Gadget Show - Funniest Show on TV

[HDCriticalFan]

... bar none !

Last night the contention was that a bedroom TV would be smaller than a lounge one.

Well we have a 42 incher on our bedroom wall and a 42 incher in our lounge. I can see that you would want a smaller one in a kitchen (or bathroom) ... but not in the bedroom, surely

So they decide to review 19 inch TVs (or, modest sized PC monitors to me). They bring in an assistant TV assessor - someone called Dawn who is apparently famous for making mildly sensationalist TV documentaries. She seemed more interested in the colour of the plastic surrounds, but I digress ...

When they talked about "HD Ready" I nearly spat my supper out ... on a 19 inch screen !!! But sure enough they started critcally reviewing a Blu-ray disc. They were sat up in bed with the TV at the foot of the bed - so about six or seven feet away. A quick online check shows that to see 1080 detail a normal human eye need to be about 2.5 feet from a 19 inch screen. They were almost too far away to properly see SD !


I was chortling to myself that nothing surprises me anymore on a show which mangles its (SD only) output so much (with funny colour/contrast, false vignetting and superimposed "filmic" effect) when they gleefully announced that to test the SD performance of the TVs they were going to use ... Gadget Show clips.


You couldn't make it up



On a (slightly) more serious note, I was sadly dissappointed when the apparently intelligent Jon Bentley (who should know better) mentioned in a throw away comment that the Sony was actually 16:10 (rather than 16:9). He dismissed this as if it was a minor trivial irrelevance ... its fundamental. Either this TV (like one at my gym) will squish everything slightly, or it will zoom and crop. You really can't even start to talk about picture quality when the starting off point is either distorted or, in part, completely missing.





Regards

[arthurdentpc]

I was just disappointed they didn't review the Humax LGB-22, which is similarly priced, has a good picture, a hard drive recorder and sound so good it would make grown men weep.

Personally I find the 22" screen perfect for watching at the foot of the bed - I think a 42" screen would look ridiculous.

[welshbrad]

I have gone off the gadget show recently not enough gadgets to much ar***g around, thier tests are totally irrelevant or way to over the top.

As much as I like gadgets I would never buy a automated penguin and don't really care for them 2 minutes would be long enough!

Rant over!

[welshbrad]

I have 32" in the bedroom about 3.4 meters from my viewing position, but it all comes down to the distance you are viewing from.

[tvdavid]

My 42in Toshiba is in my room.
And we have a 37in in the lounge which is my parents one.

[Shaun666]

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. I have a 50" in my living room and a 26" in the bedroom and wouldn't want a huge telly in there anyway.

[HDCriticalFan]

Originally Posted by arthurdentpc

Personally I find the 22" screen perfect for watching at the foot of the bed - I think a 42" screen would look ridiculous.

I'm not quite sure where you get "ridiculous" from

Our bedroom is quite narrow, barely two feet wider than the bed is long. This means that a screen mounted on the wall facing the bed is about 8 feet from a viewer sitting up in bed. Co-incidentally this is about the distance I sit from the TV in the lounge. In both cases a 42 inch screen is perfectly sized.

In fact, given that the wall facing the bed is otherwise empty, I think that it could take a 50 inch screen easily.

Rather than observe it as "ridiculous" most visitors go the "ooh" and "ahh" gasp route ... followed by the expression of the wish that they had a similar setup in their bedroom.





Regards

[Lion]

I've got a 44" in the living room and a 52" in the bedroom,
it seems obvious to me that my bedroom needs the larger screen size.

[emthree]

Bed room should be for sleeping, not watching tele, surely. OMG! is that the time? Better go to bed Good night guys

[Shaun666]

Originally Posted by emthree

Bed room should be for sleeping, not watching tele, surely. OMG! is that the time? Better go to bed Good night guys

Agreed. Better things to do in the bedroom than watch tv

[Coffin]

Interesting stuff

Epic GS thread here too