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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
bigos @ Dec 26th 2005 4:25AM
"Given the (comparatively) very cheap price of the Sceptre 37" and the Westinghouse 37" which do, in fact, accept and display 1080p, I don't understand what all the whining from manufacturers is about, what with respect to added cost to sets or any other argument."
To be fair, the Westinghouse 37 incher is not regarded as having great processing, which is probably why it is so inexpensive. That is not a such a concern when you are outputting a clean digital 1080p signal from your computer. The Westy 37 basically operates best as purely a monitor. If you give it a good signal it will look great. If you give it a bad signal it will look bad, just like a computer monitor. The thing that many of todays HDTV's have though is a built in processor, which computer monitors don't have, and this processor can take a crappy analog input and upsample it for a 1080p output. The Westy 37 does this but not very well. I think Philips is arguing that it is not worth it to put a great upsampling processor in their TV's, but why they don't let you put in your own 1080p signal is baffling.
By the way Westinghouse has recently partnered with Genesis Microchip and will be putting DCDi Faroudja processors in their 1080p 37 inch and announced 42 inch LCD's. The 42 incher should be out around the first of the year. If it is priced reasonably I think it may be the best value for a 1080p set.