The VISUAL part of AV

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Originally posted by Don Atkinson:
_The VISUAL part of AV_

Simple question.

What is the best visual system to buy.

I know!!, "what do I mean by 'Best' ?"

Well, I'm not going to spend £20k+ because a) I don't have £20k + to blow; and b) in a fast-changing market-place, this year's chick is soon going to be last year's hag.

Do I go for a CRT TV; or a plasma; or an LCD; or a projector (DLP v LCD)...or?

I suppose that I really want a 150" TV set for under £2.5k, then I could watch high-speed action-movies with incredible detail, enjoying the "big-screen" experience in daylight/tungsten-light convenience.

So, to be a bit more realistic, what do you suggest in the meantime?

Cheers

Don

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i would rate high a conventional good tvset.
but it has n o t the size of a beamer piicture.
size is very essential for "cinema feeling".
Plasma is worse than television and smaller than beamer pictures.
i would rate on first place beamer picture on a qulity screen in a darkened room.
My personal choicehilps bogart dlp,oray screen and pioneer dvd.
the reasonshilps bogart has a very good scaling processor inside (they call it crystal clear)and has nowadays a really affordable price (think its 1350 euro)imo also very natural colours and a "deep"black.
oray screen is very "thick" and therefore i could fix it easely and without a frame on
the wall with an carpet tape.(and without any vissible waves)
pioneer player (350) has a good picture,rgb output,and plays inthe codefree version any dvd without reading problems.
so the things together cost nearby 2000 euros.
enough budget left for a cheap "information"tv set.
only problem.beamers work only in rooms without daylights.(for me no problem).

best plasma tv:to my eyes definitly the new
pioneer 43 inchs and the new pioner 50 inches.
(435 and 504).
b and o has also good but not affordable plasmas.
loewe is nice designed an "easy to use" but:
picture is not as good as pioneer and lowe plasmas hqave very often technical faults and problems.
and beware of those cheap and non hdtv capable
"no name" plasmas.(often bad picture).
O.J.

I finally came to a decision today and ordered a 42" Panasonic plasma panel (TH42PW7B). I was almost tempted by the higher spec Pioneer 435 but in the end I decided the extra cost wasn't really justified on something that will only be used in the role as the day-to-day TV. It won't be used as part of a home cinema system as I already have a projector for serious movie watching.

Should be here in a couple of days but work commitments mean I probably won't get it up and running properly for a week or two. I'm planning a custom install with a home-made bracket into an existing cabinet so should give me something to do over the Christmas Hols.

Allan

I......ordered a 42" Panasonic plasma panel (TH42PW7B).......that will only be used in the role as the day-to-day TV

....nice tv!!! both the TH42PW7B (or the TH42PW6B) have crossed my mind as a tv set

what would you recomend to capture the tv data and send it (and dvd data) to the plasma screen?

Cheers

Don

Best DVD is gonna be something with DVI-D or HDMI. If you mean to record off SKY via RGB then a Panasonic (Or simular) DVD/HDD recorder WITH component progresive scan output is what I use and am very pleased, but no HDD recorders seem to do digital output.

Don,

I'm going to be using a Sky digibox feeding into a Scart to VGA converter and feeding this into the VGA port on the plasma.

Scart to VGA Convertor

Short of using some form of scaler/deinterlacer such as the DVDO iScan, this will provide the best quality TV feed into the display.

Allan

We have a dedicated home cinema room with a DLP projector and 8ft screen. It can be used as a normal tv (via Sky) but in practice most "normal" tv viewing is done on conventional sets in other rooms.