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[TheBoy]

PS just happens to be a Sony  

[Taxi_Driver]

PS just happens to be a Sony  

Mind you tv in the bedroom is a Sony as well......it works well.....but prob coz it hasnt been turned on for ages....probably months....ummm id guess nearly a year tbh  

[TheBoy]

PS just happens to be a Sony  

Mind you tv in the bedroom is a Sony as well......it works well.....but prob coz it hasnt been turned on for ages....probably months....ummm id guess nearly a year tbh  

All joking aside, older Sony stuff was OK. Its the newer stuff thats crap.

[Taxi_Driver]

PS just happens to be a Sony  

Mind you tv in the bedroom is a Sony as well......it works well.....but prob coz it hasnt been turned on for ages....probably months....ummm id guess nearly a year tbh  

All joking aside, older Sony stuff was OK. Its the newer stuff thats crap.

I was serious! lol!! I have a Sony tv wall mounted in my bedroom....prob is theres no power socket anywhere near.....so its not been turned on since ive lived here...just over a year now  

[Martin_1962]

If they can afford a licence a one off £25 for a basic box is not too painfull

Its the complexity that puts many off.

Also, there is a benefit so you don't have to pay tv licence....

I sometimes wonder if people who would get confused deserve TV - but then it would hurt ITVs ratings

[Taxi_Driver]

Was at my bro's today and whats he bought ?? a huge Plasma  

Didnt like to say why? You shoulda got an LCD!

Only thing going for it was it was a Panasonic.....reasonable make i guess.

His missus choose it......bet you carnt guess the reason for it.....



It had to fit in a specific place.....so measured the area it had to go in.......and it was the only one in the shop that measured exactly right dimensions  

Fair play tho.....theres only a few mil around the case and surround its been shoved in  

[TheBoy]

Panasonic make excellent plasmas

[Martin_1962]

Panasonic make excellent plasmas

Panasonic make good Plasma "TVs" Pioneer make good HD Plasma "TVs" Fujitsu are good for Plasma panels.

[Taxi_Driver]

I must admit it did a fairly good pic.......but surely LCD's are the way to go now  :-/

[Martin_1962]

I must admit it did a fairly good pic.......but surely LCD's are the way to go now  :-/

I prefer LCD but poor LCD and poor Plasma are both horrid

[Taxi_Driver]

I must admit it did a fairly good pic.......but surely LCD's are the way to go now  :-/

I prefer LCD but poor LCD and poor Plasma are both horrid

Now heres a question ive been wondering about.........usually in the high street giants when you are buying a cd/hifi whatever.....the salespeople usually have a 'demo' cd that shows off the bass/treble response of the units and generally makes the unit sound 'brilliant' .....but in the real world of your own collection of cds the perfromance can be a bit 'flat' and is usually recommended you take your own cd in to try in the units for comparision.

Does the same apply for large screen tv's? Do they run a 'demo' dvd on them to make them look better than they really are?

Its just i wondered into a high street giant the other day and they had about 30 tvs on all lined up in 3 rows of ten all playing the same advertising dvd......picture qualitity on them all was blooming good.....in fact you couldnt tell them apart qualitity picture wise......size of screen ranged from 32" to over 40" and they all looked brilliant stood about 3/4 feet away  :-/

[Martin_1962]

I must admit it did a fairly good pic.......but surely LCD's are the way to go now  :-/

I prefer LCD but poor LCD and poor Plasma are both horrid

Now heres a question ive been wondering about.........usually in the high street giants when you are buying a cd/hifi whatever.....the salespeople usually have a 'demo' cd that shows off the bass/treble response of the units and generally makes the unit sound 'brilliant' .....but in the real world of your own collection of cds the perfromance can be a bit 'flat' and is usually recommended you take your own cd in to try in the units for comparision.

Does the same apply for large screen tv's? Do they run a 'demo' dvd on them to make them look better than they really are?

Its just i wondered into a high street giant the other day and they had about 30 tvs on all lined up in 3 rows of ten all playing the same advertising dvd......picture qualitity on them all was blooming good.....in fact you couldnt tell them apart qualitity picture wise......size of screen ranged from 32" to over 40" and they all looked brilliant stood about 3/4 feet away  :-/

Different discs are more of a test for different players.

Take along a good disc out of your collection, something well encoded with few artifacts, insist on best connection.

Some players can upscale via HDMI, some can do progressive via component, do not test composite or svideo

Best should be

HDMI
then RGB via seperate cables (projectors sometimes use this)
Then RGB SCART and Component - this is down to the TVs and the DVD players transcoders and lead quality. DVDs store in component most TVs like RGB, somewhere along the line it gets converted.

Then SVideo then composite then RF