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Help!

Looking at a plasma screen telly or a decent widescreen, but I cant decide....

I can get a very good 36" widescreen for £1600 ish online & a decent home cinema kit for say £600...

But the attraction of a Plasma is still there

Sell me either way please lol cos I cant make up my damned mind

Cheers!

alistair

If it's going in a corner, get a CRT, if it's going in the middle of a wall then get a plasma.

C

its for a corner

mrklaw

get a CRT. The depth of the things is masked by being in a corner, plus you need some depth for the VCR/DVD etc.

You could always look at projectors. You can get a panasonic AE200 for about £750, and knock up a screen for £30 from blackout material. Combined with your home cinema, that'd give you an 8ft widescreen for less than £1500 all in.

Its surprising how cheap projector setups are.

Scooby96

Go LCD

jameswrx

iTrader: (4)

Plasma pictures I've seen look wooly compared to my Wega

Hanley

Get an LCD

C

looks like a decent widescreen then

Went to look at a Panasonic today as everyone was raving about it & think I will be buying it

Diesel

mrklaw - you seem to know about projectors mate!

Really fancy a cheap one in the bedroom - would be a working in a dark room and would need only RGB (TV RGB not laptop RGB) as an input - 16:9 mind. Have an audio amp and speakers already.

Could I just paint the chimney breast between the wardrobes a nice matt white, hang it above my pillow and get projecting

Cheers for any advice!

D

MJW

Before you decide, have a look at a Philips with Pixel Plus and Digital Natural Motion. It's probably the best picture CRT you're gonna get. They do them in 32" Nicam (which is better for people with a seperate surround setup) or a 36" Dolby Digital which has all the gubbins thrown in.
I saw these at the Home Entertainment exhibition and they were miles better than anything on the Sony stand.





[Edited by MJW - 9/13/2003 7:06:47 PM]

specialx

plasmas are fine but very blocky when sat in a living room, LCD very good very expensive!, stick with a 36 vega sony NS200 very nice crt!

Guinness

iTrader: (1)

I've got a Phillips 23" lcd tv in my bedroom and the picture is really good,it also has a built in radio which is a nice feature.Alan.............

Carl2

Go for the plasma and get flat panel speakers to go with it.
A corner isn't the best place for a telly if you're going to go for a full 5.1 Audio set up. You need to think about where you're going to put the speakers too. (unless you stick to the tellys own ones)

paulr

CRT......once the novelty of a Plasma has worn off you'll have ended up paying xxx quid extra just to save a few inches in space.

Unless space is at a premuim.