HD Ready TV's all reduced in Argos

colmranger

Argos are now selling all Acoustic Solutions HD tvs at reduced prices until 7th November!

32inch for €661, 26inch for €506 all HD Ready.

alastair_doom

cool. Can you give any product numbers?
(make of product, not Argos number )

Kristok

how much of a saving is that on the 32" do you know ?

kaisersose77

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5292002.htm

no mention of hdmi

but it must have dvi and cant you get a hdmi to dvi adapter?

Sad Professor

kaisersose77 wrote:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/5292002.htm

no mention of hdmi

but it must have dvi and cant you get a hdmi to dvi adapter?

yep. My philips lcd only has dvi and I use a hdmi/dvi cable to connect to my dvd player.

mathias

OK , these acoustic solutions tvs are by all accounts a terrible product , more importantly they are mis-advertised as a HD TV , they apparently only have a VGA PC input and component in , both of these analog connections.

There is no DVI or HDMI , and as such they should not be advertised as HDTV's , stay well clear is the message over on AVforums ,

Acoustic solutions license a name only to argos to re badge stuff , they do not support these TV's in any way.

colmranger

They also have Bush HD tv's 32inch reduced from €799 to €704

Years ago everybody had Bush tv's only. Are they crap too?

slave1

they are mis-advertised as a HD TV , they apparently only have a VGA PC input and component in

Are you getting digital tv confused with high def tv

the current HDTV standards are defined in ITU-R BT.709 as 1080 active interlaced or progressive lines, or 720 progressive lines, using a 16:9 aspect ratio.

would have thought component connection provide HD picture, does on my TV anyhow

dave101

was up there yesterday going to get that 32 incher in argos. and guy seemed to be an av bufff. whitch was a bit weird ,as he was working in argos. convinced me to wait til end of jan. id get a 42 for 700-800 he recons ..
who was i to argue? lol
gonna sit on this for a while.
to much happening in the tv world too soon. me thinks
happy halloween
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Ciaran500

mathias wrote:

OK , these acoustic solutions tvs are by all accounts a terrible product , more importantly they are mis-advertised as a HD TV , they apparently only have a VGA PC input and component in , both of these analog connections.

There is no DVI or HDMI , and as such they should not be advertised as HDTV's , stay well clear is the message over on AVforums

There is no misadvertising there. These are HDTV's but they are not HD ready. ie they can't accept a HDCP signal over HDMI/DVI.

They will still display HD fine and will work with nearly all sources, but in the future when HDCP is used more you will be screwed.

MOH

Ciaran500 wrote:

There is no misadvertising there. These are HDTV's but they are not HD ready. ie they can't accept a HDCP signal over HDMI/DVI.

They will still display HD fine and will work with nearly all sources, but in the future when HDCP is used more you will be screwed.

The first line on the argos product page claims that they're HD ready.

The licensing agreement for the use of HD ready logo requires that

"The display device accepts HD input via:
- Analogue YPbPr, and
- DVI or HDMI"

So if it doesn't support DVI or HDMI, it's not HD ready. Mind you, I'm sure they're not using the HD ready logo, they're just describing it as HD ready. Which is still misleading as it's not.