Which 1080 LCD?

delanec8

Hey im looking to get a 40/42'' LCD 1080p for christmas. Im happy to pay around €2K. Can anyone recommend something?

Ive looked at an LG (42LF65) for €1714 and a samsung (L40N86BDX) for €1914. Both prices are from argos. Are these any use?

EDIT: Did a bit more research and am probably going to get the Sony KDL40W3000 LCD TV. Anyone have any experience with it?

xanthor

Argos pricing on LCD TVs is less than competitive, the same could be said about pricing in Sony Centers.

40W3000 is probably a good choice, but i don't know alot about that particular model. If nobody here can help you, there should be a thread about it over on avforums.com

Oafley Jones

Unless you're buying a 50" or bigger, stick with a 720p set and save yourself money. At 42" you will not be able to differentiate between 720p and 1080p.

I'd avoid Sony like the plague, overpriced and very poor reliabilty. I'd opt for Samsung or Phillips.

xanthor

Some say 50 inches is the minimum for 1080P. Some say it's 60 inches.

I don't recall ever seeing any conclusive proof on what the minimum necessary size is for 1080P.

Sony definitely charge extra because of the badge.

I'm not sure if they're any more unreliable than other brands however.

Samsung's track record has definitely been a bit spotty in the past.

mathias

Just my opinion , but I have seen quite a few Flat panels at this stage ,

I would rate Pioneer and Panasonic Viera as the best at the moment.

Toshiba a close third for their latest sets only though ,

After that Samsung ,

Sony were very late getting into flat panels , they had their excellent Wega CRT's and didnt think flat panels would take off so quick , so they are playing catch up , they are also playing the marketing game and making some very dubious claims about their latest sets ,

So , go for Panasonic is my advise , unless you have the cash for Pioneer , which are very very expensive but lead the pack by a country mile.

byte

Oafley Jones wrote: »

I'd avoid Sony like the plague, overpriced and very poor reliabilty. I'd opt for Samsung or Phillips.

I'd say the opposite.

If it were me, I'd also choose a Panasonic or Pioneer also. But then, I do prefer plasma over LCD, as plasmas generally look better with SD signals IMO. Sony, for some reason, only output LCD's these days.

I wonder if there's much difference between the Sony W2000 series and the W3000 series? Apart from price, as the W2000's are cheaper now, being end of line.

delanec8

Anyway i changed my mind and am getting the Samsung LE40M86BD.

Found a quality review site for HDTVs

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/

xanthor

delanec8 wrote: »

Anyway i changed my mind and am getting the Samsung LE40M86BD.

Found a quality review site for HDTVs

http://www.hdtvtest.co.uk/

So long as you don't plan to watch standard definition TV on it, you're unlikely to have any real problems.

...and if you DO plan to watch SDTV on it... buy something else.

walter johnston

hi folks
Recently givn a 28inch jvc crt tv, connect via NTL but having a lot of trouble getting pictures to fit the screen, the faces seem to go off the side and seem a ltlle too large, tried setting it to 16:9 but wonder if i'm doing something wrong, text can go off screen too.

thanks
walter

Fingers Mcginty

xanthor wrote: »

So long as you don't plan to watch standard definition TV on it, you're unlikely to have any real problems.

...and if you DO plan to watch SDTV on it... buy something else.

can you explain why?

Bozacke

Curry's has a big one day St. Stephen's day sale until 6PM today. I just got a Samsung 40in LCD 1080 for €1099 and a stand for an extra €100. They also have 1 42in 1080 for €1399 and a Samsung 47in 1080 LCD for I think €1799.

Bozacke

Just got the Samsung 1080 40in LCD TV (LE40M8) at Curry's and I'm very disappointed. I have a slew of NTSC Videos and DVDs with a NTSC playback Video and a region Free DVD player, all works fine on older cheaper TVs but on the new expensive Samsung LCD the NTSC stuff looks like garbage! I've read through the manual and tried all of the settings but I can't find anything. If I can't resolve I'll be bringing it back!! I can't believe a TV would be made today without NTSC playback and I thought even the cheaper TVs had NTSC playback now.

ongarite

I sit not just that LCDs, your Samsung, are very good a scaling SD material to HD resolution especially FullHD resolution.