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badval:

--- Quote ---....I think I will call my sales person at Dell and talk the whole thing over with him. It is nice that Dell gives you one agent to deal with. I didn't even think of the HDTV implications and the limitations that the tuner card would have...
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Better hurry - sometimes systems ship a lot sooner than they tell you they will :)

You might want to stop in a Best Buy or Circuit City & have a look at all the different TVs.  It's very confusing, esp w/ all the choices & different technology - LCD, Plasma, HD, ED, DLP, rear projection, front projection, blah, blah, blah.....  Look at their different models & compare the picture of different types & sizes.  Also, make sure you look at video from a standard (non-HD) broadcast as well as DVD & HD source.  They will all look good in HD, but you will find some look worse than a regular old TV for standard broadcast stuff.  That was the mistake I made when I bought my JVC projection model.  It's picture is incredible in HDTV, good for DVDs, & disgusting for regular TV broadcasts.  Our cable only has about a dozen HD channels - so the other zillion are regular format.  That's why I'm so happy w/ the plasma I bought.  Regular broadcast TV looks fantastic on it.  It does gray or black out the sides to get the 4:3 ratio.  Or you can have it expand it to fill the screen which does "squash" everything a bit, but the quality of the picture is still outstanding

I saw the Vizio TVs at Sam's Club yesterday.  First time I saw them.  The picture quality looked every bit as good (or better) than their other brands & the prices were very reasonable.  Of course that was from a HD signal & no telling what other formats will look like, but worth checking out.

drewstar:

--- Quote ---....I'll deal with the TV later when the EAgles are in the play offs!  ;D ;D...I
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Hubbby aint ever gonna get his new tv.  ;D ;) :D ;D

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