John Lewis and an honest salesman

[paddyhasneeds]

Afternoon off, popped to John Lewis to look at a few things and found myself looking at LCD and Plasma TVs as whilst I think the picture is great I'm continuously made to feel poor for only having a 28" CRT set.

Asked the chap if I could borrow a pen to jot down a few model numbers and got chatting to him and he basically advised me to keep what I'd got.

Said himself that unless you have a lot of HD stuff and especially if you watch Sky and a lot of non HD stuff that in his opinion other than the space saving you're worse off with an LCD or Plasma set.

He also put a few sets on to the store aerial to show me the differences in quality, and IMO plasma came out much better, however he then went on to point out that Plasma's tend to start at 40" or so and you really do want to be sat at least 12-14 feet away, which I wouldn't be.

I was shocked, I thought they were supposed to be trying to sell me stuff

[paddyhasneeds]

My post was meant to be praising good honest customer service.

Why on earth has it been moved here..

[paddyhasneeds]

I thought the plasma I looked at yesterday (I remember it was a Samsung 42" and was £499) looked very good even fed from the aerial.

Problem is with Plasmas they don't seem to do anything under 42" and sat 8" away from a 42" screen can't be a good thing.

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allgonepetetong said:

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the plasma I looked at yesterday (I remember it was a Samsung 42" and was £499) looked very good even fed from the aerial.

Problem is with Plasmas they don't seem to do anything under 42" and sat 8" away from a 42" screen can't be a good thing.

Why's that?

The maximum THX viewing distance for a 42" screen is actually only 6.8ft (26deg viewing angle)

Really? I simply assumed that a 42" screen that looks big enough in a shop surrounded by other TVs (a 28" CRT looks diddy in a shop surrounded by similar) would be bloody massive in a 15x15' room?

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allgonepetetong said:

paddyhasneeds said:

allgonepetetong said:

paddyhasneeds said:

I thought the plasma I looked at yesterday (I remember it was a Samsung 42" and was £499) looked very good even fed from the aerial.

Problem is with Plasmas they don't seem to do anything under 42" and sat 8" away from a 42" screen can't be a good thing.

Why's that?

The maximum THX viewing distance for a 42" screen is actually only 6.8ft (26deg viewing angle)

Really? I simply assumed that a 42" screen that looks big enough in a shop surrounded by other TVs (a 28" CRT looks diddy in a shop surrounded by similar) would be bloody massive in a 15x15' room?

Well it might look massive at first when hanging on the wall, but are you thinking of it as an object that hangs on the wall, or a tool to watch movies and TV broadcast?

Also, bear in mind that while it might look massive during the first week when compared to your old set, it won't once you are used to it.

Souce of calculations here:
http://myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistance...

Actually it'd be in a corner as the room layout doesn't suit wall mounting - and of course in a corner it'd likely take up more space than a smaller CRT as it sits across the diagonal with a big empty void behind it.

Be interested (I'll search as I'm sure it's covered) in some info on plasma vs. LCD given I don't have any HD kit, do have Sky Plus but not Sky HD (obviously).