New TV for Xbox One / Xbox 360?

Probably a slight touch more but 32" samsung(1080p) LCD is in that range. John lewis would give you 5year warranty on it too.
 
i would go second hand and try and get a panasonic plasma.

i sold a 42" pz85B for £135 earlier this year.

that would stomp all over any brand new £250 tv, in fact it stomps all over £500 brand new tv's too.

bare in mind panny plasma's are built to last 30 years before their brightness halves under normal use.

therefore you don't need to worry about warranty, if it's lasted this long it should have zero issues, just test it before you buy obviously.
 
Thanks for th advice.

These days you see 32inch 40inch TV's etc at silly prices (£200). Is the quality of these types of tvs generally really bad?
 
£ for £ plasma is 2-3 times better than LCD.

you won't find any brand new plasma's for £250.

so basically LCD is the only option.

second hand though you can pick up like i said a 42" PZ85B for under £150 which originally retailed for £1400 ish when brand new.

comparing a brand new £250 LCD with a plasma which cost £1400 brand new 5 years ago, which bare in mind £ for £ plasma is 2-3 times better means that even with newer technology, old plasma's still beat new LCD's hands down.

then you have to remember plasma's are better at motion processing, input lagg, etc. which makes them even better for gaming.

the only downside is Image Retention and £20-£40 extra per year in electricity bills, depending on your useage.

i'm assuming an extra £20 a year in electricity isn't going to financially cripple you so let's look at the IR downside. so long as you use varied content you should be fine, like also watch TV, movies, etc on the same set or not continually play the same game with the same menu or HUD system.

basically static images used continuously on a plasma are bad.

with varied content though it's not an issue, so for me it's not a huge problem, yes i do get IR from watching stuff like Sky Sports 1 HD all day long on a saturday or sunday due to the logo being constantly on screen but after a while it will go away so long as i stay away from that channel.

basically variety is key, the more you mix it up the less chance of getting IR, keep continuously watching one thing though and you get IR.
 
Tom_D said:
Thanks for th advice.

These days you see 32inch 40inch TV's etc at silly prices (£200). Is the quality of these types of tvs generally really bad?
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Exactly.....silly prices

There's always an opportunity to take some sales by undercutting the competition. The question you should ask though is what's been cut out or compromised to get to that point. You see, when all of the manufactures have their budget TVs produced in the same low wage factories in China or Turkey then no-one has any real advantage. So when labour costs are at a minimum, and production efficiencies are totally maximised, then what's left? The only answer is to cut quality.

Put yourself in the shoes of a manufacturer of cheap TVs. You'd do everything you can to source the lowest cost components. You're not so bothered if it's a bit of a lottery as to who is supplying panels from week to week. You know you'll never get a sniff of the good stuff that goes in to the better quality branded sets. But every now and then you might get some older generation LG panels instead of the usual cheap rubbish you buy and then woo-hoo, it's like Christmas. You stand on the dung heap of products like a cockerel and crow out loudly "Our TVs have LG panels" and hope to God no-one with any knowledge says "As yes, but which LG panels?"

Next comes the electronic components; resistors, capacitors, diodes, semiconductors etc. Okay, so the supplier doesn't make stuff good enough to pass the quality tests for the major TV manufacturers. And fine, their failure rate a bit higher and tolerances not quite so strictly adhered to.... Who cares? It's a cheap disposable TV. Besides, it's not going to come back and bite you in the ass because you sell it with a no-returns discount that means you pass the buck to Tesco or whoever buys the latest container load. So what if one in every 20 TVs fails in the first year. It won't stop the bulk buyers coming back for more... it's a cheap telly that they buy direct from the factory so they make a few extra percent margin. They just shove it out the door on their hapless customers and trust that consumer greed will win the day.

There's no magic to the TV market, and there's no "hooker with a heart of gold" manufacturer making fantastic sets for a fraction of the price of the big brands. The truth is stark and quite brutal. Cheap sets are cheap because they're compromised to hell.
 
Psycho Sonny said:
you heard wrong

LCD is worse for ghosting, maybe your confusing with phosphor trails, which is completely different and i aint ever seen them on either of my top end plasma's, whereas i have seen ghosting on a £2K+ LCD.
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Yeah but Plasma is much more susceptible to burn in, leaving ghost images and RFI.

I've played a 360 on a mates top end plasma and it felt awful compared to a low input lag Samsung LCD.
 
Suarez7 said:
Yeah but Plasma is much more susceptible to burn in, leaving ghost images and RFI.

I've played a 360 on a mates top end plasma and it felt awful compared to a low input lag Samsung LCD.
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burn in - no such thing nowadays :o

image retention - yes it is a problem but not so much with varied content

ghost images? i suppose your referring to IR and not ghosting? because ghosting does not happen on plasma's.

low input lagg lcd's are rare, well tv's anyway not pc monitors, i believe sony has a model which is good otherwise 95 times out of 100 plasma will be better of input lagg.

if a top end plasma felt awful then it must not have been set up correctly (game mode), or connected up properly, because for gaming they are superior at everything apart from image retention.

avforums has lots of info on the above should you wish to do some research.
 
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