*adopts stance upon soapbox*
Keep your CRT.

LCD tellies are crap.

Actually, that's not true. SD on an HD LCD is crap. The compression artefacts are all too obvious, even with good upscaling. You can't generate information if it's not there. BBC's not bad, but a lot of the other channels use really low bitrates and look abysmal.

It annoys me greatly every time I watch television on an LCD screen. A CRT makes a much better job of displaying SD content. Admittedly, HD is good, but the compression artefacts are still visible

Sorry for the rant - poorly executed digital radio/television transmission is one of my pet gripes.

*stands down from soapbox*

If you must go HD-LCD, Panasonic is better than Sony. Sony deliberately overdrive the electronics to enhance the LCD picture, apparently, which results in poorer reliability.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Mon 8 Dec 2008, 20:13, Reply)