Wait for 1080, wait until after next Xmas.
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Plasma or LCD TV...which is best?
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Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
threadeds website, and here's my blog.
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That's the model I bought scooter, before I took it back and got this instead:Originally posted by scooterscotmy mistake actually meant 5000:01, who remembers those numbers off the top of their head, i i.
anyway it not marketing hype it manufacturers specifications
http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProdu...ory=TVP+LCD+TV
If you look at the Sony spec's though you'll see that the contrast ratio you mention is the so called 'dynamic' contrast, where the backlight has to constantly change to make the image darker/brighter. At any single moment though it's not possible to have a higher contrast rate than the static figure quoted (1300:1) - which even then some say is still to high - because it's impossible for the backlight to be at two different levels at the same time.
In case you didn't know the reasons the spec's are similar is because the LCD panels are identical and from the same factory.Comment
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I prefer lcd, got one of each though!"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." CiceroComment
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http://www.sony.co.uk/view/ShowProd...gory=TVP+LCD+TV
and available for £698 at
http://www.digitaldirect.co.uk/produ...=12396#Scene_1
So have any of you lot ran this cost through the books?Rule Number 1 - Assuming that you have a valid contract in place always try to get your poo onto your timesheet, provided that the timesheet is valid for your current contract and covers the period of time that you are billing for.
I preferred version 1!Comment
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I've heard that plasma screens can use a lot more power than LCD - anyone know if that's true?Life is just nature's way of keeping meat fresh
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Originally posted by zeitghostI find it quite stunning that shops are allowed to sell TVs that don't have built in Freeview.
For some areas of the country, analogue is less than 2 years from switch off...
"Sorry Mrs Jones, your new tv needs a set top box to work now..."
For us it's next year
Anyway I bought a projector so my screen is considerably larger than all of yours
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Originally posted by hattraI've heard that plasma screens can use a lot more power than LCD - anyone know if that's true?
They produce a tulip load of heat (Plasma) and are fecking heavy!Comment
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SED technology could blow both plasma & LCD away.... just wait a little longer before taking the plungeHow fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't thinkComment
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But will it be cheap at launch? Like any technology if you wait for the best thing you'll never get it just jump in, LCD's and plasma's are cheap enough now not to be too worried about the cost, 3 years ago an equivalent set to what I have now would have been 4k instead of the £1200 I paid, at that price in a few years time when SED is proved and cheap enough the LCD will go up stairs replace the CRT in the bedroom.Originally posted by TrollSED technology could blow both plasma & LCD away.... just wait a little longer before taking the plungeScience isn't about why, it's about why not. You ask: why is so much of our science dangerous? I say: why not marry safe science if you love it so much. In fact, why not invent a special safety door that won't hit you in the butt on the way out, because you are fired. - Cave JohnsonComment
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6000:1 contrast ratio! Whoohooo!
That's a must have when you come home from the pub after 7 pints of wife-beater and slob, stupified on the sofa to watch yet another showing of Terminator 2.
You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.
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