I picked up a Panasonic Tau (CT-36HL43G) for free last week on Labor Day. It was a struggle wheeling that thing back to my house, but it works. There's no input lag (most important) and the picture is beautiful on 240p and 480i games like Tobal 2, but I tried Super Mario Bros. the next day and I noticed some blurring against the blue sky background. Duck Hunt didn't seem to work at all.
After thinking about it quite some time, I've settled on the following:
I've resigned myself to keeping that thing on a wooden dolly because that thing is heavy. The TV is just under 250 pounds and at least on the dolly it'll be off the floor somewhat. I need to be able to move that thing around so I can rearrange the patio.
The jury's out on whether or not CRT HDTVs lag. My TV is 4:3 and I was pulling off just frames in Tobal 2 just fine, but I remember being at a shmupmeet nearly a decade ago and noticing there was lag on the host's HDTV... which I believe was a CRT due to its size. Again, I didn't notice any lag, and I suppose using the Tau for certain systems isn't a bad idea at all. I don't remember seeing any scanlines, and I kinda want (and need) those.
Maybe I should spring for a remote just so I can play around with the settings to see if I can eliminate the ghosting, or to be more precise, eliminate the image processing. And whenever I turn it on with the button on the TV, I actually feel the static electricity and that doesn't exactly make me feel comfortable.
Does this post mean you can actually play Duck Hunt on a Tau?
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