Bargain alert! 32" HD Ready LCD TV £499 from £699

Ann1e

Yeah - I know - sorry, didn't put that in post. I've only got a little house so I always think small (well, not always!). Only got small space for the TV, and we are quite close to it. S'pose the 'widescreen' bit is what people are looking for

Maybe it is better to wait a bit - I mean, look at petrol prices - they dropped pretty rapidly, I'm sure all major outlets will pretty soon be flogging these sets off at lower and lower prices

Come to think of it - my PC screen is 19" and that looks huge to me - think my current TV is probably the same size! Also, I only watch a couple of hours TV per day so I guess I'm not the best person to expound on sets. P'raps I should get my daughter on here - she's the tele addict round here!

:undecided :undecided :undecided

RedOnRed

Ann1e wrote:

Maybe it is better to wait a bit - I mean, look at petrol prices - they dropped pretty rapidly, I'm sure all major outlets will pretty soon be flogging these sets off at lower and lower prices

Just remember though it'll be running on electricity and not petrol !

Ann1e

RedOnRed wrote:

Just remember though it'll be running on electricity and not petrol !

Ha ha - you are a card - a red card at that! I'm still larfin'!

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CFC

My two pennies worth:

Do NOT rush out and buy an LCD tv without having done your research. I'm just an ordinary 'want to watch tv, dvds and play games' user rather than a 'rivet counter' so I was initially going to buy a 37inch LCD as my current normal tv needs replacing. However, once I looked into it I realised it is an absolute minefield.

SD is what BBC ITV etc and freeview currently broadcast. HD is non existent practically as yet and won't really get seriously going until heaven knows when. When you plug your huge new lcd tellie into your arial or sky or cable box, you might have a very bad picture, as many lcd screens do a poor job of showing SD and you won't be getting HD just because your tv is HD capable.

In short, it's a lot of money to shell out. You can go into any old store and buy a reasonable crt tv and know exactly what you are going to get, but it isn't the same AT ALL with lcd screens.

Do your homework first, when you understand it all,make your decision. If you don't understand what you're buying, don't buy it.

RedOnRed

CFC wrote:

SD is what BBC ITV etc and freeview currently broadcast. HD is non existent practically as yet and won't really get seriously going until heaven knows when. When you plug your huge new lcd tellie into your arial or sky or cable box, you might have a very bad picture, as many lcd screens do a poor job of showing SD and you won't be getting HD just because your tv is HD capable.

In short, it's a lot of money to shell out. You can go into any old store and buy a reasonable crt tv and know exactly what you are going to get, but it isn't the same AT ALL with lcd screens.

Do your homework first, when you understand it all,make your decision. If you don't understand what you're buying, don't buy it.

Absolutely spot on. Would we buy a car that runs on a fuel that isn't readily available yet? No we wouldn't. The same thing should apply to HDTV's right now.

Unless you need a new TV now anyway, HDTV currently isn't broadcast enough to justify getting an HDTV ready TV. Keep your money in your pocket until things change and the technology will only improve too.

This site should be doing more to encourage caution when buying one of these, especially instead of promoting going out and buying the cheapest most obscure rubbish brand/model imaginable.

maestromarv

Buying a LCD today is like buying a car now and using it in a year. WAIT, buy it next year! At least the car would be pretty much the same retail price in 2007, TV's won't! A Telewest engineer told me his own collegue at one of their broadcast stations said not to bother buying HD yet, hold on until next Summer. Even the world cup wasn't filmed in HD, just broadcast in a converted-up resolution from Germany's analogue signal.

Once true HD filmed productions (Lost, Dr Who and a few other up and coming BBC projects) do make it to HD channels (and you get SkyHD or Telewest TvDrive) 1080p is the only way to go. Anything else is a bargain option, a mid-line filler for all brands from crappy goodmans to top Panasonic/Pioneer.

By the way, you with the DVD recorder. Only the Telewest TV Drive currently records High Def signals. The resolution of DVD is not as high as HD and you can tell on many new TV's (some have specific functions to enhance with a bit of trickery), so your DVD recorder certainly isn't HD, but don't worry. It still does what it claims for the bargain you got it for. HD DVD or Blue ray recorders will be some time before they (or blank media) are affordable.

As for consoles.... if you need to play your XBOX360 on a huge screen then, fair enough, you'll want 1080, otherwise just get a WXGA PC monitor with DVI connector for £120-180 and get a high rez picture (then you won't be hogging the family TV either).

I'm no techy on this, but keep checking out the BBC News Technology page and watch these forums, then when the technology becomes widespread and HD replacements for DVD are at consumer prices, check out homecinema, Which or whatever reviews are available. The earlier poster was right. Find what is a highly regarded TV within your price range then start searching for it at a bargain price!

bella4uk

maestromarv wrote:

As for consoles.... if you need to play your XBOX360 on a huge screen then, fair enough, you'll want 1080, otherwise just get a WXGA PC monitor with DVI connector for £120-180 and get a high rez picture (then you won't be hogging the family TV either).

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Please could you reccommend a 19"monitor for xbox 360 as I haven't a clue...thanks

jeanette251978

Hi guys.

ive just done a quick search on kelkoo.co.uk and have found a samsung hd ready tv even cheaper !! its got to be worth a look

http://www.comet.co.uk/comet/html/cache/453_324140.html?cm_ven=Kelkoo&cm_cat=Feed&cm_pla=Widescreen_TVs&cm_ite=324140_SAMSUNG_WS32Z409TQ

jeanette251978

thats £385.95 and free delivery

Repo

jeanette251978 wrote:

Hi guys.

ive just done a quick search on kelkoo.co.uk and have found a samsung hd ready tv even cheaper !! its got to be worth a look

That's a CRT set though; not a flat panel (LCD or plasma).