Plasma TVs and burn-in

"Adrian C" wrote in message
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Mike Thomas wrote:
nospam wrote:

"Clive" wrote:
I wouldn't bother with power hungry and OLD technology such as Plasma.
Tell your mate to get a new LED Samsung TV. Pictures are far better
than
LCD and way better than Plasma.
Samsung 'LED' TVs are LCD. The rest of your comments are similarly
accurate.

That's cos "Clive" is the Tiscali Idiot. That's right -- this groups
*other* personality disordered poster.


Interestingly "Clive" was [1] a self-proclaimed expert on OLED domination,
and with that "knowledge" would have known the difference ...

[1] Has today morphed into "T Williams" posting from eternal-september.

The Eternal Tiscali Idiot ...

It's funny how there are always misfits, coming and going. The vast majority
of people act normally, but the odd one causes all sorts of trouble, or
tries to. I suppose newsgroup people are like custormers. I've always said
that 99% of people are sane and reasonable . . . but that leaves the other
1% of course. With customers the trick is to sniff out the nutters early,
and disengage. With newsgroup people there's no need to sniff them out
early, but once they are revealed in their true colours I suppose the best
thing is to ignore them.

Bill

"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
Clive wrote:
I wouldn't bother with power hungry and OLD technology such as Plasma.
Tell your mate to get a new LED Samsung TV. Pictures are far better than
LCD and way better than Plasma.

Err, the Samsung 'LED' set is still an LCD. And the pictures aren't
universally 'better' than other LCD displays.

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I wonder if the LED source will remain a truer colour for longer than a
fluorescent / cold cathode or whatever?

Mike Henry wrote:

Is that before or after OLED (genuine question)? I've been holding out for
OLED but then I read about LASER TVs with their much wider gamuts.

I'm just holding out until my CRT dies. _Then_ I'll see what is out there!

Andy

On Aug 5, 8:51*pm, Andy Champ wrote:
Mike Henry wrote:

Is that before or after OLED (genuine question)? I've been holding out for
OLED but then I read about LASER TVs with their much wider gamuts.

I'm just holding out until my CRT dies. *_Then_ I'll see what is out there!

Andy

My CRT died. I got a Plasma and i'm really happy with it.

In article ,
Mike wrote:
I'm just holding out until my CRT dies. _Then_ I'll see what is out there!

Andy

My CRT died. I got a Plasma and i'm really happy with it.

My CRT hasn't died, but it's going to a good home. Following the purchase of a
flat screen in order to release more space in my living room, the CRT is on
Ebay. Astonishingly, bidding started on the first day (even more astonishingly
than the fact that bidding started at all actually), so I know I'm going to get
more than my advertising costs, and I won't have to suffer the near-physical
distress of discarding a perfectly good working telly as rubbish.

The only thing that bothers me about the flat screen is that the picture is a
fraction of a second behind the sound unless I use the grotty built-in
loudspeakers. The delayed audio doesn't seem to be brought out to any external
connectors, so I've had to make another purchase of an external audio delay to
correct it again.

Rod.
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Roderick Stewart writes
In article ,
Mike wrote:
I'm just holding out until my CRT dies. _Then_ I'll see what is out there!

Andy

My CRT died. I got a Plasma and i'm really happy with it.

My CRT hasn't died, but it's going to a good home. Following the purchase of a
flat screen in order to release more space in my living room, the CRT is on
Ebay. Astonishingly, bidding started on the first day (even more astonishingly
than the fact that bidding started at all actually), so I know I'm
going to get
more than my advertising costs, and I won't have to suffer the near-physical
distress of discarding a perfectly good working telly as rubbish.

Good man. I have to confess that, at the insistence of my wife, I
eventually took a more-or-less perfectly-well-working [1] Sony to the
local dump / recycling centre.

[1] On pressing the mains on/off button, it very occasionally didn't
start up correctly, and required a re-press.

The only thing that bothers me about the flat screen is that the picture is a
fraction of a second behind the sound unless I use the grotty built-in
loudspeakers. The delayed audio doesn't seem to be brought out to any external
connectors, so I've had to make another purchase of an external audio delay to
correct it again.

That's a bad design. If that is a known 'feature', in the set-up menu, I
would have expected there to be some on-board adjustment. Care to name
and shame?
--
Ian

In article , Ian Jackson wrote:
The only thing that bothers me about the flat screen is that the picture is a
fraction of a second behind the sound unless I use the grotty built-in
loudspeakers. The delayed audio doesn't seem to be brought out to any external
connectors, so I've had to make another purchase of an external audio delay to
correct it again.

That's a bad design. If that is a known 'feature', in the set-up menu, I
would have expected there to be some on-board adjustment. Care to name
and shame?

It's one of the new 7000 series Samsung LED-illuminated TVs. It cost an obscene
amount of money but looks beautiful on the wall and makes my living room seem
twice the size thanks to the absence of the CRT on its floor stand. I expect it
to last me a very long time. Currently showing RGB external sourced via SCART as
a straight replacement for the CRT, it can apparently also show HD, should I ever
decide there are any movies that are worth purchasing a blu-ray player for.

As well as the audio ouput from the SCART, there is an optical digital output,
but I haven't got anything that can use it so don't know whether this is delayed
or undelayed. It baffles me why they would think anyone would want an out of sync
audio feed at all. I can deal with this, but it seems daft to have to buy an
external delay unit when the necessary electronics is built in, but inaccessible.
I don't know if this is the standard arrangement or is special to this TV.

Rod.
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Bob Latham wrote:

My Sony CRT died. I got a Sony LCD (oh the shame of it) But I'm really
happy with it and prefer it to the CRT.


I'm sure I'd prefer a nice big flat set, which the BBC wouldn't insist
on feeding cropped pictures.

Whether I'd prefer it enough to justify the cost is another matter. And
if I wait 'til the last moment I won't feel _quite_ as bad over the new
technology that makes my new TV obsolete the next month.

Andy

Alan Pemberton wrote:

The BBC sends cropped pictures? How so? Do you mean in the sense of
cropping 21:9-ish films to 16:9, etc?


Most 4:3 originals are cropped top-and-bottom to 14:9 for analogue and
16:9 for DTV transmission. I suspect the 14:9 is the middle 14 of the
16, so it's cropped both ways.

Andy