Chose this Plasma TV in the end...

[Scutch]

Thanks for the input on the LCD/Plasma post, and the links to other forums etc. From that I've decided in the end that I didnt need an LCD just yet, plus the seating arrangement in my home hinders viewing for others not within angle range. Opted for this badboy in the end...

Panasonic TH-42PHD8UK

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Oh yis!

 

[Dansta]

thanks for saving me the leg work

 

[Scutch]

thanks for saving me the leg work

Not a problem

 

[Griff]

What boards did you choose for it (or where chose for you) ??

 

[SimonV6]

Yeah love my 40" LCD, but the viewing angles are crap, best place in right in front, if off to the side by just a few degrees it starts to look washed out compared to my 42" Plasma.

But face on to it prefer the LCD


Simon

 

[McBunny]

i take it you did get a hdmi input didnt you ?

 

[Griff]

i take it you did get a hdmi input didnt you ?

That's what I was thinking hence asking about the input boards. I've seen a few places selling the Panny's with a s**t choice of boards onboard.

 

[McBunny]

or non at all

i take it you also have a free view box or skydont ya ?
otherwise you wont have much fun watching a blank display as it has no tuner

 

[Phill1978]

1024X768 ? that PC resolution.

xbox 720p for widescreen is 1280 x 720 so your missing 135,000 pixels. all consumer widescreen LCD`s run at 1366 x 768 which is 262,000 more pixels

im sure it will look mint only LCD`s seem to have larger resolutions anyways to supoprt genuine widescreen 720p without pixel cropping. the new LCD 1980 x 1080p panels out this year produce 2.1 million pixels per frame !!

get some pics up of the beast m8

 

[McBunny]

the tosh 42 and 47" lcd's already have 180 panels

i mentioned in another thread about it not really been a hd resolution

 

[Alan]

Nice bit of kit mate!

 

[Scutch]

Yeah I havent bought it yet. Enquired yesterday but no answer so yet to take the step. Its apparently one of the best plasma tv's on the market. I have Sky Plus, yeah, as I realise it has no tuner. Might have to have another browse around but this one seems class from what I know about it.

 

[Griff]

It also doesn't come with any input's by default. You (or the shop) need to choose what input's you want and add that to the price (unless it's part of the bundle)

 

[McBunny]

also you do know it doesnt have any speakers too dont ya ?

 

[Gareth]

i've got the Samsung PS42S5HX (42" Plasma) HDMI, VGA, Component. IIRC the res is 1024 x 768, can view it from loads of angles perfectly.

 

[muz]

I may be wrong but I heardthat Plasmas only have a 5 year lifespan? Isnt this why everyone is going LCD ?

Like I said might be bull but I def have head that!

 

[Griff]

I may be wrong but I heardthat Plasmas only have a 5 year lifespan? Isnt this why everyone is going LCD ?

Like I said might be bull but I def have head that!

If used 24 hours a day with the brightness and contrast at 100% maybe.. A lot of what is floating around is crap though to be honest. You'd be suprised at the amount of people who will argue a man in a white coat has to come arround to refill the tv with plasma lol

 

[McBunny]

lol yup griff is right alot of people know f**k all about plasma/lcd and hd except what their mate has told them or even worse the bloke in dixons !!!!

the biggest area where people get it wrong is with 1080p resolutions saying that there isnt a point getting one till you can get a screen that will do 1080p60
thats simply not true and 1080p60 is quite some way off been used as a standard for anything.

sky is 1080i
telewest 1080i
hd dvd 1080p25 and 30
bluray 1080p25 and 30

ps3 1080p60 possibly if the developers ever make a game that is actually that detailed the chances are they wont for quite a while

 

[Scutch]

Yeah its just a stock base model. It has no speaker setup but it still plays sound of some variation right?
Might have to have a rethink here then. Speakers, cables, stand, TV, all adds up to around £2000 in total. Hmm...

The ones at www.richersounds.com have sh*tloads of cash knocked off them, some up to £2k!

 

[McBunny]

yes no speakers at all its a monitor ie designed to display a picture in an airport of the flight times thats it

try the pio 436 series

question is have you actually had a look at any tv's in the flesh before you discounted an lcd set ??

 

[Anonymous]

I would go for LCD mate

I have just bought this and its a great unit

http://uk.lge.com/prodmodeldetail.do?actType=search&page=1&modelCategoryId=0102&categoryId=0102&parentId=01&modelCodeDisplay=32LX2R&model=NOTHING#

 

[Rufstuf]

I have 3 of these in my gym, and they have performed faultlessly. The picture is really sharp and you can view it from any angle. I have all 3 running off a digibox with a signal amplifier and audio comes from a Cambridge 4 channel amp. Got the lot (plus a 17" LG LCD thrown in) for under 4 grand from Richer sounds.

 

[Phill1978]

lol yup griff is right alot of people know f**k all about plasma/lcd and hd except what their mate has told them or even worse the bloke in dixons !!!!

the biggest area where people get it wrong is with 1080p resolutions saying that there isnt a point getting one till you can get a screen that will do 1080p60
thats simply not true and 1080p60 is quite some way off been used as a standard for anything.

sky is 1080i
telewest 1080i
hd dvd 1080p25 and 30
bluray 1080p25 and 30

ps3 1080p60 possibly if the developers ever make a game that is actually that detailed the chances are they wont for quite a while

yea but what i was saying was there will be pixel cropping as 360 stuff due to widescreen nature is higher than 1024x768. that res is for PC stuff not widescreen stuff so pixel cropping and scaling.

1080p is important i think your wrong about this.

a 1080i signal as mentioned still requires a 1080p screen if its to show all the pixels, i bet you pretend to have known that

 

[McBunny]

a 1080i signal doesnt need a 1080p panel
all lcd and plasma is progressive as default!! the only difference between a tv that has a 1920x1080i panal and a 1080p panal is the support for 1080p 50 and 60 inputs

no
cropping will happen to an image it will jusr resample it in the tv's scaler

your right 1024x768 is a pc standard the tv uses square pixels to get a widescreen image


oh and a 1080i image will display on a 720p screen it will just scale it

 

[McBunny]

1080i60 = 1080p30
1080i50 = 1080p25

etc etc