Exactly. Don't buy a TV until you have seen the image quality and compared it with other TVs. Go in a shop.phishman420 wrote:
just go to a store and pick one out that looks good, has what you want, and is at a good price
Well ofcourse, I'm just wondering what some recommended brands and such are before I go in and spend $1000 on a TV.Sup wrote:
Exactly. Don't buy a TV until you have seen the image quality and compared it with other TVs. Go in a shop.phishman420 wrote:
just go to a store and pick one out that looks good, has what you want, and is at a good price
60hz, 6.5ms response.Stimey wrote:
This seems like a good one. Why its less than the 37" I'll never know, the have the same specs
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Exactly.Aries_37 wrote:
Even in the shops they will tweak their settings to make them look good, and it might be that when you bring them home you find the colours and saturation are way too garish for a living room or bedroom.
Best thing to do is to play it safe and get a (smaller if need be) Sony Bravia
Not always. Sometimes they don't know how to properly tweak their settings, but you can assume that if it looks poor at a shop, it's probably not worth messing with at home. At any rate, you're going to be getting a better idea of what you're getting through your own eyes than stats on the internet.Aries_37 wrote:
Even in the shops they will tweak their settings to make them look good, and it might be that when you bring them home you find the colours and saturation are way too garish for a living room or bedroom.
Best thing to do is to play it safe and get a (smaller if need be) Sony Bravia
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Chances are, people going for a new TV are going to be shopping for HDMI anyway, so displays like that can be freely ignored.baggs wrote:
Exactly.Aries_37 wrote:
Even in the shops they will tweak their settings to make them look good, and it might be that when you bring them home you find the colours and saturation are way too garish for a living room or bedroom.
Best thing to do is to play it safe and get a (smaller if need be) Sony Bravia
I was browsing round my local PC World store a number of weeks back and entered their home entertainment area and was greeted by a demonstration of 'Cars' on three screens but each with different forms of connectivity. One scart, one component and the other was HDMI. It was to prove the superiority of HDMI over its peers.
Alas, HDMI looked awesome. But upon a closer look, they'd used a better screen for the HDMI connection. So they was cheating in some respects in the way they was demonstrating the HDMI product.
Of course it goes without saying, HDMI > scart/component etc.. but still, their demo was a bit naughty. Needless to say, it says a lot about PC World, i doubt i would ever buy a TV under their advice anyway. I'd go see my friend at his independant Hi-Fi store.
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