Currys Panasonic TH42PX60B 42" High Definition TV £899

deanos

gromituk wrote:

As for SCART leads: oh yes, you can get crap ones. But you cannot extrapolate from that that one costing £50 will give you a better picture than one costing £5. Don't be fooled.

Homebase sell self locking scart leads for £5.99 and they definitely improved the picture from my Sky Box and DVD Player.

I agree you are mad to pay £50 for a lead

FloFlo

deanos wrote:

Depends on the viewing distance, if you are close then a 42" wont look very good

Cheers, one settee about 9 foot from it and the other about 6 foot, is that too near for a 42".

deanos

FloFlo wrote:

Cheers, one settee about 9 foot from it and the other about 6 foot, is that too near for a 42".

http://www.myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html

FloFlo

deanos wrote:

http://www.myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html

Thanks, I had a go, read interpreting the results but .

I'm a bit thick.:o

fwhorn

Gromit,

1 My friend is not a scientist.
2 The yacht in question was having a audio/visual fitting, so that what it has to do with the question of cable/leads. Do you know any owners of yachts or people of serious money who can give you a blind test?
3 How can I be duped if I get things for free.
4 Are you saying that there is no difference in leads full stop.
5 I havn't done a blind test with 2 of the same tvs, but have swaped a cheap scart to decent scart and sorry to say, the decent scart won hands down.


"Get him to tell us, in engineering terms, exactly how these expensive cables are better in the context of the signals that they are carrying, if he really does have a sound scientific background."

What! Are you for real, what kind of statement is that? Read the thread and not one person agrees with you. Why would he waste his time on you, you are quite happy with your £1.00 scarts.

Quality differences exist in SCART cables. While a proper SCART cable would use miniature coax cables for the video signals, cheap SCART cables often use plain wires for all signals, resulting in a loss of image quality and greatly reducing the maximum cable length.

The above was taken from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART

Please feel free to read the rest of the passage, or is wikipedia and all the people who have stated that they have changed scart leads and got better results, WRONG.

deanos

FloFlo wrote:

Thanks, I had a go, read interpreting the results but .

I'm a bit thick.:o

http://www.dtvcity.com/plasmatv/plasmascreensize.html

FloFlo

deanos wrote:

http://www.dtvcity.com/plasmatv/plasmascreensize.html

Now that I can understand.:rotfl: Looks like OH could be right, first time for everything.:rolleyes:

gromituk

deanos wrote:

Homebase sell self locking scart leads for £5.99 and they definitely improved the picture from my Sky Box and DVD Player.

I'll bet that if you open up the plug on the one you were using before, you'll find it didn't contain coaxial cables. Either that or it wasn't completely wired so you were using composite rather than RGB.

Searcher2

FloFlo wrote:

Cheers, one settee about 9 foot from it and the other about 6 foot, is that too near for a 42".

The 9ft will be fine. At 6ft you may notice some adverse pics on SD material. I think I'd still go 42". It's not often the lady of the house wants it bigger (the TV that is) than the bloke. I thought 42" would be too big... but now I am wondering about 50"!

deanos

gromituk wrote:

I'll bet that if you open up the plug on the one you were using before, you'll find it didn't contain coaxial cables. Either that or it wasn't completely wired so you were using composite rather than RGB.

The old one was fully wired, the new cable definately improved the picture