Sony 40" LCD for £499

roddydogs

Superior CRT R U Serious?

roddydogs

roddydogs wrote: »

Superior CRT R U Serious?

If u like em that much get em free from freecycle/Gumtree!

isofa

roddydogs wrote: »

Superior CRT R U Serious?

Many top end CRTs still offer a better standard/freeview picture than LCD, LCD can give a poorer picture with terrestrial transmissions. Decent HD LCDs with a good HD signal can be excellent, but plasma is a little better, LCD has a way to go, in a few years all with with LED backlit and then hopefully all OLED, and then they will be better IMO.

Many designers still use high end CRT monitors for colour matching work, they are very few LCD monitors than can match these for 100% accuracy, although the gap is much closer than it was 5 years ago.

Still, prices on the JL sale are excellent!

hawkwinddotcom

Ordered one last night for delivery next Saturday

drezsa

Dustangle wrote: »

Just think - all these people buying £500 lcd tellies to impress the kind of people they want to impress will be putting their superior CRT tellies on Ebay or whatever - a few days from now we'll all be able to pick up really good kit for a tenner!

Difficult to enjoy a 2.35:1 AR film on a CRT

Kavanne

Dustangle wrote: »

Just think - all these people buying £500 lcd tellies to impress the kind of people they want to impress will be putting their superior CRT tellies on Ebay or whatever - a few days from now we'll all be able to pick up really good kit for a tenner!

I bought an LCD TV because I am but a weak and feeble woman and I can actually lift it and carry it myself!!

1carminestocky

Granted none of my friends with LCD TVs have gone the whole hog and gotten Sky HD, but I haven't seen one of them with a picture quality on standard def that beats my 7 year old Philips Cool Green 100hz CRT TV. I'm a gadget freak and ordinarily love to have the latest technology but my 'Philips with the big @rse' has saved me thousands. Also like all my friend's LCDs, it's placed in the alcove so is taking up no more space than their flat screens. It will be replaced when it gives up the ghost (hopefully when OLEDs have been out several years and will come free with a packet of cornflakes, lol).

On topic: If you are in need of a new TV, these JL deals are pretty unbeatable at the moment.

Greta

This has now gone up to £329 and £599, respectively.

coinchaser

DH has rushed over to our nearest John Lewis - so fingers crossed!! I won a £650 home cinema kit and our TV was so old it didn't have any of the right holes/tubes etc etc so we may finally be able to watch Wall-E on Blu Ray!

Roger_Rampant

Dustangle wrote: »

Just think - all these people buying £500 lcd tellies to impress the kind of people they want to impress will be putting their superior CRT tellies on Ebay or whatever - a few days from now we'll all be able to pick up really good kit for a tenner!

Actually our yukky old Whafedale CRT, which had never been particularly brilliant but had been cheap, finally gave up the ghost at the end of November, and even my TV-mending friend said it wasn't worth repairing it again. This Sony LCD TV had a better picture straight out of the box.

I put the old TV and the remote out the back of our house for a week or so, somebody will usually take it, but in the end I had to take it down to the council tip and put it in a skip there! :rotfl: