Jamz3k

i just bought a pioneer pdp436-rxe, and it looks the biz granted it doesnt look as good as crt does with dodgy sources such as freeview, but i knew that before buying and im chuffed the xbox 360 and dvd's have never looked so good!

davegtt

Wrong, your expensive TV is just showing you how poor a signal you have, put a well set up DVD on a plasma against a CRT playing the same DVD and the plasma will show the better picture, simply because its a superior piece of technology.

p1mark

Says you. and you alone. But you are a bit of a throwback lets face it?

Say you buy a new, high power, double electric oven and plug it in to the normal 240V switch ring and it pops the breakers - do you upgrade the source or take it back to the dealers saying its not as good as the old one?

Leslie

Not a very powerful argument PSL, you have been informed by a few people that dealers usually hvae analogue picture problems because of a poor aerial system and co interference between all the TV's in the shop. I can hear RF interference on my Ham radio from a surprising distance from just one TV line output believe me. Your aerial system at home is probably a lot better too.

Quite honestly, the picture on my Plasma is quite outstanding, good enough to stop me worrying about spending ridiculous amounts on HD TV with its limited viewing just at the moment, and is is truthfully better than my 29" trinitron was, as good a picturs as it was.

Hope that helps.

Les

The Snug Rhino

is this not like saying my horse and cart runs fine on hay so i dont want one of them car things because it would mean upgrading my fuel source?


why would TV makers be bothered about ensuring old style signals work well on their new sets?

pslewis

BUT THERE AREN'T ANY HD/GOOD FEEDS AVAILABLE FREE YET!!

Pete

p1mark

SO WHAT THE **** ARE YOU BANGING ON ABOUT THEN! JUST KEEP THE CRT IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE A FOOKIN TIGHTWAD!

Mark

pslewis

Tightwad??

Tightwad??

I went out last weekend to spend £1500+ on a TV!!!

Just because I came away with disappointment and therefore didn't buy an inferior Plasma/LCD doesn't make me a tightwad!

And I would buy a 36" CRT if I could only find one!

Pete

p1mark

You are a tightwad cos you will not splash out on a decent signal feed

alistair

LOL

I can just imagine PSL trying to stuff hay into his fuel filler

pslewis

Like I said earlier in the thread .... I am NOT prepared to give SKY one penny!!

Pete

shug

http://search.ebay.co.uk/36-crt_W0QQ...fltZ9QQfromZR8


that was really difficult

pslewis

I don't touch Flea-bay ....

I want somewhere like John Lewis ......... try that if you think yourself so clever

Pete

Jamz3k

PSlewis for ur budget i suggest visiting a Richer Sounds Store and ask to see a Panasonic TH42PX60 on analogue tv, it looks very good and i believe its about 1400 sheets!

pslewis

Interesting, thanks .... 42" is a bit too big - but, it may prove that they can cope with a normal TV signal - but, movement will still prove too difficult for the screen to process I would imagine

Pete

ScoobLou

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You had an eye test lately Pete

pslewis

20-20 Vision with my specs

Pete

ScoobLou

iTrader: (21)

That rules that out then

pslewis

What out?? What do you want me to have good vision for?

I rely on experience to find my way around

Pete

ScoobLou

iTrader: (21)

You can prove it when you come round to have a bit of my mum, I mean her pie

pslewis

STOP IT NOW!!

Pete

ScoobLou

iTrader: (21)

Why I have a nice bum

pslewis

Good god ..............

Pete

Robin Mullan

I thought this thread was meant to be about LCDs/Plasmas.
Not hairy backsides.

GC8

She's a '****-hungry **** ©'.....


© Bubba Po 2006

Diesel

What is this all about? There are so few user picture settings on a panel screen and I would imagine VERY few internal tweaks on these digitally based devices compared to an old CRT? On a CRT device there are issues like convergence, pin cushion distortion, linearity etc etc where you could get the back off and have a good tweak[ and a few belts to keep you on your toes!!] In the TV industry we use light level meters to line up CRT monitors so as they all look the same, but you dont need this to set domestic brightness/contrast/colour on an individual set. If you cant set those by eye then you are hardly gonna be the type who is bothered about grey blacks are you!

Excuse my ignorance in this matter, but do these chaps also change the gas in plasmas?

D

pslewis

The people who buy in some help to set up their TVs are the same people who pay someone £600 to change some DATA in their vehicle ECUs!!

Fools and their money!! Its always been the same ... idiots are removed of their cash too easily

Pete

pslewis

Anyway ...... been to a 'specialist' shop who have all kinds of feeds into their TVs.

Must say that the pictures looked better than I had see previously, however ....

Once I had commented upon the poor pictures on Analogue and Freeview the salesman admitted that the screens have a way to go to match CRT in picture quality on standard signals as inputs.

He also said that technology is changing so fast that spending £1,000's now is probably folly ..... he said, imagine if you bought 12 months ago?? You would be feeling really sick now.

And I guess thats why a few on here are so pissed off that it clouds their judgement .... they so desperately WANT their picture to be good that they delude themselves Sad

Pete

PG

My LCD TV picture is a lot better thwn my last TV...Fact! Case closed!

pslewis

Thats as maybe ............... you clearly had a **** TV before, so the LCD is an improvement.

I invest in the best, so when I change it needs to be better

Pete