~40" TV recommendation

Alex53

Alex53

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Been looking at 40" to 42" TVs for my living room. Will mainly watch TV (duh) and movies through an HTPC.

As for requirements not that many. Obviously full HD is a must, but also the digital tuner has to be DVB-C (not DVB-T only. Long story short thats the standard used in Gibraltar). I'm not into 3D (makes me uncomfortable), and I'm not interested in SmartTV stuff as I'll have a PC hooked to to the TV anyway.

Up to now the 40" Samsung D5000 looks ok and its £500~, but would be nice to see what you peeps recommend :)
 
Umm. I'm happy :)

It's British in many ways (education, institutions, official language, similar laws, red double decker buses, bobbies, cornish pasties, fish and chips, currency is pounds and we are not in Schengen) but with the weather and many other things are mediterranean, like food. For curiosities, we have wild apes (the only apes not in captivity in Europe), and our airport runway crosses a road. As in the lights go red, traffic stops and a plane lands, then they go green again.

It has all the advantages of being a small place (3 square miles) and also the disadvantages.

One disadvantage for example is we are so small and insignificant that filling forms online or buying online is often a problem because shops might not deliver here, or even if they would their online form doesnt list us as a destination, or demands a post code (which we dont have). iTunes? Not for us, we have to basically lie about where we live or no iTunes. That kind of thing.

A sad event last week was to find out that OCuk, which has delivered to Gibraltar for the whole decade that I've been a customer for has apparently changed to only deliver small individual components :/
 
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Arrr some interesting insights there, thanks.

Have you always lived there? Is it hard for locals to buy property etc because of people moving there?
 
I was born here, lived just across the border in Spain for 4 years when I was a kid, and lived in Wales for 3 years (University).

Housing is always an issue in a 3 square mile place. Most homes are flats rather than houses, and a lot of the newer housing estates are on land reclaimed from the harbour. Some opt to buy a property in Spain and commute. You get more for your money there, but crossing the frontier daily is sometimes an issue. Its a big traffic bottleneck, and it gets even worse when political issues with Spain go through bad patches.

I wouldnt say locals find it hard to buy property because of people moving here. The luxury housing maybe, because many foreigners are rich people investing here, but government housing is fairly decent and for locals only, and a lot of the newer developments are also restricted to locals, or at least people that have lived and worked here for a while, and there's even co-ownership schemes where you just buy half your flat and the government owns the other half.

Main issue for locals to settle in Gibraltar is usually career driven. We mostly study in UK universities. If you go and study archeology or to be a vet, well theres like 2 of each here so probably no vacancies in your field until they retire. Lawyers and accountants though, we seem to absorb more and more.
 
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Up to now the 40" Samsung D5000 looks ok and its £500~, but would be nice to see what you peeps recommend :)
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I got the C5000 for £399 when Richer Sounds had it on sale. Not far off the D5000 (same TV but the D is this years model) which I looked at at the same time, so I would say the D5000 is a safe bet if that is where you budget sits.
 
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