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dumbee
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Being a TOTAL newbie to plasma far removed from the world of technology of Home Cinema and reading hundreds of threads. Literally!!
I have decided to retrace my decision process to help others that may be able to benefit from it.
1) Decided to rush out and buy Tiny - straight off - did not do any research. Fortunately for reasons too long winded to go into here - that option did not materialise. (nothing to do with Tiny Service).
- Conclusion: things happen for a reason, I have seen very few threads in this and other forums actually complimenting the Tiny product which I was assured had no problems and (psssst was built on Samsung panels anyway). No comment.
2) Stumbled around on the internet - flood of information and stumbled into this forum. (after dabbling a bit in ******).
- Conclusion: there are many forums out there - look around and you will find they more or less say the same thing - but AVForums seems to be the most diverse I have come across so far. - and no I do not work for AV Sales.
3) Went to Dixons/PCWorld/Comet to review a number of screens. LG Panasonic Tiny. Received a mix of good and bad service. Comet believe it or not were about the best (and they currently have a good special on the LG 42") - Almost bought the LG 42 ", but saw one or two problems materialising in the threads about "running green dots" and a couple of items on getting the LATEST panel - Nov 2004 nbot June 2004 etc - scared me off. And plus it always scares me when shops start discounting products (end of range and so on).
Also - could not get a REAL demo from any of these shops - I had seen re-runs of Finding NEMO/Shark Tale/and Shrek more times than I wish to remember. Could not see enough of sport and real life video. And - also met a couple of very interesting sales people - I mean - guys - come on if hyou want to get someone to sell a product - get them to know what they are talking about - some of the sales people new even LESS than I did.
4) Sent a whole lot of messages to a particular member of the AV Forums group - THANKS HD. I still owe you the VBeer - on its way.
5) Decided on Panny 7. Simple setup with Plasma connected to JS Converter (Scart to VGA) running out of a Pioneer VXSC502 AMP - into which my Sky+ and DVD is plugged (well that is the plan anyway). All in all 3 Scart leads, 1 VGA to VGA, oh also a couple of speakers. Placed order this morning - now expecting delivery.
So all those people that are extremely confused about all of this - like I was - at the end of the day - lets see if these forums and the so called Internet - lives up to expectations. Oh and lets check out AV-Sales service at the same time - will keep you posted.
Being a TOTAL newbie to plasma far removed from the world of technology of Home Cinema and reading hundreds of threads. Literally!!
I have decided to retrace my decision process to help others that may be able to benefit from it.
1) Decided to rush out and buy Tiny - straight off - did not do any research. Fortunately for reasons too long winded to go into here - that option did not materialise. (nothing to do with Tiny Service).
- Conclusion: things happen for a reason, I have seen very few threads in this and other forums actually complimenting the Tiny product which I was assured had no problems and (psssst was built on Samsung panels anyway). No comment.
2) Stumbled around on the internet - flood of information and stumbled into this forum. (after dabbling a bit in ******).
- Conclusion: there are many forums out there - look around and you will find they more or less say the same thing - but AVForums seems to be the most diverse I have come across so far. - and no I do not work for AV Sales.
3) Went to Dixons/PCWorld/Comet to review a number of screens. LG Panasonic Tiny. Received a mix of good and bad service. Comet believe it or not were about the best (and they currently have a good special on the LG 42") - Almost bought the LG 42 ", but saw one or two problems materialising in the threads about "running green dots" and a couple of items on getting the LATEST panel - Nov 2004 nbot June 2004 etc - scared me off. And plus it always scares me when shops start discounting products (end of range and so on).
Also - could not get a REAL demo from any of these shops - I had seen re-runs of Finding NEMO/Shark Tale/and Shrek more times than I wish to remember. Could not see enough of sport and real life video. And - also met a couple of very interesting sales people - I mean - guys - come on if hyou want to get someone to sell a product - get them to know what they are talking about - some of the sales people new even LESS than I did.
4) Sent a whole lot of messages to a particular member of the AV Forums group - THANKS HD. I still owe you the VBeer - on its way.
5) Decided on Panny 7. Simple setup with Plasma connected to JS Converter (Scart to VGA) running out of a Pioneer VXSC502 AMP - into which my Sky+ and DVD is plugged (well that is the plan anyway). All in all 3 Scart leads, 1 VGA to VGA, oh also a couple of speakers. Placed order this morning - now expecting delivery.
So all those people that are extremely confused about all of this - like I was - at the end of the day - lets see if these forums and the so called Internet - lives up to expectations. Oh and lets check out AV-Sales service at the same time - will keep you posted.