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What is the best out there for around £2500? Would need to be wall mountable.
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40-50" LCD
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Sony X3000 series 
Why are you restricting this to LCD?
Personally with that budget I would get a Pioneer PDP-508XD plasma although you need to either buy the mountable speakers of have your own amp and speakers. You could get the 428XD (42inch) version and have about £6-700 left for the amp and speakers if required.
I have compared LCD v Plasma and for me there is no contest, plasma all the way.
Personally with that budget I would get a Pioneer PDP-508XD plasma although you need to either buy the mountable speakers of have your own amp and speakers. You could get the 428XD (42inch) version and have about £6-700 left for the amp and speakers if required.
I have compared LCD v Plasma and for me there is no contest, plasma all the way.
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What he said ^^
Plasmas rule for larger screen sizes. I don't care what What Hi-Fi magazine tells you. Trust your own eyes.
If you can, go to a proper a/v dealer.... not JL or Dixons. All they do is loop HD feeds, and seeing as the world is still 99% SD, that's what you'll be watching most of the time.
A decent dealer will take time to show you exactly what you can expect at home.
Plasmas rule for larger screen sizes. I don't care what What Hi-Fi magazine tells you. Trust your own eyes.
If you can, go to a proper a/v dealer.... not JL or Dixons. All they do is loop HD feeds, and seeing as the world is still 99% SD, that's what you'll be watching most of the time.
A decent dealer will take time to show you exactly what you can expect at home.
Go plasma even if you are gaming.....
(My girlfriend spend hours on top of hours gaming on my pioneer plasma with my PS3)
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Plasma's aren't typically "suited" for the gaming, that was his point.
For image quality try and demo the new Pioneer 50/60" Kuro. Fantastic.
Sony X3000 series
Noooo, X3500 series just replaced it, doesnt come in the different facia colours but tbh who the hell is gonna spend over £300 for abit of coloured plastic?
25000 contrast (albiet dynamic like most other sonys) 24p cinema support and sonys improved bravia chip.
Personally like someone else mentioned you can pick up a nice pioneer for the same price although it does have a downside. You cant use upscaled sources which are from whatever to 1080p as the panel wont support it. Its got pioneers own silly way of displaying 1080p which in fact isnt great. Picture quality on other sources in immense though.
If you dont want to go insanely daft with price you can pick up the 1080p panasonics (50 inch plasma in your price bracket) which is a seriously good performer, especially on freeview (compared this in my store with other brands and was gobsmacked)
You won't be able to hang it on a wall but if I had 2.5 grand to spend on a screen then I'd go for the Sony 70 inch SXRD,it's rear projection which doesn't seem to create much interest in this country,probably due to the sheer bulk,but if you've got the room I don't reckon you can beat the specification for the price.
70inch 1080p screen 2xHDMI inputs,2 component,3 scart(2rgb) Dsub(pc input) amongst others,2.5ms response time,10,000:1 contrast ratio.
5 grand on release,can now be had for slightly over 2 grand with a superb stand that will house a lot of AV gear.
Sorry if I sound like I'm trying to big it up but I've just bought one of the few remaining in the country!
Still not sure how i'll fit the thing in my living room yet,but at that price with a 12months interest free option I just couldn't resist.
70inch 1080p screen 2xHDMI inputs,2 component,3 scart(2rgb) Dsub(pc input) amongst others,2.5ms response time,10,000:1 contrast ratio.
5 grand on release,can now be had for slightly over 2 grand with a superb stand that will house a lot of AV gear.
Sorry if I sound like I'm trying to big it up but I've just bought one of the few remaining in the country!
Still not sure how i'll fit the thing in my living room yet,but at that price with a 12months interest free option I just couldn't resist.Without looking, is that the one that they are going on about over at AVforums that has all the colour blurring/smudging and therefore are really available until next year when they can fix them?
What you mean by pioneer plasma's don't support upscaled sources which are from whatever to 1080p.Its got pioneers own silly way of displaying 1080p which in fact isnt great.
My pioneer plasma will display 1080p in dot by dot mode at 24hz/50hz/60hz put a range of other modes (e.g full,zoom,4:3,wide)
My pioneer plasma supports the following res
720 (1440) x 576i@50 Hz
720 x 576p@50 Hz
1280 x 720p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080i@50 Hz
720 (1440) x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
720 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1280 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x 1080p@24 Hz
1920 x 1080p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080p@60 Hz
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What you mean by pioneer plasma's don't support upscaled sources which are from whatever to 1080p.Its got pioneers own silly way of displaying 1080p which in fact isnt great.
My pioneer plasma will display 1080p in dot by dot mode at 24hz/50hz/60hz put a range of other modes (e.g full,zoom,4:3,wide)
My pioneer plasma supports the following res
720 (1440) x 576i@50 Hz
720 x 576p@50 Hz
1280 x 720p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080i@50 Hz
720 (1440) x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
720 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1280 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x 1080p@24 Hz
1920 x 1080p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080p@60 Hz
yes but the OP said budget was arround £2500, the model you have is around £3500.
What you mean by pioneer plasma's don't support upscaled sources which are from whatever to 1080p.Its got pioneers own silly way of displaying 1080p which in fact isnt great.
My pioneer plasma will display 1080p in dot by dot mode at 24hz/50hz/60hz put a range of other modes (e.g full,zoom,4:3,wide)
My pioneer plasma supports the following res
720 (1440) x 576i@50 Hz
720 x 576p@50 Hz
1280 x 720p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080i@50 Hz
720 (1440) x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
720 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1280 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x 1080p@24 Hz
1920 x 1080p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080p@60 Hz
sure you have an LX series, we at the orange shirt shop dont sell those but the inferior PDP series which DONT accept 1080p upscaled sources but fit in his price range still
although the PDP range do support 1080p/24 which is the optimum for Blu-Ray.
This is a list of the Signals accepted by the pioneer 508xd (about £2500)
http://www.service.pioneer-eur.com/peeservice/instrmanuals.nsf/0/0BAB8764621F45E3C12573010029DC60/$File/ARE1475_PDP-508XD.pdf
720 (1440) x 576i@50 Hz
720 x 576p@50 Hz
1280 x 720p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080i@50 Hz
720 (1440) x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
720 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1280 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x [email protected] Hz/60 Hz
1920 x 1080p@24 Hz
1920 x 1080p@50 Hz
1920 x 1080p@60 Hz
The LX508D has dropped in price to £2999
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your not quite understanding what im saying. Yes the panel supports 1080p for native sources but it has problems with upscaling dvd players and freeview boxes with the same upscaling feature due to a problem with how it uses its HDMI connectors. a lot of people complain about the effect as being almost like a heat haze over a lot of the picture and a temporary solution is to disable the tv's film mode and dumb the colour and contrast rates down. Simple googling will show this information.
blueray is 1080p native not upscaled...
I'm getting confused, I have been reading that 1080p/24fps is said to be the best for watching films, especially via blu-ray.Its something to do with PAL being 25fps when true cinema films are shot at 24fps meaning a PAL film plays faster and looses quality..
yeah what I mean is blueray uses 1080p natively to display its picture as its source is already in that format to be displayed (1920x1080 pixels but progressive scan) whilst say a £60 philips dvd player with HDMI upscaling will take a 768x400 odd pixel source to 1080p res by upscaling it which is basically a form of antialiasing gone barmy so the dvd picture looks better than before on larger sets.
NTSC is filmed at 30FPS and that doesnt have a problem with 24p so i seriously doubt PAL being filmed at 25fps would either tbh