What TV Do You Recommend for PS2/PS3 Compatibility

[auronlu]

Hello. Semi-luddite here. On the one hand, I had a computer by 1979. On the other hand, I didn't get a color TV for the first few years living away from home; Babylon 5 looked just FINE in B&W!

Around 1996, my Mom bestowed a very basic color TV on me.

It is still my TV. It is plugged into a converter I bought at Fry's, so as to connect it to my PS2. There are various problems ranging from buzzy speakers when the screen is mostly white, to lack of digital signal capability.

I received birthday money to buy a new TV, and have now recovered sufficiently from NEARLY GOING BLIND IN ONE EYE *hyperventilate* to consider TV shopping.

I've heard that if you get a good-quality HD TV and plug it into a PS2 (or 3), you'll see ugly artifacts and jaggies that are smoothed out by lower-resolution TVs.

So I should like to know what sort of TV people recommend for PS2/3 compatibility, or what questions I should be asking at the store.

I'd like:
-- HD
-- mmmmaybe a built in thingie that lets me play DVDs and Blue Ray?
-- mmmaybe a port so I can use it to show stuff off my laptop. [peers at MacBook. Are you SVIDEO or what, little computer?]

I don't want to spend huge gobs. I don't need a top-of-the-line whatsit.

Also, should I be considering LCD or what? I'm so behind on TV technology. I know NUFFINK.

Comments

[ellnyx.livejournal.com]

If the Samsung does avoid the jaggy edges, it would definitely be a better buy for all-round quality and value for money. Samsungs generally have pretty good in-built speakers, too.

The artefacts might be caused by a pixel rating difference. Of the four LCDs I tried with terrible results (all the FFs and Vagrant Story with the worst results, Persona 3 not so bad), some were SD, some were HD, but all were 1080 pixels ++. Don't know if PAL games are different to the US's NTSC, too, that might be causing a display difference.

Maybe buy from somewhere that will let you return it if it is truly unplayable?

[lassarina]

I've seen jaggy edges on, say, the PlayStation era FF games and Vagrant Story, but those are there pretty much no matter what, due to the hardware/graphics limitations.

FF9 through 12, as well as the various PS2 Shin Megami Tensei games I've tried, display beautifully. Mine is a 1080i. Maybe it is a formatting difference.