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Northy - Got a big ASDA near you?

I've found them to be tremendous value with good warranty. My two and a half year old 28 inch telly had a picture fault. It had a 3 year warranty from ASDA, which I couldn't find. Took it back, asked them if they could do anything. They said sure, we do that model and we believe you when you say its less than 3 years old - you can choose another of the same type or pay the difference for a more expensive one. So now I have a 28 inch widescreen that cost me 50 quid plus my old faulty telly. Well happy with that !!

Cheers Keith

[embee]

Coombest sounds like the expert here. Dead right about the factory settings!

I'd certainly suggest Panasonic as probably best quality/price compromise. All the reviews I've read will rate them highly. I have a 32" Sony (which doesn't whistle ) and I like the picture. I like 100Hz, a good digi signal will produce a totally stable image. I find 28" looks too letterboxy, but it depends how big the room is.

One thing to remember, these things are heavy! The Sony 32" comes in at 67kg IIRC. 2 man job to shift those lumps!

Comet+Curry have awful customer service reputations, but do sometimes have good prices.

I brought a small one a month and ended up and commet and currys after checking the online prices which were similar after delivery added. Went with Commet purely on the service at the time of purchase and I could take it home then and there. I went with Toshiba only because prices were much cheaper than Sony/Panasonic and I've always had Toshiba laptops which have never let me down in the past. Also consider Grundig and Thompson which are similar.

[northwind]

Went to Currys today to pick up the one I wanted... They'd lost the stand So I'm going to have to last a couple of days with no TV! Or stream everything on the PC down my shonky web connection

Cheers for all the advice folks, much food for thought now I'm back in the market, so to speak. I was going with a 100hz 32" JVC at £50 but on reflection it's too big for me, so the number one contender is this :

http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/stor...ned&tabIndex=2
(link might expire, don't shout at me if it does!)

At that price I can look at getting a decent DVD player to go with it, instead of using my PS2. It's last year's model, but frankly I could care less about that... My brother had the model before, or the model before. which was very grainy, but this one seems to have a better screen.

[northwind]

Ah, but that Pan that Tim mentioned looks pretty nice too, also 100hz refresh... Hmm.

[northwind]

I think the Pan wins it. It's all going on my newly-cleared credit card so what's an extra £50

Originally Posted by embee

Coombest sounds like the expert here. Dead right about the factory settings!

I'd certainly suggest Panasonic as probably best quality/price compromise. All the reviews I've read will rate them highly. I have a 32" Sony (which doesn't whistle ) and I like the picture. I like 100Hz, a good digi signal will produce a totally stable image. I find 28" looks too letterboxy, but it depends how big the room is.

One thing to remember, these things are heavy! The Sony 32" comes in at 67kg IIRC. 2 man job to shift those lumps!

Comet+Curry have awful customer service reputations, but do sometimes have good prices.

Err... Well, I was selling Televisions at an independent HiFi store for over 2 years and have been installing Home Cinema systems for the past 3 years (now have my own business doing that) so have had to set up most makes of screens you can think of!

The 32" Sonys do tend to be heavier than anything else on the market for some reason, which has alwars confused the hell out of me!!
Most 32" screens are about 50kg and 28"s around 35kg, IIRC.

I used to sell Panasonic and Loewe very regularly and we had a repair agent as well who repaired anything... Used to get about 2 Panasonics a year and tens of every other make!

I have 2 Panasonic screens at home here and have never once been let down by them (well - one dry joint fixed, FOC by my engineer!)... My big one is a 29" 4:3 screen and it's been going strong for about 12 years now... It still has a beter picture than the majority of CRT televisions on the market and better than any LCD... The NEC Hi Def Plasmas (currently the cream of the crop, IMO) are just coming vaguely close - and a Runco plasma is very nearly as good - but that's £4,500 for a non-HiDef 42"!!!

yeah i have to agree with coombest i would go with panasonic but the down side to panasonic crts just now is there crappy tv stands that come with the tv very flimsy not the safest stands on the planet i think

as for installion its very easy most tvs are

i feel sorry for all these people who buy lcd or plazma and they think there picture
is great when it is complete p**h i dont have the heart to tell them when i install them

i know all this cause i work for 1 of the companys mentioned before

if u need any advice northwind on buying from these companys then let me know




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[northwind]

I won't be buying much in the way of protection/extended guarantees, I know that much- I saw figures for one of the policies in, I think, Comet, which was almost a quarter the price of the set It's like playing the lottery with £50 tickets.

The stand will be wedged between a hefty table and an inexplicable Big Wooden Box that I wa given when I was 10, so it should be solid enough.

Next question- DVD/VCR players. I might just use my PS2, but I'm tempted by a DVD-R recorder. I know the media are flimsy, but I can't be doing with video tapes now that everything else I have is disc or drive-based. I do still have a lot of good stuff on video, some of which I'd want to transfer to DVD, so I'm tempted by one of those dual decks. Yay or nay?

me personally i would buy seperate units but if u have a video recorder just now u could buy a dvd recorder and connect them with scart and play the video while recording on to dvd so u could put ur video collection on dvd may take a while though for all ur videos but it can be done

there isnt much choice on dvd/vcrs

more choice on dvd recorders

the way i look at it if it was me and i bought a dvd/vcr if the dvd bit broke then am stuck with the video and vice versa


hope this helps mate



ps not completly sure bout pic quality if transfering video to dvd
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