Analogue or Digital Widescreen TV?

[ZX81]

Help please, there seems to be a lot of good deals around at the moment. Also lots of recommendations on these forums for Widescreen TV.

The cheapest Digital Widescreens start at £1000. My question is do you get significant improvement in picture quality for this extra dosh? Or are you paying extra purely for a digital tuner?

If I watched my DVD through a brand new analogue widescreen and then through one of these digi jobs would the picture be better?

thanks in advance
ZX81

[Greenstead]

What do you mean digital widescreen. No such thing. All tellies are analogue.

A digital telly has a digital decoder in it. Waste of money.

The anwser to your question is no.

Get a widescreen nicam (what you call analogue) telly with 2 AV, better 3 AV inputs, minimum 32", 36" better. Get a separate digital decoder box - subscribe to cable or sky. Connect em up.

The quality of the signal you receive is the key - analogue (thro your ariel) or digital thro the digital box - if its poor input its poor output. Then you get good quality tv (well picture wise, the content is the same old crap).

So your question should be :
Whats the current best value 32 (or 36) widescreen non-digital nicam telly and where can I get it?

Of course there are other non-crt solutions (RPT or projection) others will recommend.

Whats the answer. Sorry, no idea.


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[ZX81]

Thats the answer then. I wasn't sure if there was anything else that a digital set had over what I called Analogue - a standard set.

So your telly me people like sony are charging upwards for £400 over their standard models purley for an integrated digital tuner.

Thanks for the advice, I'm off to get a widescreen. Fancy the JVC recommended on another thread last week.

ZX81