Cheapish Widescreen TV?

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Hi all,

The TV in my room (a cheap Bush 28" widescreen CRT) decided to blow up the other day, I think it's probably the line transformer so it will be pretty expensive to replace. The person I usually get to repair all my electrical things isn't around so I can't ask him either.

I'm not sure whether to go HD or not. I don't have Sky or an Xbox 360 or infact anything which uses HD so I think it will be wasted on me (I'd probably use it to upscale DVDs though).

At the moment all my video (xbox, freeview box, DVD player and laptop) is fed through my receiver and out into 5.1 so I don't need anything with great speakers.

Any recomendations? If I do go HDTV I hear Mirai are very good, but then I hear LCDs aren't great for standard non-HD feeds. I'm looking for something around 28-32". There's loads of these around and I can't decide :).

Budget is ~£400 for HD, <£200 if I go for a standard TV.


Cheers :)
 
chaparral said:
If your not really interested in having the lastest sleek looking flat TV (LCD/plasma)...

Then you should be able to pickup some great bargins on secondhand widescreen CRT....as there are so many people changing to lcd/plasma which makes 1000's of secondhand CRT's available..You should be able to pick up what wouldn't been one of the very highend toshiba or sony etc widescreen CRT very cheap...

That's what I'm thinking. I have a Sony Trinitron 32" which has a very nice picture so maybe I can find something like that for cheap now. I'll have a hunt :).
 
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