Fujitsu 42" Plasma £999.95 at RS

glebecs · 06-08-2004, 9:21 PM

Graded model, must be the 1st sub £1000 plasma on the UK retail market

EDIT

Got so excited I forgot this LINK

DVDcake · 07-08-2004, 3:13 AM

That is incredible. Mind you with the price of plasmas falling all the time I would not think they could have charged much more than that for a graded item.

thekingbeyond · 07-08-2004, 10:52 AM

I rang richers about these friday, they are ex display, been in window for 6-8 months,on friday there was one in bristol, they told me they were just getting rid of the display meodels not expecting stock to come in

thekingbeyond · 07-08-2004, 11:57 AM

Sold out now through out company

glebecs · 12-08-2004, 5:17 PM

Picked one up at RS Norwich this morning (Thanks Piers), they got it in on a pallet from Bristol this morning, great screen at a fantastic price.
PQ is very good, I demo'd in the shop and it is easily as clear and colourful as the hitachi and miles ahead of the daewoo that they sell at £1499 (£1399 on 'net)

was also told that the word is that they will have a new retail plasma (no ideas on make/model) for £999 in time for xmas

I am a happy man

glebecs · 14-08-2004, 10:50 PM

According to the stock pdf (on page i linked to originally) there are now 2 more of these in the warehouse if anyone is interested (still 100% happy with mine)

msrx7mh3 · 16-08-2004, 9:49 AM

Hi there,

does anybody know if the product comes with a video board or is it via VGA input only? How does it rate in comparison with the latest generation panny's for instance?

Thanks.

38H21543 · 16-08-2004, 10:46 AM

Is the link in the first post to Richersounds.co.uk working for anyone at the moment?
The web site seems to have been down (from here) for at least a week now.

hornydragon · 16-08-2004, 10:48 AM

Link works fine for me mate

38H21543 · 16-08-2004, 10:58 AM

Thanks hornydragon.
Maybe NTL have a DNS problem finding it!

ledzep100 · 16-08-2004, 12:17 PM

Just been on to RS in Reading and they're saying that they have none left.

glebecs · 16-08-2004, 2:29 PM

In relation to video board, mine came with BNC and S-Video inputs in addition to the VGA, no scart though.

Andy

hornydragon · 16-08-2004, 3:21 PM

i have been having problems accessing amazon, yell, even google today, something is not right sorry if this is off topic but its the only thread i have been able to post onfor 2 hours. Glebecs, how is the screen? Iscan ultra will compliment very well and there was one in classifieds vonhosen i think was selling one

ledzep100 · 16-08-2004, 4:16 PM

glebecs,

What's run time did you have on your panel mate? and could you confirm what warranty you got with?

Cheers

ledzep

glebecs · 16-08-2004, 4:36 PM

Hello, the screen as I said is great, excellent contrast etc, watching DVD'S the picture is spot-on, no need to deviate from the standard colour settings etc.

ledzep100, I havent come accross runtime in the menus anywhere, anyone know how I might check this?

Warranty from RS is actually only 3 months BUT AFAIK Fujitsu provide a 2 year warranty (1st year onsite) and as I have a receipt to prove that I purchased last week which has no mention of it being a graded product I would think that they would honour this.

hornydragon · 16-08-2004, 6:48 PM

If its graded, as soon as you give them your serial number it flag as graded on their system mate.

glebecs · 16-08-2004, 8:15 PM

It's only graded by RS, fujitsu should have no idea

hornydragon · 18-08-2004, 9:39 AM

As RS dont sell Fujitsu normally i think they must have bought a batch from a Fujitsu distributor or Fujitsu UK themselves. Shouldnt have many issues tho.

glebecs · 18-08-2004, 12:09 PM

I don't suppose you (or anyone) would know how to get to the service menu in order to check the hours used would you?

Cheers

hornydragon · 18-08-2004, 2:18 PM

erm i could find out, dont know off top of my head, try calling fujitsu, they may tell you what you need for acess to hours log. Also search for the Panny codes on here and try them,

glebecs · 18-08-2004, 2:46 PM

Got it, just hold down enter for 5 seconds ish.

Pleasant surprise too, 8719 minutes runtime, around 145 hours

Mr Pumpkinhead · 23-08-2004, 8:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glebecs

It's only graded by RS, fujitsu should have no idea

What exactly does "GRADED" mean in this context?
Are these ex-dem, returns or something else?

hornydragon · 23-08-2004, 9:00 PM

You would have to ask RS that.

glebecs · 24-08-2004, 2:26 PM

Impossible to say really, I had assumed that they would have been shop demo's but that can't be the case for the one I bought as it had hardly done any hours, it did have a bit of dust here and there so must have been unboxed at some point