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Sony TV KDL46EX703U
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3D is here to stay, just not in its present guise
It certainly is, my brother's got a 60" Sony 3D, so yes seen it in the right environment.
I'm saying its not 3D, its many years away from being anything other than an illusion. I've never looked to see if the hype has translated into home sales around the world but I suspect not.
Apart from my Bro I know a few others who have one and they spend 99% of their time on non3D viewing. I'm about to go out till late I may have a look [ if no one does it for me ] at the actual sales figures in Korea / Japan wherever when I get back.
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The ones that are out now are a passing fad
When the 3D tvs come out that dont require glasses (Without faults) THEN we shall have a product worth buying:idea:0 -
I intend to buy the above TV from John Lewis as they offer a 5 year warranty for 999.00 pounds.
Wow! That's an expensive warranty - I hope they chuck the TV in for free!
I don't have an LED-backlit TV, but I find that my 24" LED-backlit monitor really helps minimise eyestrain.
Also, I think that spreading tiny LEDs evenly across the back of the screen is results in more even backlighting that CCFLs which are larger and have some variance in brightness across their surface.
It's funny, but I don't know anyone who's interested in 3D TV... I just can't see it taking off for some time...
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No they don't.
Well they did for me I printed the best price from the net took it in and John Lewis (Cardiff) not only equalled it they gave me the 5 years warranty as well (the net price was with 2 years warranty) a saving of £150 plus the warranty saving.
From the Cardiff shop web site
Never Knowingly Undersold is our lifelong commitment to giving you the best value through great products, at great prices, supported by great service.
We know price is really important, and that´s why we put so much effort into getting it right. We check and match the online and shop prices of our high street competitors, and when we match a national price, this applies in all our shops and on our website. We even match competitors’ sale prices. For John Lewis own brand products, our buyers are charged with making sure we offer the best quality for the price in the market.0 -
- Samsung have sold 270,000 3D TVs worldwide - 90% of the global 3D TV market
- LG began to sell its 3D range April and since have sold 5,000 units, as of the end of May
- Sony launched their range of 3D TVs in time for the World Cup, on June 10th
The original estimate of 5% has been revised down to 2% and that fits in with the actual sales of 3.3 million 3DTVs which represents fewer than 2% of televisions worldwide.
So even with the tri££ions spent by the worlds movie / TV / sky / sports / and manufacturing industry sales are doing nowt! I always thought it was a top down rather than bottom up led initiative, they always were and always will be. Mind you we [ the population ] never wanted colour / multichannel sound / high def / etc. However none of the above innovations required us to wear electric goggles in our own home which would explain why the estimate of 3 pairs per household is currently running at less than 1 pair sold per 3D TV set in most Western European countries. Compulsory 3D eyewear will I think kill the initiative, and of itself may be the spur the research side of manufacturing needs to develop a non eyewear 3D tv at a reasonable cost.
For the foreseeable future I think most people :
- will not buy 3D
- those who do will pay the extra for: -
- - - bragging rights
- - - future proofing
- - - because they were conned for commission by the PC World salesperson
- - - will use it infrequently for the odd DVD / sports event transmission / pron
- use it for non 3D purposes
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home_alone wrote: »Well they did for me I printed the best price from the net took it in and John Lewis (Cardiff) not only equalled it they gave me the 5 years warranty as well (the net price was with 2 years warranty) a saving of £150 plus the warranty saving.
From the Cardiff shop web site
Never Knowingly Undersold is our lifelong commitment to giving you the best value through great products, at great prices, supported by great service.
We know price is really important, and that´s why we put so much effort into getting it right. We check and match the online and shop prices of our high street competitors, and when we match a national price, this applies in all our shops and on our website. We even match competitors’ sale prices. For John Lewis own brand products, our buyers are charged with making sure we offer the best quality for the price in the market.
You were very fortunate :j.
Please note your quote from JL website is incomplete.Never Knowingly Undersold is our lifelong commitment to giving you the best value through great products, at great prices, supported by great service.
We know price is really important, and that´s why we put so much effort into getting it right. We check and match the online and shop prices of our high street competitors, and when we match a national price, this applies in all our shops and on our website. We even match competitors’ sale prices. For John Lewis own brand products, our buyers are charged with making sure we offer the best quality for the price in the market.
Our commitment to value is about much more than highly competitive prices, it´s about all those extra things that are worth a lot - like expert and impartial advice, or feeling confident that the product you´ve just bought will last. It might even be the knowledge that we´re responsible in our sourcing.
We truly believe Never Knowingly Undersold is as important today as it was when we introduced it over 85 years ago. After all, value is something that should last a lifetime.
So, if you see or buy a product from us and find it cheaper with a high street competitor (that excludes online-only or mail order businesses such as Dixons, Amazon or Play.com, who don’t have shops), as long as their service conditions are comparable, such as delivery charges and guarantee terms, then we´ll match that price for you when you buy, or refund the difference for up to 28 days afterwards if you´ve already purchased."A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members." ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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Amazon are selling this at £899 and with the Sony VAT back deal you would pay £765. I guess you then have to decide if £85 is worth paying for the warranty offered by John Lewis
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-KDL46EX703U-Widescreen-Internet-Freeview/dp/B003BYRRCG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1289041997&sr=8-10 -
I recently bought the 40ex503 from JLP and I would certainly think it`s worth paying £85 extra for a five year warranty.
In fact I would say that anyone forking out £600 plus on a TV would be very silly not getting a 5 year warranty with all the thing that could go wrong on one of these tvs.
You pay out £600/£700/£800 for a tv and after a year something goes wrong
what are you going to do?
throw it away?
No
get someone to come and rip you off for a couple of hundred quid to fix it
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I wonder how well Sky HD works on reactive 3D when it encodes it's broadcasts in non-reactive format (viewable in 3D on ANY TV capable of 720p or better).
All those mugs spending-out on reactive 3D TV's (with extra glasses at £100 a pair). I watched Avatar 3D on my mates Plasma TV using non-reactive glasses garnered from my last visit to the cinema, and the experiance was amazing.
In the battle of system dominance, non-reactive will be the winner as -
1. This is the system used by the cinema
2. It is the chosen system for broadcast TV (TV is broadcast at 50 Hz, Reactive3D only works at 100 Hz)
3. As non-reactive 3D can be viewed using standard Bluray players, on HDReady TVs and using cheap to produce glasses, and as the films are already filmed for the cinema in non-reactive 3D, why would a movie maker go to the trouble of re-sampling the film for a minority of less than 2 million users, when there are over 40 million who are capable of watching it in n/r 3D?
It is also worth noting that holographic TV is being trialled in Korea, and it works faultlessly.Never Knowingly Understood.
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