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Like that broomstick in a game of limbo, prices on LCD HDTVs just seem to get lower and lower and lower. The Soyo DYLT032D is one of the least-expensive 32-inch flat-panel LCD sets out there right now, costing less than $800 at the time of this writing. The big question is whether it can squeeze under that low price bar without falling flat on its back.

The Soyo DYLT032D"s look is pretty bland: all black with a few chrome-colored accents. Soyo elected to go with speakers on the sides, a bad move in a world where most new HDTVs have speakers below the screen to save as much width as possible. This is especially important for midsize wide-screen HDTVs such as the Soyo, which are often asked to squeeze into entertainment centers designed for older, non-wide-screen televisions. Set atop the included stand, the DYLT032D measures 38.6 by 22.4 by 11.8 inches (WHD) and weighs 33.1 pounds.

Side-mounted speakers make for extra width; sparse input selection; no ATSC tuner for off-air HDTV reception; reproduces a light color of black; subpar picture with standard-def sources.

As is often the case with budget LCDs, the included remote won"t win any medals for ergonomics, cannot control other devices, and incorporates some unusual keys. A huge button labeled Bright is indeed the brightness control; why the designer chose to single it out among the other picture controls, such as contrast and color, is a mystery. The same wacky forces were apparently at work when YPrPb (that"s component video to the rest of us), alone among the input types, scored its own direct-access button.

We"ve also never seen an HDTV with the Soyo DYLT032D"s zoom. A rocker switch on the remote allows you to zoom 80 steps into the image, which is plenty of magnification, for example, to fill the screen with one of the small network logo watermarks in the lower right of many TV shows. You can also zero in on any portion of the screen. In addition to the zoom mode, there are two other aspect-ratio control settings, and all are available across every source and input.

The strangeness continues with the Soyo"s input bay. Its single HDCP-enabled DVI port is the lone digital input, and while it works fine with HDMI sources as long as you have an adapter, most new LCDs have actual HDMI ports instead. There are two component-video inputs, but only one can accept progressive-scan and/or high-def sources; the second can handle only regular 480i sources. You"ll find one of each composite-video and S-Video inputs, but they share a single set of audio jacks. We liked the presence of a VGA-style PC input (1,280x768 is the recommended resolution), but overall, the jack pack is subpar.

While most HDTVs available now, such as the similarly priced Westinghouse LTV-32W3, comply with the FCC tuner mandate and include an ATSC tuner for off-air HDTV reception, the Soyo does not. If you hook up this TV to an antenna, you"ll get only standard-def TV, which naturally won"t be a big deal if you depend on cable anyway. There is a versatile picture-in-picture setting, however, that allows many combinations of sources between the main and inset windows.

The Soyo offers a decent level of control over the picture. While there are no picture presets, independent input memories allow you to save your settings for different sources. There are also three color-temperature presets, as well as the ability to adjust color temperature manually in the user menu. The five-position slider labeled Backlight, unfortunately, had no appreciable effect on either absolute light output or black levels; going from 0 to 5 increased light output by a mere 6 footlamberts, from 79 to 85. Finally, the Fleshtone setting made the image too red to our eyes, so we left it turned off.

When setting up the Soyo for critical viewing, we noticed that its initial color temperature in the Warm preset came relatively close to the standard, and even after adjusting the manual controls, we didn"t get it much closer. The consistency of the grayscale did vary with light output; the image became bluer as it got brighter, although in its favor, the Soyo didn"t become nearly as blue as some LCDs we"ve tested. Unfortunately, the darkest areas became severely discolored, again toward blue, if we decreased contrast below 40 percent or so. We left it turned up, which made the image too bright for comfortable viewing in a dark room.

As expected, the Soyo was severely challenged by a lot of the darker scenes we chose. During the beginning of The Fifth Element, when the ship fires upon the planet-size malevolence, the dark areas of the picture, such as the letterbox bars and the depth of space, appeared noticeably lighter than they did on the ViewSonic N3260W, for example. In its favor, the Soyo delivered better-looking skin tones than the ViewSonic, thanks to its more accurate color temperature. In the classic Leeloo reconstruction sequence, her fair skin appeared significantly more natural and warmer.

Next, we checked out some standard-def video, and the results were less impressive. The Soyo DYLT032D has two component-video inputs, and while the 480i-only jack evinced proper 2:3 pull-down detection, the other did not, resulting in moving, jagged lines and other artifacts in film-based sources. Other sources, such as the waving American flag from the HQV test disc, produced more jagged edges, which the Soyo was incapable of smoothing out. We also found the need to increase the brightness control into the 70 percent range to avoid turning skin tones and other sensitive areas too red. Doing so washed out all of the colors, making them seem less vivid, and black areas appeared even lighter.

The Soyo DYLT032D also did something we"d never seen before. Seemingly at random, it would clip detail in bright areas, which resulted in lots of flat white fields where there should"ve been some darker zones and details. Oddly, the set didn"t always do this, and we saw it on only the HD-capable component-video input with standard-def 480i material. When we switched our DVD player from 480p and back to 480i, the clipping went away for some reason, and the TV"s menu settings didn"t change.

When we tested the Soyo with high-def resolutions, we noticed that both 1080i and 720p, via component video and DVI, measured an impressive 0 percent overscan. In other words, the picture was reproduced all the way out to its edge. In contrast, most TVs crop the outer edges a percentage point or three so that you don"t see any of the interference that"s often visible at the extremes of the picture. Thanks to the Soyo"s zoom, we were able to crop out as much of the picture as we wanted to remove any such interference.

Via HDMI, the Soyo exaggerated the edges of objects, so the jackets of the hosts on SportsCenter, for example, were surrounded by fine white borders against the black background. Normally, such edge enhancement can be reduced using the sharpness control, but for whatever reason, the DVI input doesn"t allow control over sharpness. Overall, details with high-def sources appeared solid with 720p sources, although 1080i sources looked softer than on the ViewSonic via DVI. Since the Soyo didn"t lose much--if any--detail when fed 720p HD sources via component video, we recommend you connect your HD source to this set via component video, which has a sharpness control that can be turned all the way down to reduce (but not eliminate) edge enhancement.

In sum, the Soyo DYLT032D won"t blow anybody away with its image quality, even when compared to other inexpensive LCDs, such as the aforementioned ViewSonic and Westinghouse. It also offers fewer features than either one, and its wide cabinet will be a turnoff for a lot of people. On the other hand, if you want to zoom in on the smallest parts of the picture, the Soyo DYLT032D is the best game in town. If not, go for another budget set.

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Now that you"ve finally outfitted almost every room in your house with a flat-panel HDTV, there"s a new technology being touted as the next big thing: ultra high-definition, or UHD, TV. It sounds impressive, with super-detailed pictures that have four times as many pixels as a 1080p HD set.

And UHD isn"t just a concept that will take years to materialize. It"s here. At press time, there were a few dozen major-brand UHD TVs, all LCD/LED models, with screens from 49 inches up to 85 inches, and prices from about $1,500 to $10,000. (We"re testing several of the newest UHD sets in our labs.)

So are 1080p TVs past their prime? Not by a long shot. This isn"t like the move from standard definition to high def, which was a huge jump in quality. With 1080p and UHD, the difference can be difficult to detect. It"s more of a baby step, and one you don"t have to take immediately—unless you"re ready for a new TV, you want the state of the art, and you"re willing to pay for it. We"ll start with the basics, then help you decide what the UHD transition means to you.

Despite the fanfare, UHD TVs aren"t a new kind of TV. UHD is simply higher-than-high-def resolution. The first UHD sets are all LCD models with LED backlighting. A 1080p TV has 1,920 pixels horizontally by 1,080 vertically, which is about 2 million pixels. A UHD TV has a screen resolution of 3840x2160, or more than 8 million pixels. With all of those extra pixels, even the smallest details stand out—the finest strands of hair and the subtle texture of a cotton shirt, for example. (The 3840 number is close to 4,000, which is why UHD TVs are also known as "4K" sets.)

If it were that simple, all UHD TVs would look great—but that"s not the case. We"ve seen some that had only middling picture quality despite having extra detail. Top picture quality also requires rich, accurate colors, high-contrast images, deep blacks that render shadow detail even in very dark scenes, and sufficient brightness. Like top-scoring HDTVs, the best new UHD TVs have all of that, plus amazing detail, and the resulting picture quality is stunning.

Not really. It depends on a few factors. In our labs, experts scrutinizing 1080p and 4K versions of the same movies on HD and UHD sets sitting side by side could see noticeable differences, including finer texture, sharper type, and smoother edges on the UHD set. But when they stepped back to a normal viewing distance, the differences were hard to ­detect—in fact, a casual viewer would have trouble telling the HD and UHD sets apart. On a very large screen, say, 84 inches and up, you can really appreciate UHD. But with a 65-inch screen like the ones we tested, most viewers would probably think that the HDTV looked just as good.

There"s a limited amount of 4K content available now. Netflix is streaming a few programs such as "House of Cards" in 4K, and Amazon and M-Go should have offerings later this year. The Sony FMP-X1 4K Ultra HD media player, $500, comes with 50 free titles and pay-per-view downloads. Samsung offers a hard drive, $300, loaded with a handful of titles. Both work only with the same brand of TV. DirecTV plans to offer 4K programming within the next year, and Comcast has announced plans to stream 4K video on demand. You can also play your own high-resolution digital photos and home videos from a 4K camcorder. But it will take a while until we have Blu-ray discs, and even longer for 4K broadcasts. Until then, you"d be watching a lot of high-def programs on your UHD set.

You might be pleasantly surprised. We found that Blu-ray movies actually looked a bit better on a UHD TV than on an HD set. That"s because 1080p content is upconverted to the ultra HD TV"s higher resolution, and the greater pixel density of the 4K screen enhances the detail. (Note that the quality of upconverted HD will vary depending on how well a particular model handles the video processing.)

No. Current high-speed HDMI cables will work fine with an ultra HD TV, despite what you might be told in a store. We"ve been testing UHD TVs in our labs using the same high-speed HDMI cables we use to test 1080p TVs, and they"re absolutely fine. So don"t let someone tell you that you need a new, more expensive "Ultra HD" HDMI cable. They"re just looking to sell you a high-margin accessory.

They"re not cheap. Generally speaking, the latest UHD sets cost $2,000 and up—way up—depending on screen size. Expect to pay anywhere from $2,000 to $4,000 for a 55-inch set from a major brand, and in the neighborhood of $3,500 to $6,000 or so for a 65-inch set. Prices range from $6,000 to $10,000 once you get into the 70- to 85-inch range (and bigger sets are coming). That"s a lot more than you"d pay for a first-class HD set. For example, several highly rated 55-inch 1080p sets in our Ratings sell for less than $1,500. But expect UHD prices to come down big-time later this year. A few words of caution for bargain-­hunters: You might be tempted to buy a leftover 2013 UHD set at a discount. We advise against that. Those sets lack the latest features (for you techie types, a built-in HEVC decoder for streaming 4K video, and HDMI 2.0 inputs), which you"ll need to get the most out of 4K. And we"d pass on low-priced UHD sets from lesser-known brands. Those we"ve tested haven"t done as well as big brands.

Hold on to your recliner. We"ve seen prototypes of TVs with 105-inch and 120-inch screens from companies such as LG, Samsung, and Vizio. The companies didn"t say exactly when the jumbo sets would arrive or how much they would cost, but we imagine they will be budget busters. There"s a reason to go big with UHD. The larger the screen, the better you can see and appreciate the detail. In fact, you might not notice it much on a screen smaller than 70 inches or so if you sit about 8 feet from it, a typical distance in many homes.

We"d advise most consumers to wait. (Even our TV experts are holding off!) Prices will come down, and there will be more 4K content to watch—possibly even 4K Blu-ray movies—in a year or two. Also, new features, such as high dynamic range for improved contrast and an expanded range of colors, could be incorporated into ultra HD TVs during that time. If you need a new TV now, stick with a top-rated 1080p set—unless you"re a well-heeled early adopter who wants to experience the current state of the art in TVs. Then consider an ultra HD set, the biggest you can afford, to get the best experience.

You haven"t even bought a UHD set yet and you"re already worried about obsolescence? As long as a UHD TV has HEVC and HDMI 2.0, it won"t be outmoded for years. That"s not to say newer models won"t have added features (such as high dynamic range, more realistic colors, and even faster frame rates for improved motion resolution), but they"ll be incremental improvements, not must-haves. The next big thing could well be OLED (organic LED) TVs, which combine the best of LCD and plasma technology. There are a few pricey 1080p OLEDs for sale now, and an even more expensive ultra HD model is expected later this year. It"s likely to take a few years for OLED to become mainstream. So if you"ve decided to buy a UHD set now, enjoy it and stop worrying about what comes next.

After years of pushing ever-flatter, thinner TVs, manufacturers are throwing buyers a curve—literally. LG, Samsung, and Sony now offer TVs with curved screens. The design is eye-catching, but the curve doesn"t add much to the viewing experience.

With a 100-inch screen, we found that the curve added an immersive, cinematic aspect, but that wasn"t the case on smaller TVs. And there"s a downside to the design. The curve can make for uneven brightness and a reduced viewing angle on the sides of the screen. Keep in mind that it won"t be flush against the wall if wall-mounted. So is it worth it? It"s more of a design choice, and it depends on whether you like the look.

Sharp claims that its new Aquos Quattron Plus (Q+) TVs go beyond regular high-def resolution to approach Ultra HD in picture quality, thanks to its pixel technology. All Aquos Quattron sets add a yellow sub-pixel to the usual red-green-blue mix; Q+ models subdivide each pixel to create more detail on a 1080p screen. We put three Q+ sets--the 60-inch LC-60TQ15U, $1,800; 60-inch LC-60UQ17U, $2,000; and 70-inch LC-70SQ15U, $2,400--through a slew of tests and found that the picture did look a bit more detailed with UHD content. But with 1080p programs, we saw some jaggies along the edges and a smearing of detail on dark images. In addition, the TVs lack HEVC decoding and HDMI 2.0 inputs, two features on all 2014 UHD TVs. Given the limits of Q+ technology and the comparatively high prices, it would make more sense to buy a top-performing 1080p TV or a true Ultra HD TV, especially when prices drop.

Television prices, like gasoline in November, have plummeted. But the comparison ends there, because the price of TVs can be expected to stay that way and even go lower. Large-screen high-definition sets can now be found for considerably less than $1,000, putting the prices of some within parity or even below those of the similar-size tube models they are designed to replace.

Three years ago, a 36-inch HDTV tube set in the 4:3 aspect ratio cost $911. “Today you can get a 32-inch flat-panel wide-screen HDTV for $649 or less,” said Randy Waynick, senior vice president of marketing for Sony Electronics. “They can’t get much cheaper. People are giving them away.”

While Mr. Waynick may speak with a salesman’s enthusiasm, the fact is that prices are lower than many would have conceived possible even a year ago. A 40-inch LCD from Sony that sold for $1,600 a year ago is now $1,000. A 32-inch Sony LCD model available at Wal-Mart cost $1,100 last year; the suggested price of its successor model is $749.

Thanks to increasing worldwide sales and economies of scale, a wide range of large-screen HDTVs are now available for three-figure prices. At Wal-Mart, for example, 42- to 50-inch plasma and LCD sets can be found for $600 to $925. Some lesser-known brands in a 32-inch screen size are around $400.

A television that can display a higher resolution is more important in bigger screen sizes, where the difference can be seen at normal viewing distances. (Only Blu-ray players can actually deliver a 1080p signal. The set will “upconvert” other program sources, like television broadcasts, to near-1080p quality.)

VIEWING ANGLELCD televisions tend to have smaller viewing angles than plasma sets. So if your friends are over to watch the game, those sitting on the left and right of the screen will see an image with blacks that look gray; whites that are darker; reduced contrast; and colors that have shifted.

To counter that effect, Mr. Merson said, consumers should look for LCD televisions that use I.P.S., or in-plane switching technology. I.P.S. is available on Hitachi and Panasonic sets; Samsung and Sony have a similar technology called S-PVA.

INPUTSHDMI is the gold standard for connecting components to the television. It cuts down clutter by combining audio and video into one cable. Also, HDMI is required to transmit a Blu-ray image to an HDTV.

“You would be surprised at the names of the top-tier brands being built by the same factories that build our TVs,” said Rey Roque, vice president for marketing at Westinghouse, a lower-priced brand.

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Modern TVs are more complicated than ever before. If you’ve found yourself browsing one of our guides and felt stumped by some of the acronyms or tech specs, we’ve summarized the most common terms below:

LCD: LCD stands for liquid crystal display, and it’s the most common kind of television besides OLED (defined below). LCD TVs shine an LED backlight through a panel of liquid crystal, a malleable substance that reacts to electricity, opening or closing when jolted. In LCD TVs, the liquid crystal opens to allow the backlight through or closes to block it. The specific details of the opening/closing are dependent upon the arrangement of the pixels: The most common LCD arrangements are Vertical Alignment (VA) and In-Plane Switching (IPS), with the former tending to produce higher contrast and the latter tending to produce wider viewing angles. All so-called “LED” TVs are really LCD TVs, as are all current QLED and ULED TVs.

OLED: An organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, TV creates light inside each individual pixel without using a backlight and can dim each pixel individually all the way down to black, which LCD TVs can’t do. This tech gives an OLED TV an infinite contrast ratio and other benefits to help create an overall better-looking image, although at considerable additional cost. You can read more about OLED technology in this article.

Mini-LEDs: Every LCD TV made today currently uses LEDs to produce the light that shines through the LCD panel. Most TVs use LED lights that pass through a diffuser to light up the entire LCD screen. Mini-LEDs, which some TVs use, are much smaller than traditional LEDs, so TV makers can install more of them and thus create more zones of local dimming, which means less blooming or halos around bright objects. Mini-LEDs are completely different from micro-LEDs, an available (though very expensive) technology that employs individual red, green, and blue LEDs to produce an image without needing an LCD panel at all.

Nits: Also called candelas per square meter (cd/m²), this unit of luminance measures how much light a TV can produce. Previously, TVs could output 200 to 300 nits, and standard dynamic range (SDR) content was graded and mastered with 100 nits as the standard. With high dynamic range (HDR), content is mastered with 1,000, 4,000, or 10,000 nits as the standard; so, the more nits an HDR TV can display, the more accurately it can display the highlights in HDR material without having to reduce the brightness of the highlights or clip them.

Wide color gamut: Ultra HD content has a wider color gamut than standard HDTV content; right now, most UHD content is mastered with the same DCI/P3 color gamut used in theatrical cinema (the ultimate goal is the even larger Rec. 2020 color gamut). This expanded color gamut allows a TV to display richer reds, blues, and greens than ever before. Some TVs use quantum-dot technology to produce this wider color gamut.

Quantum dots: Quantum dots are a color-enhancing technology primarily found in LCD TVs (though some 2022 OLED TVs now have them as well). Chiefly employed as a filter that’s painted onto a substrate, quantum dots are microscopic nano-crystals that, when struck with blue light, produce very vivid red or green light (depending upon the size of the crystal). Quantum dots are the primary technology that allows LCD TVs to produce the wide color gamut required to display HDR content properly, as they greatly increase the color saturation of red and green.

Refresh rate: All digital displays (including TVs) have what’s called a refresh rate, measured in hertz (Hz), shorthand for cycles per second. A TV’s refresh rate refers to how quickly it displays new incoming video information on a nanosecond-to-nanosecond basis. While there are many possible refresh rates, most TVs come with either a 60 Hz refresh rate (meaning 60 screen refreshes per second) or a 120 Hz refresh rate (120 screen refreshes per second). Ideally, a TV will have the highest refresh rate possible, but there are diminishing returns for higher refresh rates during many types of content. A 120 Hz TV has advantages when watching 24p content or mitigating judder (definitions below), and tends to produce less input lag when playing video games, but it won’t provide advantages for most forms of cable TV or streaming content. In 2022, some manufacturers introduced 144 Hz TVs meant to appeal specifically to gamers, but the majority of TVs still have 60 or 120 Hz refresh rates.

Judder: This term refers to a slightly jerky motion that can occur when 24p film content appears on a TV with a 60 Hz refresh rate. In such situations, to make 24 frames match up to the 60 Hz display, half of the frames appear two times and the other half appear three times. This display technique causes judder, which is most noticeable on panning shots. Some 120 Hz displays avoid this effect by repeating each film frame five times, while some 60 Hz panels run at 48 Hz to show each frame twice.

Motion smoothing: Motion smoothing, sometimes called MEMC (Motion Estimation/Motion Compensation), refers to a TV’s ability to intelligently create new frames to create smoother-looking or less juddery motion. Most modern TVs can artificially increase their refresh rates to smooth out fast or difficult sequences, but the efficacy of this motion smoothing is often dependent upon the TV’s native refresh rate. Motion smoothing is also the cause of the “soap opera effect,” where cinematic/24p content looks more like a daytime soap opera due to the insertion of unnecessary frames. The best TVs come with multiple motion smoothing presets, and some even allow the user to fine-tune the degree of judder reduction and frame interpolation employed. When used correctly, motion smoothing can make content like sports and nature documentaries look more realistic, but we prefer it be turned off for content like premium TV, movies, and video games.

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