cutes6
Active Member
I have been on these forums for a while now and they have proved a fantastic help to me in my purchases and set up. I have a dedicated cinema room at my home with some decent kit built up over the years and while I am no expert I work hard to get the best picture I can for the least money and have built up good experience over the years - anyway to the point.
I have recently purchased a flat in Hemel Hempstead due to work requirements while keeping my main family home in the North. This meant finding myself a decent Television of some sort so turned to these forums for help again. I didn't have a lot of money to spend and had resigned myself to buy a CRT set as the minimum size I needed was 27-30" anything bigger was too big for the room. I have Sky and had purchased a Panasonic E55 to record things so my connection requirements were Component and Scart RGB.
Anyway after studying all the knowledge in these forums it seemed that all LCD units were around £1200 upwards for a good set which was more than I wanted to spend, at this size Plasma didn't come into it, so off I went to Curry's to get my first look at what was available. Like most people here I was dissapointed at the quality of the pictures because of the feeds and the set up of each unit. So I was just about to go and look at CRT when I saw a Logik 27" LCD set for £699 on offer. As usual there was no salesman available so I picked up the remote and started playing and to my suprise managed to get what I thought was a pretty good picture. I left to go and do some research and give it some thought.
I then found out that they did a 30" version for £899 in the sales so I went back and they got one out for me and left me playing, it had the connections I needed and I kept wondering what the catch was. I stood back and after playing with other sets tried to compare the screens and kept comming to the same conclusion - it seemed as good as most other sets there but for a lot less money. I watch a lot of football and was concerned about this but the set seems to have a reasonable response time compared to others so after a lot of haggling I managed to get the 30" set with a warranty for 5 years for £985, put it in my car and went home to set it up.
So here I am 1 month on watching football in my flat and I am still asking myself what is the catch with this set. I have set it up very well with DVD Video essentials and I love it. Yes the blacks could be a bit better and like all sets if Sky use poor bandwidth it shows but I am really impressed. So it got me thinking - like most people I like to have a good name that people can relate to but how much is that costing me !!!
I also think also because in real terms it was cheap I might be more forgiving but I will say when friends come round they think the picture is great.
I also think that maybe people don't consider the seating distance enough as I sit around 10ft away where as at 5ft away you notice more of the artifacts which is no different to all of the makes.
So my conclusion is -
Read as much as you can before you start looking, go and have a good play with sets where you can compare there and then and finally get the best protection/Warranty you can, these units are unlikely to get repaired for major failures but replaced.
These forums are superb but they can encourage you quite rightly towards the very best but sometimes the vey best is way beyond most peoples expectations and often a lot more money than may be you need to spend.
This post is not a reflection on these forums in anyway as that's what they are here for, I am just posting my comments to encourage people to go ang have look for yourselves you might be suprised depending on your needs.
I have recently purchased a flat in Hemel Hempstead due to work requirements while keeping my main family home in the North. This meant finding myself a decent Television of some sort so turned to these forums for help again. I didn't have a lot of money to spend and had resigned myself to buy a CRT set as the minimum size I needed was 27-30" anything bigger was too big for the room. I have Sky and had purchased a Panasonic E55 to record things so my connection requirements were Component and Scart RGB.
Anyway after studying all the knowledge in these forums it seemed that all LCD units were around £1200 upwards for a good set which was more than I wanted to spend, at this size Plasma didn't come into it, so off I went to Curry's to get my first look at what was available. Like most people here I was dissapointed at the quality of the pictures because of the feeds and the set up of each unit. So I was just about to go and look at CRT when I saw a Logik 27" LCD set for £699 on offer. As usual there was no salesman available so I picked up the remote and started playing and to my suprise managed to get what I thought was a pretty good picture. I left to go and do some research and give it some thought.
I then found out that they did a 30" version for £899 in the sales so I went back and they got one out for me and left me playing, it had the connections I needed and I kept wondering what the catch was. I stood back and after playing with other sets tried to compare the screens and kept comming to the same conclusion - it seemed as good as most other sets there but for a lot less money. I watch a lot of football and was concerned about this but the set seems to have a reasonable response time compared to others so after a lot of haggling I managed to get the 30" set with a warranty for 5 years for £985, put it in my car and went home to set it up.
So here I am 1 month on watching football in my flat and I am still asking myself what is the catch with this set. I have set it up very well with DVD Video essentials and I love it. Yes the blacks could be a bit better and like all sets if Sky use poor bandwidth it shows but I am really impressed. So it got me thinking - like most people I like to have a good name that people can relate to but how much is that costing me !!!
I also think also because in real terms it was cheap I might be more forgiving but I will say when friends come round they think the picture is great.
I also think that maybe people don't consider the seating distance enough as I sit around 10ft away where as at 5ft away you notice more of the artifacts which is no different to all of the makes.
So my conclusion is -
Read as much as you can before you start looking, go and have a good play with sets where you can compare there and then and finally get the best protection/Warranty you can, these units are unlikely to get repaired for major failures but replaced.
These forums are superb but they can encourage you quite rightly towards the very best but sometimes the vey best is way beyond most peoples expectations and often a lot more money than may be you need to spend.
This post is not a reflection on these forums in anyway as that's what they are here for, I am just posting my comments to encourage people to go ang have look for yourselves you might be suprised depending on your needs.