best tv for the money

[Viney]

Originally Posted by thor

I think a decent CRT sounds the way to go. With decent inputs, would look cracking.

i agree witht eh CRT route, but dont forget, that if you cant plug in, or it hasnt got IDTV (Digital freeview) then in 4 year time it will be obsolete as they will start turning of the anolouge signal etc.

£800 LCD's aint that good imho, but if you look around you should be able to get a Samsung, Sharp or Philips for that money. Make sure its HD ready as it has the second generations controller built in, so it cuts down on the blur and pixalation that the earlier ones get.

You can get Plasmas for that money, but again they aint that good.

You aint ever gonna beat a CRT picture.

Stay away from Rear projection!!

[rictus01]

OK the two front runners are

SAMSUNG LE32R51BD £700 :- all bells & whistles on it, she'll like this no doubt.

Or

SAMSUNG WS32Z419D £479.99 :- CRT 100mhz , freeview, HD ready ( might be able to swing this one ?

Keep um coming.

Cheers Mark.

Originally Posted by rictus01

OK the two front runners are

SAMSUNG LE32R51BD £700 :- all bells & whistles on it, she'll like this no doubt.

Or

SAMSUNG WS32Z419D £479.99 :- CRT 100mhz , freeview, HD ready ( might be able to swing this one ?

Keep um coming.

Cheers Mark.

I am really interested in the HD CRT myself but I have heard some really mixed review reards to the picture quality.

[rictus01]

Thanks guys, she wants the bells & whistles, so just ordered it.

Cheers Mark.

For those who are thinking of buying a HD ready set in the near future, this might be of interest.

Most of the current HD Ready LCDs/Plasmas have a native resolution of 768 lines (vertical), meaning that they will be able to display (or at least should) 720p transmissions natively (720 lines, progressive scan so 50 frames per second). They will have to downsample 1080i (1080 lines, interlaced at 50 fields/25 frames per second, as normal SD TVs). From my experience with HD, quite a lot will be shot in 1080i, certainly the BBC filmed stuff I have worked with has all been this. Don't worry about the hype on 1080p, as yet there are no cameras or any equipment which can deal with the 3GBps data rate (uncompressed).

At present HD CRTs are very thin on the ground, even in the professional market, and will (sadly) be phased out eventually due to environmental issues in their manufacture. In the HD studio I work in we have HD LCDs, however they are not really a patch on the 17" HD CRTs we have.

Stuff to look out for over the next few years will be SED by Toshiba, should be able to do true black and nice range.

MT

Originally Posted by empty

For those who are thinking of buying a HD ready set in the near future, this might be of interest.

Most of the current HD Ready LCDs/Plasmas have a native resolution of 768 lines (vertical), meaning that they will be able to display (or at least should) 720p transmissions natively (720 lines, progressive scan so 50 frames per second). They will have to downsample 1080i (1080 lines, interlaced at 50 fields/25 frames per second, as normal SD TVs). From my experience with HD, quite a lot will be shot in 1080i, certainly the BBC filmed stuff I have worked with has all been this. Don't worry about the hype on 1080p, as yet there are no cameras or any equipment which can deal with the 3GBps data rate (uncompressed).

At present HD CRTs are very thin on the ground, even in the professional market, and will (sadly) be phased out eventually due to environmental issues in their manufacture. In the HD studio I work in we have HD LCDs, however they are not really a patch on the 17" HD CRTs we have.

Stuff to look out for over the next few years will be SED by Toshiba, should be able to do true black and nice range.

MT

Not as uncommon as you might think. I've got a 42" Plasma coming in the next week or two which surpasses those resolutions.

[Quiff Wichard]

jimbo- just in time for the world cup final buddy !!

I think Razor is a TV?

Or maybe he'll correct me when he reads this!!

Originally Posted by Quiff Wichard

jimbo- just in time for the world cup final buddy !!

*fingers crossed* BBC HD works!