Had a similar experience years ago when I switched from a tiny 28" CRT to our current widescreen LCD (38"? 40"? 42" 46"? Dun remember la). I'd say the problem has more to do with your living room's size and how far you are sitting from the TV.
With the old 28" CRT, I remember myself always sitting on the floor in the front half of the living room. Since we bought the larger LCD though, my preferred viewing distance moved back a bit to the back half of the living room.
When I am at the TV / electronics store, I would never complain about good fidelity and clarity of the images. I suspect the problem you are running into now is, your TV might be a bit too big for your living room, or you might be watching it from too close. The thing with our field of vision is, it primarily separates into two areas: one is the primary area of focus, and the other is your peripheral vision. The primary area of focus is designed to reproduce high quality visuals, while our peripheral vision is responsible (and therefore more sensitive) to movement at the cost of image resolution. If your TV is too big, or you are sitting too close, the tv screen fills not only your primary area of focus, but also your peripheral vision. When the stuff from the screen moves, and it falls on your peripheral vision, your brain will process that information and try to notify you of those movements because that is how our brain is wired -- if ancient caveman didn't respond to those peripheral vision warnings, they'll likely get eaten by the saber tooth tiger. But not, the peripheral vision's signals just becomes an annoying distraction that prevents you from focusing on what you want to look at.
If you could, try to sit back further when you are watching TV la?
-Lik |