HDMI Cable
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weloveliam@space
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Believe it or not a cheap one from Maplins will work just as well as a 100 pounds top of the range version. Apparently theres no change in quality for digital cables, either theres a picture or there isnt.
agentundercover
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i think thats one of the points of it. its digital so it does not detoriorate. i got a 5 quid one from ebay & it is spot on.
cheers lads
I shied away from the £200 + ones and plumped for one that cost me £8 with delivery!!
cheers lads
I shied away from the £200 + ones and plumped for one that cost me £8 with delivery!!
£200 for a cable
well worth it if u have a state of the art tv, player and 20/20 vision!
Padster
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£200 for a cable
well worth it if u have a state of the art tv, player and 20/20 vision!
And more money than sense!
weloveliam@space
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Exactly, i spent a small fortune on my home cinema set up with this expensive component cable, with that expensice co axial etc etc. But with my PS3 and my Bravia full hd i'm using a €12 hdmi cable and the picture is just
You end up watching the picture not the film. Her indoors doesnt get it though Exactly, i spent a small fortune on my home cinema set up with this expensive component cable, with that expensice co axial etc etc. But with my PS3 and my Bravia full hd i'm using a €12 hdmi cable and the picture is just
they never do!! it's definately a bloke thing!!
not set it all up yet, doing it at weekend spent last night converting my love film library to blu-ray....batman begins and wall-e first up!!
weloveliam@space
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they never do!! it's definately a bloke thing!!
not set it all up yet, doing it at weekend spent last night converting my love film library to blu-ray....batman begins and wall-e first up!!
You got Ps3 also ? Ive just figured how to stream media files from my new Vaio desktop to my PS3, So i can watch my home movies direct from my pc, fantastic. It really is a fantastic bit of kit.
When you say converting your library, how you gona do that
It wont be true hi def will it ???You watched casino royale on bluray yet ?? If not DO IT !!
You got Ps3 also ? Ive just figured how to stream media files from my new Vaio desktop to my PS3, So i can watch my home movies direct from my pc, fantastic. It really is a fantastic bit of kit.
When you say converting your library, how you gona do that
You watched casino royale on bluray yet ?? If not DO IT !!
Not yet, when I mean converting, I mean my pending list with "love film" ie the films Im waiting to be sent, I changed them all over to blu-ray!!!
agentundercover
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got my ps3 yesterday, i'm deathstargh if anyone fancies their ass kicking at fifa09!
Its worth getting a HD set if you can afford it mate as the screen will upscale the SD signal to HD automatically. You wont get a full HD picture but it should better than a SD one.
weloveliam@space
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Alright mate !!!!
I'd say plump for sony Bravia or Panasonic. Over here the 40" versions are very similiar priced to the 37". For mostly SD viewing i'd go for normal HD (full hd isnt the best with SD) and try get a 100 hertz model. I've got the 40" D3000, and the SD picture is fantastic.
Or Panasonics are great also, not LCD but the plasmas, they have freeview, and because theyre plasmas the contrast levels (blacks) are
This is a fantastic deal, well worth a look. 420 pounds delivered !!!
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Panasonic-T...m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=1MWC7MCG0RHJG2YCMJRS
My brothers got the 42" version, and it is a fantastic tv.
i saw a 50" Phillips Plasma in Richer Sounds for £699.
go on, you know you wanna!
haha, not sure it'll fit on the wall..
Cheers. Plasma is a good option, ive read a few things about "burning" if you have a fixed image for too long on plasmas? but then others say that with new plasmas that wont be a problem.
Rob , im defo geting an HD one, just not the 1080, but the 760 (or whatever it is)
weloveliam@space
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Yeah if you have a channel logo on the screen for a long time, say the Sky news logo, it can get 'screen burn'. You can get rid of it by zooming in slightly. But nowadays they dont need running in as much as before. They still recommend having the settings on about half (ie quite a dim picture) for a couple of weeks, but this is well worth it as the screen will last longer (they quote around 10 - 12 years
) and once run in, with the right settings (and right cables) the picture will be fantastic.You cant go far wrong with a Panny, and that seems a fantastic deal for 420 pounds.