Who thought buying an HDTV would be so hard?

[Tom Scott]

I can never trust shop display models to be a fair comparison of the display image the unit is capable of, so don't read much into the display image.

As you say the image depends on the source, and the colour settings on the TV. Make sure you are able to adjust sharpness, colour, contrast etc. so that you understand what the TV is capable of, its an age old trick to have the contrast levels of TVs adjusted differently to make one look better than the other.

Only trust the image if you know the source is as good as the one you going to be using at home and you have complete control over the settings of the set.

[Steve]

Tom, they have the remotes out, allowing me to do exactly that

[Tom Scott]

Cool cool, a lot of places don't

[Gordy]

Nah. I'm going back to Cribbs tomorrow looking for a ~£500 32" LCD.

I'll get something, and the pleasure of harassing the sales assistants will make it worthwhile.

Didnt know you were another bristolian! Good luck at Cribs it will be heaving tommorow.

I've seen just how poor the signals on all the tv's are so I can wholeheartedly agree!

[Steve]

Didnt know you were another bristolian!

Well, I'm from Hull, but I now spend my days here in the West Country. Plus my northern accent makes me sound 'ard.

[Gordy]

Just as long as you don't start talk with a bristolian accent hehe

[torched_geek]

Ahhh..
A Hull man. I'm from Beverley area, Lol.
Hull is always good.. Cheap and cheerful, except from the few mindless thugs...
I'd hate to be paying Sathern Prices. Lol,

[fat jez]

Well, I got my LG 26" today and overall seems pretty good, apart from a rather annoying dead pixel (or more probably sub-pixel) near the top right of the screen. It's only really noticeable when using the Xbox 360 Dashboard, but since it's within LG's tolerances, I guess I'm stuck with it.

Picture seems fine, sound is OK and there are plenty of connections on the back too.

Sadly I missed out on it being £399.99, as the offer finished yesterday, so I ended up paying £549.99 including 5 years warranty.

Cheers,
Stephen

[Funkstar]

thats a bummer. But at least if i do find myself in Glasgow next week i won't be tempted to ge in and get one

[Gordy]

Hope you didn't try to go to Cribs yesterday as the traffic was terrible. Took ages to get home from Asda and there was an accident going towards Cribs by the Porsche dealer as well.

Grrr godamn bristol traffic!

[Steve]

Hope you didn't try to go to Cribs yesterday as the traffic was terrible. Took ages to get home from Asda and there was an accident going towards Cribs by the Porsche dealer as well.

Grrr godamn bristol traffic!

Got there at 10:10. No trouble!

Bought a Lexsor lc32w18sd for £473. I like it because the speaker is detachable... I don't need the speaker.

Nice and cheap, but much better than what we had.

[Gordy]

Ah nice and early, we made the mistake of going at around 2ish . It was fine getting there, but took us ages to get home!

Where did you get the tv from in the end?