Electrical shops - such bad images?

Andr3w · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:23

Hey all, when i was out today i went into the two big electrical retailers to have a look at a PX80 (as i am going to order one tomorrow).

I was shocked to see that some of the displays they have set up are just terrible. There was a £1400 panasonic and i've seen a better picture from a 10year old tv!

Why do they do this? it has made me doubt buying the 37"px80 because i saw one in the shop and the image was horrid, it was blurry and had no sharpness to it what so-ever!

if i was manager of a shop like this i would be wanting to get them all hooked up to something decent to try and sell them!

Pigeon_Killer · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:30

Andr3w said:
Why do they do this?

Commission

Andr3w · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:31

What do you mean? Is there a reason all the samsungs had a good picture on them...hmmm!

Tell me the px80 is good lol

Pigeon_Killer · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:39

Andr3w said:
What do you mean? Is there a reason all the samsungs had a good picture on them...hmmm!

They've had their pictures configured to make them look better so they sell more. I think Samsung have some sort of deal with DSG. My dads A656 looked far better than my PX80 in-store but once configured there was only one winner :cool:

-Ad- · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:40

Their excuse is 'We leave them in out of box settings so people can compare them all equally'......... www.CONFUUUUUSED.com

The lighting in stores is normally too bright so washes out the image, dynamic mode is on eady to burn customers retinas, and sharpness is cranked up. Horrible to us but average consumer who knows nothing will go 'OMG radioactive green football pitch look at that colour'

The px80 is ace

kingy666 · 31 Jan 2009 at 16:56

Don't let it put you off the PX80, it is best bang for buck plasma.

Grimley · 31 Jan 2009 at 23:20

Andr3w said:
Why do they do this? it has made me doubt buying the 37"px80 because i saw one in the shop and the image was horrid, it was blurry and had no sharpness to it what so-ever!

if i was manager of a shop like this i would be wanting to get them all hooked up to something decent to try and sell them!

All are hooked up either by component or standard SD feed. None of them I saw were connected by HDMI or DVi or VGA (all of which can do HD) though component can do HD. All these big shops must have a decree from their Head office to run the usual sales propaganda videos for people who don't know or don't care about PQ or HD (which is a fair amount from my experience)

Wouldn't happen in my shop if I was still running it. I made sure the TV's on display had the best signal available. If they didn't when I sold a TV I would demo a DVD on it so it would give the buyer an idea of the PQ.

(no HD/blu-ray/LCD/plasmas in my days as a small independent electrical retail manager)