Good HDTVs for gaming?

My old CRT is finally on its way out. Any suggestions for an HDTV that would be good for gaming (VF5!)? I'm looking around the 26-42 inch range and would like to keep my budget under $1,000 if possible. A tv that also works well with 480i games would also be ideal. Thanks.

 

Thanks for listing price range. That helps narrow things down. If you want to use a display rather than an actual television, I recommend this 27" Dell unit and a good set of PC speakers. I use Dell 20" 2007WFP widescreens at my office and they double as PS3 VF5 displays for VF parties. 12ms response time = no perceptible input lag.

I think it's going to be difficult to find an HD unit that does SD with beautiful results and I haven't tried hooking a PS2 to one of these monitors to see what happens.

If you want to research 26-42 Televisions, spend a bunch of time looking at threads in here. Look for things like 120mHz refresh, 4-15ms response, native contrast ratios (highest I've seen is 3000:1 - ignore dynamic contrast ratios).

 

CranktheBODOM, what console do you have?

 

My Samsung 50" DLP was just under $1000 and I love it. Don't ask me too much about the techincal stuff though. I am not the type of player that counts frames so I couldn't tell you about any sort of lag from system to TV. I just know I love how the games and BluRay look.

 

I'm quite the technical guy, all I can tell is to avoid rescaling like plague if you are using LCD/TFT. It's just the worse thing ever.
The way to avoid it is to feed the display with a signal which has the very same resolution as that of the panel of the display itself (aka native resolution)
Basically, if you are on HD Ready devices, it's either Xbox 360 set through VGA cable and set to 1360×768 or DEATH. Samsung and Toshiba do manifacture a model of HDTV whose native resolution is 1280×720 aka 720p. If you have one of these, then having 720p (either via HDMI or Component YPbPr) is good. But they are very rare.

 

I hear Vizios are good for the price.