decided on a plasma. Now next question. Will blue-ray and PS3 games look great on 760. Sales people always say 1080 but the price is so much more. I thought I would ask the individuals that have a 760. Can you see the difference? Do you regret buying the smaller version? Games and movies still awesome?

I found a decent price on a 50 inch panasonic 760 but don't want to regret it.

They will look AWESOME on a 720p. In my living room, we sit between six and twelve feet from the TV. In Santa's Workshop, I am only about five feet from my 50" plasma. PS3 games and especially blu-ray media are spectacular. Using this chart, you can judge how much impact 1080p will have in your living room, but I still recommend you visit stores and stand back the distance you will be viewing from.

 

I should mention that, except for blu-ray (dish network is another story), nothing you watch will be better than 720p (768 lines of resolution). Chances are the upscaled video will look WORSE at 1080p than the native 768 line presentation.

[tokanm]

We have a big screen Vizio that we got last year. LOVE IT!!!

Anyways when the Direct TV installer came in..he said the the 760 works better

with most shows, movies, video games etc. I am not sure if he is right..but that is what

he told me. The picture clarity is amazing and we have the 760 dpi tv.

 

Good Luck

[patandjenny]

They will look AWESOME on a 720p. In my living room, we sit between six and twelve feet from the TV. In Santa's Workshop, I am only about five feet from my 50" plasma. PS3 games and especially blu-ray media are spectacular. Using this chart, you can judge how much impact 1080p will have in your living room, but I still recommend you visit stores and stand back the distance you will be viewing from.

 

I should mention that, except for blu-ray (dish network is another story), nothing you watch will be better than 720p (768 lines of resolution). Chances are the upscaled video will look WORSE at 1080p than the native 768 line presentation.

We have dish network... I saw that you mentioned that "it is another story"... what do you mean?

[len_mullen]

We have dish network... I saw that you mentioned that "it is another story"... what do you mean?

Dish promotes 'true hd' or 1080p. Problem is that there is little 1080p source for them to rebroadcast. Some people claim the additional compression required to get all those channels to your receiver actually degrades image quality.

 

Not really dumping on Dish -- just skeptical that there will be sufficient 1080p content to cause me to spend extra on a 1080p tv at this time. I waited this long to get HDTV because most of what I watched was SDTV and that did not look good at 720p. Now that 720p is mainstream, I jumped in. Blu-ray looks great at 720p, but even if it didn't, my ps3 is playing 720p games and my provider is pushing 720p content.

 

If that makes sense. Save the difference and get a 1080p when the mainstream is 1080p. You'll have a better set in your living room then and a very nice tv in your bedroom.