Hi Guys,
Thought I would give you an update of my hunt for the Sagem 56" on demo...
Easy really, they have one in the main Norwich comet, the one near the old boundary roundabout that was, in the special demo area with the small seats.
Unfortunatly this is not part of the HD demo area, therefore the only feed was the the std comet RF feed showing pop videos that are on all of the std sets ... rather poor performance as you would expect.
I asked the 1st assistant, he said thats all we can offer... and wandered off. second assistant came along and offered to hook a DVD player to it. Much better but the DVD was of cartoons in letterbox mode and difficult to really judge. The guy wanted to turn the audio up so loud that it made the not very steady stand shake.
I then asked to see the off air RF pic from BBC or ITV, not immediatly willing but did finally get to look at an off air pic. As you would expect not great but better than I expected and good bright picture and contrast.
There appeared to be quite a bit of reflection from the store lights but not so much of the frosted glass effect as on the smaller set.
The guy clamed 10,000 hours on the lamp life...
Overall not too conclusive maybe I take a couple of R1 dvd's with me next time (and player)
It was smaller than I expected too ... My 50" picture height is 75cm, this one 70cm...
Hope of interest, just need to find the RD65 on demo somewhere now
Andrew