Gigantic 37" LCD HD Ready TV £375 all-in. Can you beat it?

ronancolin

www.aria.co.uk consistently have the cheapest TVs they are made by TECO we have 7 of the 32 inchers where I work and I paid more than the £329inc that they are asking for a 37 now. These rock bottom priced ones dont include all the bells and whistles of tvs 2 x the price so look carefully at what you are buying.
If you have Sky or Virgin tv already then ok as they sometimes dont have freeview etc
I personally have a Philips at home with enchanced hd upscaling for freeview etc and it is brilliant but it was more than twice the price and only 32 inches.

pjvenner

Omega7 wrote: »

Cheers for the heads up jon_c! I would either get a 32 or 37inch. I have a
PS3 and XBOX360, but also intend to use my laptop with HD media linked up to the TV. You really cant tell the difference on a smaller than 50inch HD TV?, never would have guessed. You have saved me quite alot of money here, thanx.

Just one more question. If two HD TVs have the same resolution (1080i) then why would the picture look worse on one (cheaper) than the other?

Thanx again!

One reason for variation in image quality on sets with the same resolution might be the contrast, IE: Blacker blacks and whiter whites on the better sets.... so just think of them like a good all purpose washing powder I guess.

Also depending on your viewing area, a narrow viewing angle could deteriorate what you see.

carriew

sorry me again

could anyone please give me their opinion on this deal at tesco?

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.100-4219.aspx

as I said in previous post I am looking for 26" ish hd read LCD
dont need freeview as have virgin cable

but dont understand all teckie stuff
( thick essex girl :rotfl: ) !!!

I just want an east to instal/use telly thats gonna have a good picture and sound , last a long time for a reasonable price!! ... arnt we all

thanks in advance

carrie x

malc_b

I can't believe there are 24fps DVD, do mean 30fps (or 29.94 or some such to be precise), the USA standard? 24fps is film but usually that is played at 25fps, you don't notice the slightly higher voices and shorter film time.

HD is a lot of hype at the moment. For one thing >750 is classed as HD yet that will give a worse image. Current TV is ~540 so for HD you want 1080 i.e. 1:2 pixel mapping. If you have 768 HD then you get 2:3 mapping which is fuzzier than SD, 1:1 mapping, so pointless!

IMO the quoted TV figures are generally pointless. SD is ok up to at least 42in in a normal setup. What you want to know is the number of colours or DAC bits. 8 bits gives 16 million colours but some screens don't even reach that so they dither to get finer colour resolution giving less pixel resolution. And 8 bits is low tech. 10 bits gives 1G colours and 12 bit gives 68G colours which sound a lot but when consider that 12 bit is only 4095:1 contrast ratio it doesn't sound so much (10 bit = 1024:1, 8bit = 256:1).

sanjaymaz

Hitachi 37inch LCD HD Ready TV for £399
http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=HITA-37LD8550

Great store for cheap high quality electricals. Should buy in a store for the cheapest deals.

hopkinsg_2

www.teleland.co.uk are doing the hanspree 37" LCD TV for £449.95 including postage :TPLUS:T you get a wapping :beer:free 5 year guarantee with it too which in itself can cost well of 100 quid. I have one and it is fab. Paid a bit more for mine a few months ago but only about 45 quid. Delivery was quick too.

mark1024

I tried to order a large LCD TV from Ebuyer a couple of months ago, but had such problems I gave up and ordered from Empiredirect instead.

After placing the order on the net and thinking all was well I received a text msg on my phone a few days later asking me to contact customer services. A couple of minutes later another one came telling me the order was cancelled.

After phoning them they said their 'security checks' had thrown something up, and I needed to email/ fax (an 0870) all this lot :

Passport / picture card of my UK Drivers License
A utility bill - Acceptable bills were only gas, water, electric or council tax.

No explanation was given, and as I was at my parents for the week without easy net access it was a major pain. The utilities were also in my partners name. My father was in hospital for a big heart operation, and the TV was a gift for him when recuperating, so that all got messed up.

Sorry to go off track but I remember them being so unhelpful about the whole matter, others might think twice about ordering from these people.
I've had no other problems with online ordering (which I do quite a lot of) and resent being asked to jump through rings of fire to buy a £300 TV.

In my mind it is worth paying a little for good customer service.

horny_kez

Hi, I would just like to refer to the original post, I have been warned not to buy a cheap T.V because of low resolution and poor picture quality and as the specifications mean very little to me I don't know what is or is not a good quality picture! So is this T.V good...picture wise?

Any help would be greatfully appreciated, thanks! :T

newmommyjen

sanjaymaz wrote: »

Hitachi 37inch LCD HD Ready TV for £399
http://www.richersounds.com/showproduct.php?cda=showproduct&pid=HITA-37LD8550

Great store for cheap high quality electricals. Should buy in a store for the cheapest deals.

bump
when we brought our plasma telly, we had some pic problems with it.
They came to the house to collect it, and had a use of a like for like telly till urs was getting fixed, only took about a week to fix.

newmommyjen

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