LCD or Plasma?

In article , Agamemnon
writes

"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Agamemnon wrote:

Don't expect anything to last more than 5 years. You'll be lucky if
you get 3 years normal viewing, 12 hours a day.

The UK average is 24hrs viewing per week, so that's 3.5 hours per day.

Anybody with more than half a brain, and a life, probably watches no
more than a couple of hours per day, so according to your figures
expect a lifetime of 15-30 years for the average punter ?

Yer, and what about the other 10 hours its on in the background while
your waiting for the programmes you want to watch to come on, or other
people are watching it, or your watching DVD's on it?

I have never waited ten hours for a programme to come on with the TV
switched on, I watch DVDs instead of the c**p programmes, whilst we
don't watch all the same all the same programmes or even every day, an
average of a couple or three hours per day is about right.
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Ian G8ILZ
There are always two people in every pictu the photographer and the viewer.
~Ansel Adams

I thought most of the Bravias (like many other brands of HDTVs on the
market) have LG-manufactured panels in them? Though from what I've been
told that's gradually changing...

On 5 Nov, 10:51, "Agamemnon" wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message

...

Agamemnon wrote:

Don't expect anything to last more than 5 years. You'll be lucky if you
get 3 years normal viewing, 12 hours a day.

The UK average is 24hrs viewing per week, so that's 3.5 hours per day.

Anybody with more than half a brain, and a life, probably watches no more
than a couple of hours per day, so according to your figures expect a
lifetime of 15-30 years for the average punter ?

Yer, and what about the other 10 hours its on in the background while your
waiting for the programmes you want to watch to come on, or other people are
watching it, or your watching DVD's on it?

How many people actually *seriously* watch TV like that?
I turn on my TV when:
1. There's a programme on I want to watch
2. there's a programme that i've recorded that I want to watch
3. There's a DVD I want to watch.
The day it becomes something that is 'on in the background' is the day
I have one of my brains removed.

Doc

In article .com, Mark Carver
wrote:
Yer, and what about the other 10 hours its on in the background while your
waiting for the programmes you want to watch to come on, or other people are
watching it, or your watching DVD's on it?

"..on in the background..". No, that's not the way I use TV. I check
the listings, set my PVR appropriately, switch on the TV and sit down
and watch the programme (or a DVD). When the programme's *finished I
switch off again. Call me old fashioned if you want....

I must be old fashioned too then. Nice to know I'm not alone.

Maybe it's something to do with being able to remember a time before television,
and then then a time when television was only available for part of the day, and
being brought up by parents who had lived through the forced frugality of
wartime and always switched things off when they weren't needed.

Recently I picked up a young relative's iPod to look at it, and my surprise at
seeing its little screen spring to life without any deliberate command from me
was compounded by the discovery that it didn't even seem to *have* an off
switch. Apparently if you just abandon them they switch themselves off. What
kind of a lesson in frugality is that? No wonder today's kids never switch
anything else off either.

Rod.

Dr Hfuhruhurr wrote:
On 5 Nov, 10:51, "Agamemnon" wrote:

Yer, and what about the other 10 hours its on in the background
while your waiting for the programmes you want to watch to come on,
or other people are watching it, or your watching DVD's on it?

How many people actually *seriously* watch TV like that?
I turn on my TV when:
1. There's a programme on I want to watch
2. there's a programme that i've recorded that I want to watch
3. There's a DVD I want to watch.
The day it becomes something that is 'on in the background' is the day
I have one of my brains removed.

Doc

I think you'll find Agamemnon already has.

Indeed, that's one of the things that *really* annoys me about iPods.
I'd like to conserve its battery by turning it off when not listening...
Oh wait, I can't. Great. I guess that's why I still have my trusty
iRiver H140

Things like its colour screen are largely irrelevant, a nice clear
monochrome screen with a backlight works just as well, again it's a
purely aesthetic thing which uses more battery than it needs to. Who
honestly watches TV shows or music videos on their iPod? (barring the
Touch)

That said, they're doing something right, because you can get 24 hours'
playtime* from a single charge, which beats my old player by about 3:1.

* I'm betting the quoted figure is a best-of-10 average, with files at
128kbps AAC low complexity and all the power settings turned to their
bare minimum and the volume at 60%, but even so that's good going.

In message ,
Roderick Stewart Proclaimed from the
tallest tower:

In article .com,
Mark Carver wrote:
Yer, and what about the other 10 hours its on in the background
while your waiting for the programmes you want to watch to come on,
or other people are watching it, or your watching DVD's on it?

"..on in the background..". No, that's not the way I use TV. I check
the listings, set my PVR appropriately, switch on the TV and sit down
and watch the programme (or a DVD). When the programme's finished I
switch off again. Call me old fashioned if you want....

I must be old fashioned too then. Nice to know I'm not alone.

Maybe it's something to do with being able to remember a time before
television, and then then a time when television was only available
for part of the day, and being brought up by parents who had lived
through the forced frugality of wartime and always switched things
off when they weren't needed.

Recently I picked up a young relative's iPod to look at it, and my
surprise at seeing its little screen spring to life without any
deliberate command from me was compounded by the discovery that it
didn't even seem to *have* an off switch. Apparently if you just
abandon them they switch themselves off. What kind of a lesson in
frugality is that? No wonder today's kids never switch anything else
off either.

Rod.

You can turn an iPod off by holding the (from memory) play/pause button down
for 5 seconds...
Otherwise (assuming it's not playing a song) it turns off after 5 minutes or
so (configurable in the setup).

:-)


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Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)

thanks to everyone for the observations.


mike o'sullivan wrote:
Buying a new 42" tv soon and can not decide between the two
technologies. Any opinions would be welcome.

"Dr Hfuhruhurr" wrote in message
ups.com...
On 5 Nov, 10:51, "Agamemnon" wrote:
"Mark Carver" wrote in message

...

Agamemnon wrote:

Don't expect anything to last more than 5 years. You'll be lucky if
you
get 3 years normal viewing, 12 hours a day.

The UK average is 24hrs viewing per week, so that's 3.5 hours per day.

Anybody with more than half a brain, and a life, probably watches no
more
than a couple of hours per day, so according to your figures expect a
lifetime of 15-30 years for the average punter ?

Yer, and what about the other 10 hours its on in the background while
your
waiting for the programmes you want to watch to come on, or other people
are
watching it, or your watching DVD's on it?

How many people actually *seriously* watch TV like that?
I turn on my TV when:
1. There's a programme on I want to watch
2. there's a programme that i've recorded that I want to watch
3. There's a DVD I want to watch.
The day it becomes something that is 'on in the background' is the day
I have one of my brains removed.

Switching the TV on an off all the time is bad for it.


Doc

Brian Gaff wrote:
I'd rather have liked to read this document, just so I'd know what the
differences were, but it seems its not an accessible pdf.

Oh well.

Brian

Hi Brian,

I take it's because the document is written with Acrobat 5.0?

I can convert it to a word document if that's any help for you.

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Adrian C