Plasma recomendation?

Hi all, looking for some advice on choosing a decent plasma (or lcd or crt)
with HD capability, about 37-42 inches screen size. 2-3 grand to spend.

Would also like recommendations on a surround sound speaker system and
amplifier...about a grand to spend here. My lounge is country style so need
the speakers to be unobtrusive as possible to keep other half happy!

I use sky and have a decent DVD player.


Cheers in advance!

Steve

In article ,
R.P.McMurphy wrote:
Hi all, looking for some advice on choosing a decent plasma (or lcd or
crt) with HD capability, about 37-42 inches screen size. 2-3 grand to
spend.

Don't rule out a DLP rear projector either if you're not set on a flat
panel type. They're cheaper than either plasma or LCD and better in many
ways. Not as good as a CRT, though. ;-)

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It mostly depends on the number of pixels that the screen can display.

Apart from available programme material, the problem with true HDTV is
basically that people do not realise that you need a large screen TV.
The following diagram shows the relative sized screen that should be
used for HDTV, assuming the same pixel size
and so the same seating distance for a normal TV:
(view with Fixed Width fonts set)
[-------------------------,-----------------------,--------------------]
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
| Normal TV | | |
| Screen Size | | |
| 4:3 | | |
| (eff 720x576) | | |
| | | |
| | | |
|_________________________] | |
| | |
| | |
| 1365 x768 | |
|_________________________________________________] |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| HDTV 1920x1080 |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------|

So if you have a 68 cm normal TV, then you would need approx a 170 cm HDTV.

Notice that the 1365x768 TV does not get close to the full HDTV, yet
that is the resolution of the TV sets that most stores are trying to
sell as HDTV.

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
R.P.McMurphy wrote:
Hi all, looking for some advice on choosing a decent plasma (or lcd or
crt) with HD capability, about 37-42 inches screen size. 2-3 grand to
spend.

Don't rule out a DLP rear projector either if you're not set on a flat
panel type. They're cheaper than either plasma or LCD and better in many
ways. Not as good as a CRT, though. ;-)

"R.P.McMurphy" wrote in message
...
Hi all, looking for some advice on choosing a decent plasma (or lcd or
crt) with HD capability, about 37-42 inches screen size. 2-3 grand to
spend.

Would also like recommendations on a surround sound speaker system and
amplifier...about a grand to spend here. My lounge is country style so
need the speakers to be unobtrusive as possible to keep other half happy!

I use sky and have a decent DVD player.


Cheers in advance!

Steve

Without doubt I would recommend Pioneer plasma 43". I have had one for 2/3
years. Probably the best pictures I have ever seen in a home.

Mine cost £4.5K but they are about £2.5K now.

"Wdino" wrote in message
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Apart from available programme material, the problem with true HDTV is
basically that people do not realise that you need a large screen TV.

Very true!

I got HD on day one and was very impressed with the HD pictures on my 43"
Pioneer plasma. After a few days experience I concluded that the pictures
were so good that 43" was not really big enough for good quality HD
material!

After considerable research into projector systems I have ended up with a
DLP HD projector and a 76" (diag) pull down screen.

The pictures with suitable HD source material (e.g. Planet Earth, BBC
Wimbledon/World Cup, some Sky movies) are spectacular. One movie-buff friend
of mine said "My God! It looks just like IMAX)". The projector is ceiling
mounted in my normal sized room and the screen is ceiling mounted so that it
pulls down in front of the plasma screen when necessary. When the screen is
retracted the overall appearance of the room is virtually unaltered and
visitors frequently do not notice the screen or projector unless they are
pointed out. The projector is used only when justified by the source
material, otherwise the plasma is used for normal viewing.

The total cost of the projector* system was £1650, which is less than half
of what I paid for the plasma 2.5 years ago!

*ThemeScene HD72i DLP projector 1300 lumens see:
http://www.projectorpoint.co.uk/proj...ene_HD72i.html

Malcolm H wrote:

Without doubt I would recommend Pioneer plasma 43". I have had one for 2/3
years. Probably the best pictures I have ever seen in a home.

Mine cost £4.5K but they are about £2.5K now.

I concur
Ours is about 6 months old now and the picture is stunning.
HD is beyond compare and regular DTV still gets visitors remarking on
how superb the picture is.

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