Need recommendation for upgrading TV

sentenel

Hi
Thinking its time to upgrade my tv and have started the battle with the financial controller to get her to release some funds
I have a 7 yr old panasonic viera 42 sd using sky I want to upgrade to a HD tv using Sky. I also do a lot of gaming on Ps3, xbox360 and Wii.
So looking for a 42-46 HD tv for Sky and gaming with a budget of 1000 euro (hopefully).So have you guys any recommendations or good deals at present ?
cheers
joe

Jev/N

Personally I'd recommend the the 40/46" Samsung A686, or the new 6 series 'B' upgrades - brilliant for gaming and very good for SD

Richersounds.ie: John

sentenel wrote: »

Hi
Thinking its time to upgrade my tv and have started the battle with the financial controller to get her to release some funds
I have a 7 yr old panasonic viera 42 sd using sky I want to upgrade to a HD tv using Sky. I also do a lot of gaming on Ps3, xbox360 and Wii.
So looking for a 42-46 HD tv for Sky and gaming with a budget of 1000 euro (hopefully).So have you guys any recommendations or good deals at present ?
cheers
joe

Sentenel,

Thanks for the post and apologies for the delay in getting back to you.

I agree with Jev/N that the Sammy 686 46" is brilliant - however it will blow the budget a bit as it's £999.95 (approx €1199) - I don't think there is another 46" at that price to touch it (and it looks sexy too)

If you want to spend a little less - the Sharp LC46X8E is also great, I have actually just sold one to a friend of mine who is a bit of an AV anorak and he is deligeted with it - this is just £799.95 and really does look great on SD and HD content.

At 42" the new Philips 42PFL5604 H is just coming out at the moment and we have a launch offer on this at just Euro €899.95 - this is a full HD LCD with MPEG4 decoder on board and I'm not sure if this is important - but it sounds completely amazing! see details here: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/4/42pfl5604h_12/42pfl5604h_12_pss_aen.pdf

Anyway enough waffle!

Drop me a line if I can assist in any way or if you would like me to reserve any of the above for you ,

ATB,

John Mc

sentenel

Hi
Thanks Johnmc and jev/N,
I like that samsung, the reviews look good and its a nice looking set. Don't know about the Philips lcd had bad experience with one before(but aftercare/customer care was great).
I was checking out the Panasonic 42G10 and the reviews looked good hope to go check out some of them in the flesh tomorrow.Have you any recommendations about the panny G10 Johnmc and what's the price?
Thanks again
joe

Invincible

Hi Sentenel,
Their price on the Richersounds.com site is £999.95.

See the review here www.avforums.com/reviews/Panasonic-TX-P42G10-Review.html

sentenel

Thnks invincible
I had read that review and its a great piece of kit (and price).
I went into the local tv place here to look at their philips,samsung and sharp stuff,they had no panasonic on display, but the salesman was chatting about gaa to a local sky installer so after 20 mins of looking and waiting i left muppet :mad:
So i think I'll have to go for the 42G10 now to convince the wife to release the money and put the old panasonic in the bedroom.
Johnmc
I bought my very first dvd player and had the motherboaard replaced to make it region free years ago in richersounds on the quays then a hifi seperates unit, always had great service then and its good to hear that still applies today.
cheers
joe

Richersounds.ie: John

sentenel wrote: »

Thnks invincible
I had read that review and its a great piece of kit (and price).
I went into the local tv place here to look at their philips,samsung and sharp stuff,they had no panasonic on display, but the salesman was chatting about gaa to a local sky installer so after 20 mins of looking and waiting i left muppet :mad:
So i think I'll have to go for the 42G10 now to convince the wife to release the money and put the old panasonic in the bedroom.
Johnmc
I bought my very first dvd player and had the motherboaard replaced to make it region free years ago in richersounds on the quays then a hifi seperates unit, always had great service then and its good to hear that still applies today.
cheers
joe

Thanks for that Joe - G10 available from stock!

And thanks for the kind words and yes we do hope that our service is better than most retailers - at least when you come into a Richer Sounds shop you won't have to stand around being ignored for 20 minutes listening to the Sales Colleagues talking about GAA as was your experience - in fact you will probably have to avoid Matt going on about Man U, Dave on Chelsea, Kenny and Paul arguing about which is better the Supra or 300Z and Paddy having a row about last night's Gig with Jay who is also trying to separate Matt and Dave at this stage coming to blows about who will win the league and trying to keep the peace - and as our shop is so damn small you will have no choice but to get involved in the conversation - you see you think it's good service - but it's just that the shops are so small we can't avoid speaking to our Customers ,

Thanks again and keep me posted!