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the culmination of over a month's research, 30 pages of print outs and 10 minutes showing it all to the stunned sales associate and manager...

I give you.. GIGANTOR...



it's taking a bit of tie getting it all put together, but did pop GT5: Prologue in... the suede on the driving gloves looked soft enough to touch!

Can't wait to do a movie/game night here now..

What am I suppost to be looking at? your collection of 1000 DVD's or the fact you grocery shop online via grocery gateway.com? or the Television set?

nerd

small tv. Go big next time. :D

meford4u,May 18 2008, 01:38 AM Wrote:small tv.  Go big next time. :D
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x2

55" FTW!

nice now you can see the pimples on the girls ass next time you watch porn

looks no bigger then mine..

you know though steve if you go to ikea and pick up a billy bookcase and two extra shelves it will hold all your dvds in that unit.

but congrats on getting your new tv, you'll love gamming on it.

Frost__2001,May 18 2008, 09:37 AM Wrote:but congrats on getting your new tv, you'll love gaming on it.
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It should improve your sniping skills, it did mine!

Congrats!

Congrats...
Every man deserves a big ass TV in their living room :)

DD1,May 18 2008, 08:36 AM Wrote:nice now you can see the pimples on the girls ass next time you watch porn
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Do they have porn in HD yet?

Canadian ST,May 19 2008, 12:52 AM Wrote:

DD1,May 18 2008, 08:36 AM Wrote:nice now you can see the pimples on the girls ass next time you watch porn
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Do they have porn in HD yet?
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Weren't they the first to embrace HD.

What model is that? Looks identical to mine, I have the 5265F. They are sweet ass TV's!

Love it.
Same as mine.

Where did you end up getting it in the end?

It's the 52A550, so it's not a 6-series (as your model number would indicate) ashabib, but it's the newest 5 series available to my knowledge.

5ms panel @ 60Hz, 30,000:1 dynamic contrast (looks like about 2,000:1 true to me)...

It's a very nice TV... and at this size, I can noticeably discern between 720p and 1080p ... and I gotta say.. 1080p sources are amazing.

The saddest part right now is that I'm waiting for my Rogers HD box to arrive, and standard def sources are pretty chunky looking.

Where this TV shines is playing games... true digital sources look amazing on this thing... and if you're a PS3 owner, playing Super Startdust HD, or the Pixel Junk games from the PSN are true examples of sharp looking games.

I would group Gran Tourismo in there as well, but they have some poorly rendered shadows that become too evident at those resolutions...

And then when you hit 720p... I've found new love for Warhawk. though I got my ass handed to me lastnight (taking a month off doesn't help hone one's skills apparently).

I wish cellphone pics could do this thing justice...

Looks sexy Steveo! I want one!

darkpuppet,May 20 2008, 10:00 AM Wrote:It's the 52A550, so it's not a 6-series (as your model number would indicate) ashabib, but it's the newest 5 series available to my knowledge.

5ms panel @ 60Hz, 30,000:1 dynamic contrast (looks like about 2,000:1 true to me)...

It's a very nice TV... and at this size, I can noticeably discern between 720p and 1080p ... and I gotta say.. 1080p sources are amazing.

The saddest part right now is that I'm waiting for my Rogers HD box to arrive, and standard def sources are pretty chunky looking.

Where this TV shines is playing games... true digital sources look amazing on this thing... and if you're a PS3 owner, playing Super Startdust HD, or the Pixel Junk games from the PSN are true examples of sharp looking games.

I would group Gran Tourismo in there as well, but they have some poorly rendered shadows that become too evident at those resolutions...

And then when you hit 720p... I've found new love for Warhawk.  though I got my ass handed to me lastnight (taking a month off doesn't help hone one's skills apparently).

I wish cellphone pics could do this thing justice...


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That was going to be one of my questions? Can you tell the difference between 720p and 1080p? How much did that set you back?

So is surround next?

That's a very nice TV. My friend has the exact same in 47'
Lets just say COD4 was never the same after that. Nice stuff.

Canadian ST,May 20 2008, 04:01 PM Wrote:That was going to be one of my questions? Can you tell the difference between 720p and 1080p? How much did that set you back?

So is surround next?
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You can definitely see the difference in resolutions from the 10-15 feet I sit away from the TV...

You can get the TV for just a tick over 2G if you haggle a bit.

There's surround -- it's nothing too spectacular, but it does the job for now. You can see the center channel peaking underneath from behind the tv stand.

Nice toy there ;)

Have you tried any Blu Ray movies yet on it? That I think is the true test, because Rogers, even at their HD best is only a mere shadow of what a properly rendered Blu Ray disk should be.

NefCanuck

NefCanuck,May 20 2008, 04:29 PM Wrote:Nice toy there ;)

Have you tried any Blu Ray movies yet on it?  That I think is the true test, because Rogers, even at their HD best is only a mere shadow of what a properly rendered Blu Ray disk should be.

NefCanuck
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you definitely notice a difference between BD and DVD. I own I am Legend, Spiderman 3, 300, and superbad on BD... and they look extremely sharp and detailed for film-based movies... and there are a lot fewer compression artifacts.

What is mind boggingly beautiful are the purely digital movies -- or in this case, movie trailer for Wall-e .. now THAT is impressive.