How well do HDTV set handle NTSC

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Do current vintage HDTV sets display NTSC content well? In other words
would NTSC video look as good on a HDTV set as it does on my 32" Sony CRT?

One technology better than the other in this regard?
Any manufacturers to avoid?

I'm interested in either LCD or DLP RPTV.

Thanks

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How long is a piece of string?

Way too vague a question to receive a meaningful reply.


"Mack McKinnon" <MckinnonRemoveThis@tvadmanDeleteThisAsWell.com> wrote in
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> "Bishoop" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message
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>> Do current vintage HDTV sets display NTSC content well? In other words
>> would NTSC video look as good on a HDTV set as it does on my 32" Sony
>> CRT?
>
> Probably not. I have both -- a 32" Sony CRT and a 60" Sony LCD RP HDTV.
> NTSC pictures look better on the 32". But that does not mean that I am
> very
> likely to haul the 32" out of the guest room to replace the big HD set.
> Life is trade-offs and this is one trade-off I am more than willing to
> make.
>
> I have discovered that using CableCard instead of an HDTV cable box
> improves
> the NTSC pictures tremendously. Before I got the CC, I would sometimes
> use
> the tuner in my Panasonic DVD/DVR and send the picture to the TV in 480p.
> Now, if an NTSC picture is really bad, I sometimes use the big Sony's
> "twin-view" feature to reduce the size of the picture to about 32"
> diagonally. It looks fine at that size. (Just tune the other picture to
> a
> black channel if you don't want it sitting there.)
>
> The problem, I think, is that the HDTV emphasizes all the little
> imperfections in the picture. Therefore, there is a huge difference in
> the
> reproduction of different NTSC signals, from terrible to pretty good,
> depending on the quality of the original signal.
>
> mack
> austin
>
>

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"Bishoop" <none@none.invalid> wrote in message news:<v4-dnaTasrVGYRDcRVn-ow@giganews.com>...
> Do current vintage HDTV sets display NTSC content well? In other words
> would NTSC video look as good on a HDTV set as it does on my 32" Sony CRT?
>
> One technology better than the other in this regard?
> Any manufacturers to avoid?

Samsung TVs, though cheap, are about the only ones that I've seen
which can display standard-def content that looks half as good as it
does on a non-HD TV. On most HDTVs, old content looks fairly awful.