Looks like Loewe have got into the act thay have releasted a 55" DLP RPTV at $9990

Thats been around for awhile now I think, hasnt it.

Loewe are continuing to do what they have done for years ... take decent products and improve them (for a price)... as you know, a great deal of the last 5% gain in PQ comes from the clever manipulation of the signal/data.

Hi Santa

Must say i have not seen this before

I previewed the Loewe 55". I must say I was impressed by the tempered glass on the front. Not plastic like LG or Samsung.

As for picture quality I previewed it wth a HD STB unfortunately the quality of their digital reception was very poor -- on the margin threshold.

What poor MPEg reception?????

Well dropped frames for one thing. Image frame rejection another. Macro blocking another. What should have a good MPEG frame (which is rejected) then causes a drop in quality! In fact divx like.

They attached a DVD progressive player. Still I felt that upscaling quality was not there and felt the results would been beeter acheived from experimental HTPC optimization and upscaling.

I left the place with my perception of most HD STB's are doing a VERY VERY POOR job in any decoding on the plasmas and this DLP model. Going DVI just will not resolve very poor scaling and decoding quality of MPEG.

The question then to ask? What are you saying man aren't all MPEG decoders made equal. Does not a DVI give you the necessary qualit?y

I say: Simply absolutely NO!. Feed any DVI a uncleaned, incorrecly upscaled partly corrupted MPEG and you'll end with crap no matter what your display attributes.

My opinion of DLP is difficult to call with above variables. But my eye testing would indicate this DLP is worthy of consideration but under lesser "hostile" conditions.

DA