LCD TV

Jonners · 5 Jul 2007 at 18:28

Hey people

The time has come for my folks to get a HD Ready LCD as their 21" CRT tv kicked the bucket last evening.

We've been looking at Samsung and Sharp panels, I could have bagged a 37" 1080p Sharp Aquos, glass stand and dvd recorder for £1050~ last evening but the electrical appliance store runs one aerial between 100 tv's or something daft, the salesman tried switching to a better connection but the images on freeview looked very pixellated :confused:

Is the Sharp Aqous a tv to avoid? Or is it really good? I have a Samsung R74 myself, I may be biased but I think it's excellent...and would recommend one to my folks...

Kristoph · 5 Jul 2007 at 19:44

My parents have a Phillips 32" 32PF7531D and I've been pretty impressed with the quality of the screen on it. Was around £600.

Jonners · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:24

I want the best for them though, 1080p is a must tbh.

pieman109 · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:26

I've just replaced my samsung 32" R74 (without DVB) for the panasonic TX32lxd70 and I can safely safe its a lot better image quality wise than the samsung (this is subjective though), got two HDMI sockets, internal freeview, etc. Nothing at all wrong with any of the samsung screens though and they are a bit cheaper if thats an issue (I personally think the samsung is a better looking screen than the panasonic so thats probably a factor too.

squiffy · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:28

That Sharp has lots of problems, banding, buzzing, backlight humming. I had two Sharp 42" XD1's for a couple of weeks.
There's the Samsung 50" M86/M87, I have one. Only a couple of minor problems, I think just firmware related.

Panasonic don't produce >32" LCD, kinda daft really.

Kristoph · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:34

Tupac said:
I want the best for them though, 1080p is a must tbh.

So I take it they have a HD DVD player? Or Sky HD?

Jonners · 5 Jul 2007 at 20:57

mp3kla said:
So I take it they have a HD DVD player? Or Sky HD?

One thing at a time...

norm · 5 Jul 2007 at 21:12

Getting a 1080P TV now is not only going to cost you more but the truth is I doubt you'll be watching very much 1080P content any time soon.

You might as well buy a good quality 720P set for less. And by the time 1080P content is more commonplace you could easily sell and upgrade to a model which is better than any 1080P model available now.

norm · 5 Jul 2007 at 21:19

squiffy said:
Panasonic don't produce >32" LCD, kinda daft really.

Panasonic are firm supporters of plasma technology.

http://www.panasonic.com/consumer_electronics/plasma_central/whattolook4.asp

Jonners · 7 Jul 2007 at 09:55

They've decided on a 37" Samsung M87 that's 1080p along with a Samsung dvd-recorder with 1080p upscaling hdmi playback for £1099

The screen supposedly has an 8000:1 contrast, is this true? Or just marketing hype?

I guess they wont be able to do better?