Any experience comments on Sharp LC46XD1E

I've got a 37XD1E, the 46 has a faster response time (4ms - against 6ms on the smaller panels).
Prior to buying mine I'd seen both running (properly set up), and to be honest I can't find anything about it that I don't like - at ALL.

That'll be why I bought one

Internal scaler is very good when taking the component feed from my n-Vi.

If there's one thing that might irk me it's the fact that HDMI doesn't allow you to change aspect ratios.

If I were on Sky HD that'd bother me because the Sky box sends 4:3 images to the set stretched out to 16:9 and everyone's the wrong shape.
Mind you, some people set up their TV's to do that anyway(??!!??).
As I'm on Telewest my TVDrive offers 720P/ 720P Wide / 1080i / 1080i Wide.

The wide settings do as per sky, the others show each programme in it's true aspect ratio - which I prefer.

In fact the only bugbear in my setup is that my TVDrive scales ALL programmes to either 720P or 1080i rather than feeding images in the broadcast resolution and allowing the excellent scaler in the XD1 to do the job.

Hopefully Telewest will add an Auto option in the future - in the meantime I've set my TVDrive to output 1080i and am happy with what this offers me on both HD and SD viewing - CSI on five looks astonishing!

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Originally posted by Mike1380:
In fact the only bugbear in my setup is that my TVDrive scales ALL programmes to either 720P or 1080i rather than feeding images in the broadcast resolution and allowing the excellent scaler in the XD1 to do the job.

Are you sure that's a real bugbear Mike?

I also have TV Drive and run it into a 720p projector.

I'm not sure what the res is on your screen but 720p is obviously the native res for my projector so I think there's some advantage there. All the SD broadcasts through the HDMI output at 720p look much better than they do through the analogue connections.

regards
Jay

It's not massive - but I'd prefer that telewest gave me the option between the scaler built into the TVDrive and the one on my set.

As I said, it does a fantastic job with the component feed from my n-Vi - so good that watching Fantastic 4 two days ago I had to remind myself that I wasn't watching HD!!!

Jay, it sounds like (and I could be wrong) the scaler in your TVDrive outperforms the one in your projector - doesn't matter really, as long as one way or the other you get a great image

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Originally posted by Mike1380:
Jay, it sounds like (and I could be wrong) the scaler in your TVDrive outperforms the one in your projector - doesn't matter really, as long as one way or the other you get a great image

You might be right. There's a few links in the chain isn't there.

I've always been told to supply the native res of the lcd panel for best picture, if you can. I have tried the 1080i from the TVDrive, which the projector supports, but it doesn't look anywhere near as good.

Cheers
J

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Originally posted by me!
If there's one thing that might irk me it's the fact that HDMI doesn't allow you to change aspect ratios.

If I were on Sky HD that'd bother me because the Sky box sends 4:3 images to the set stretched out to 16:9 and everyone's the wrong shape.

Turns out there's a way round this -

Set a Sky HD box HD Output resolution to AUTO.

This outputs SD as 576i/p, and either HD at native res (usually 1080i).
The XD1 screens only disable screen format override on 720P or 1080i signals.
You can now set auto format override and watch 4:3 SD images in their true format!

Of course my TVDrive refuses to send less than 720P through an HDMI so I'd not been able to solve this conundrum until I saw a Sky HD box hooked up to an XD1.