Hi All,
Picture quality is excellent especially on DVD's and during my brief experiment of watching the footy I didnt notice any problems with it. There is a slight blur when the camera is moving around very quickly so the entire screen is changing but nothing thats concerning me. Watching the new shrek DVD revealed awesome picture quality, definitely one to show it off!
Once we worked out that we had to press the button in the hidden compartment on the side of the TV the screen size and focus was sorted. Up until that point it was sloping off one side, but after doing that it calibrated itself and is fine now.
The screen goes very dark if youre anything than eye level with it and the viewing from angle is good up until about 45/50 degrees
I cant see any black scrolling lines on it anywhere though?
The different picture sizes are also very good. Never owned one of these before so cant comment on the difference from <100 and 100 MHz boxes, sorry
If you read through what happened your see that I saved quite a bit thanks to a comment on a price promise on here. In total I paid £1695.33 INCLUDING a Sony SLVSE720 video recorder VAT and delivery (old set was a combo). In that respect Empire were good by honouring the price promise and the sales men on the phone were reasonably helpful apart from the typical not returning calls which is the norm' for all call centres nowadays.
Empire will be tested again though as the manual that I got sent was in German only!
The user interface for the TV software is also worth of mention. Very easy to navigate and lots of picture setting stuff to tweak.
We are going to buy a cabinet to put all the other stuff on and put it beside the tele or if I spend some money get some long scart leads and put it all somewhere else in the room. Not sure if they do a stand for this but if they did I wouldnt take it as if youre at the wrong height watching it the picture goes very dark.
The combo remote control is also worth a mention very easy to use as its nicely arranged.
Im very pleased with this TV and would recommend it.
I have enclosed some more piccies and two with the measurements asked for
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Cheers,
Westy.