Best flat panel for SD?
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I know, if you search my posts I have always been anti flat panel TV and love my CRTs, one of which is over 25 years old but it looks like I may have to replace the main telly so I spent a while in Currys/PC World yesterday whilst a salesman, who I have to say was very good at knowing his stuff (I work in telly so play dumb, then trip them up), got me interested in the latest G30 42ins Panasonic Plasma.
My main worry is that most of the time it will be showing SD TV and using a normal Sky +, Freeview PVR and DVD player. I know that it comes with an HD Freeview tuner.
Now I got the guy to demo SD in the shop and it looked fekin' terrible although he did say that their incoming signal was split into many feeds.
How bad would SD really look and would I be spending a lot just to have a far worse picture, considering that I think my CRT picture is the dog's danglies.
Cheers.
My main worry is that most of the time it will be showing SD TV and using a normal Sky +, Freeview PVR and DVD player. I know that it comes with an HD Freeview tuner.
Now I got the guy to demo SD in the shop and it looked fekin' terrible although he did say that their incoming signal was split into many feeds.
How bad would SD really look and would I be spending a lot just to have a far worse picture, considering that I think my CRT picture is the dog's danglies.
Cheers.
We have a Panasonic G20, and only use SD for TV (Bluray for movies). The SD picture is OK, but it won't be up to your CRT viewing. I put up with it because I don't watch a lot of TV, and down here in March next year we are getting Freeview HD on the main channels, so it'll do for now.
croyde said:
I know, if you search my posts I have always been anti flat panel TV and love my CRTs, one of which is over 25 years old but it looks like I may have to replace the main telly so I spent a while in Currys/PC World yesterday whilst a salesman, who I have to say was very good at knowing his stuff (I work in telly so play dumb, then trip them up), got me interested in the latest G30 42ins Panasonic Plasma.
My main worry is that most of the time it will be showing SD TV and using a normal Sky +, Freeview PVR and DVD player. I know that it comes with an HD Freeview tuner.
Now I got the guy to demo SD in the shop and it looked fekin' terrible although he did say that their incoming signal was split into many feeds.
How bad would SD really look and would I be spending a lot just to have a far worse picture, considering that I think my CRT picture is the dog's danglies.
Cheers.
My main worry is that most of the time it will be showing SD TV and using a normal Sky +, Freeview PVR and DVD player. I know that it comes with an HD Freeview tuner.
Now I got the guy to demo SD in the shop and it looked fekin' terrible although he did say that their incoming signal was split into many feeds.
How bad would SD really look and would I be spending a lot just to have a far worse picture, considering that I think my CRT picture is the dog's danglies.
Cheers.
I wouldn't trust your average Currys salesman to run a bath, let alone set up a TV
I own a Panny 50VT20 and the SD picture is more than acceptable on the mainstream channels
but some of the more obscure channels can look a little ropey.
Also remember that the G30 has a Freeview HD tuner so for BBC/ITV/CH4 you've HD for most of the time
But if everything is less than a pint of milk a day, how come I'm shelling out so much dosh out at the end of the month 
I think I'll stick with the 28ins CRT with the slightly dodgy speaker for a bit and save myself £700 plus the cost of newer DVD player, the price of Blue-Rays, the HD monthly charge etc
It all adds up and the kids will only fek it all up
Thanks for the info people. Cheers.
PS you can put things on top of an old CRT, like the Halloween Pumpkin that dripped juice down into the back of the telly and blew the power supply and the treble speaker.
I think I'll stick with the 28ins CRT with the slightly dodgy speaker for a bit and save myself £700 plus the cost of newer DVD player, the price of Blue-Rays, the HD monthly charge etc
It all adds up and the kids will only fek it all up
Thanks for the info people. Cheers.
PS you can put things on top of an old CRT, like the Halloween Pumpkin that dripped juice down into the back of the telly and blew the power supply and the treble speaker.
I'm glad I have finally gotten to the bottom of this as I was always amazed, when HD channels were still in the pipeline, that people would show off their massive flat screen and I would wonder why the picture was so crap.
So it's a bit like when the widescreens came out, which were good for DVD but hardly anyone was broadcasting in 16:9 so the pictures were zoomed out and looked bloomin' terrible and soap stars looked really fat, well fatter then they were in real life.
Think I'll wait until HD is the SD of the future.
So it's a bit like when the widescreens came out, which were good for DVD but hardly anyone was broadcasting in 16:9 so the pictures were zoomed out and looked bloomin' terrible and soap stars looked really fat, well fatter then they were in real life.
Think I'll wait until HD is the SD of the future.
How far were you standing from the 42" tv? There is a chart floating around on the internet somewhere, Deristrictor probably has it, that tells you the optimum viewing distance from TVs of all sizes. Too close the picture is going to ba awful no matter what TV. Also if your old CRT tv was 42" then that would look awful too.
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