Panasonic plasma

[Madsumm]

Yes. Beldens.

 

Go to LKS in Sim Lim Tower 2nd floor near the escalator.

Ask them for the best coaxial cable for your cable. Its not too ex.. but the quality improvement is good.

 

Rgds

[David]

SH Digital Box c/w coaxial cable and the RCA cable(Red/White for audio and Yellow for Video). This would very much depend on your TV set, but these days tv set do have this option.

 

If your set have this option, then connect your digital box to the tv set via these cable.

[Caaa]

Seems like you have good knowledge about Plasma & LCD!

 

Care to advise: while all would say Plasma consume moe electricity than LCD, but how is it compare to a CRT? Let say a 42" Plasma vs a 34" CRT? And do plasma have radiation just like CRT?

 

Pardon my ignorance....thanks for advise

[Madsumm]

I would say this in terms of consumption of electricity (Most to the least)

1) CRT

2) Plasma

3) LCD

 

Take into consideration,... SAME SIZE FOR ALL.

For your 42" Plasma and 34"CRT.. I would guess CRT is more. Need to look at the specs for consumption.

 

For radiation, hands down.. only CRT has it.

Plasma and LCD doesn't.

 

Rgds

[Caaa]

Kam xia for info

 

Me also waiting to buy Plasma/LCD....waiting for my 34" CRT (3 years old) to failed

 

Was told before Plasma is just like a compressed CRT since most thing about the same (except burnt mark) where LCD would have respond time, unreal image etc....

 

So wait till my CRT fail, could only see see look look and happy to note each time I check, prices is lower

[Khhyu]

Not really, for plasma, I think it comes with anti glare type of coating on the panel, so it should not be that bad...

 

if that is the con of plasma, then watching tv prog on LCD that is not on HD is even worse.

 

I own both LCD and Plasma, so I'm not just comparing spec but from end user's experience as well.

 

 

I just bought a Samsung 46" HD panel LCD TV. The channel U, art centre and the CNA was suck (a lot of grain) but the channel 5 and 8 are ok. Is they any ways to improve the picture quality of the channels?

[Madsumm]

Haha.. btw.. i no expert, just got some experience in this when i purchase and see HD and plasmas/LCDs.

 

Burnt mark is no longer an issue with the latest Pioneer Plasma. So go for that instead.

 

If you just bought your CRT 3 yrs ago, u will likely need to wait another 5-8 years for it to "expire"..... :)

[Caaa]

u will likely need to wait another 5-8 years for it to "expire"..... :)

 

I tot these days electronic wun last that long.....?

 

Anyway, dun have big budget for TV....maybe around $2.5-3K max, so unlikey can get those with "latest" technology or may in 5-8 years time, newer stuff appear?

[Sony]

Bro,

 

My 5 year old LCD projection TV just konked out again (bulb blown and already replaced once 2 years ago).... need to quickly get a replacement as I don't wanna keep having to do a bulb replacement every 2 years or so. (Its a Samsung Tantus model BTW).

 

Anyway, do you have any recommendation on which to get( Plasma or LCD) and also the model? I want a big screen (46 to 52") but also don't want to spend too much. The Bravia from the website puts it at SGD$16K for the 52" .... that's way, way above my budget.

 

What's your take on the Pana 50" (TH-50PV700H or TH-50PV70H)? Any indicative price to feedback? I haven't had the time to run about the various shops to check them out yet.

 

Thanks for your assistance.

 

BTW, you sell the TVs???

 

No, sadly, I don't sell tv. I was a buyer that did homework, thus I know a bit here and there.

 

If you wanted 50inch or so, it's going to cost like 3 to 5k.

From the comments, I would go for Plasma. So it's either Pana/LG/Hitachi. B&O got one but it's 46K if I'm not wrong

 

Anyway, go to any departmental store and check the price. it shdn't varies a lot.

[Sony]

Sony and Bros here,

 

Is there such thing as using a better coaxial cables to connect my starhub digital box, i heard it would reduce the noise further and improve picture quality.

 

yup, go to Sim Lim or Adephli to check it out. but by how much the improvement, it really depends on how bad your current cable are

[Sony]

ya.. buy a new plasma

 

or wait for the channel to turn HD.

 

at times, you need to check on your tv signal connection.

 

Sadly, there's little you can do (from what I know) except better cable..

 

Others might have some solution if they used LCD.

[Sony]

No lar... nowadays.. CRT will go up lorry in less than 5 years if the QC is not done properly, otherwise, yes, it's 5-10years

[Sony]

nah... you can get a very good 42inch LCD/Plasma at 2 to 2.5k budget.

 

You just need to know where to buy and what to buy

 

 

revive this thread when your CRT up lorry

 

 

BTW, burnt mark doesn't occurs these days as the technology have improved.. those are old grandmother stories from the initial generation of Plasma tv.

 

Even energy consumption of Plasma have come down and setting it at the correct mode will means it's just slightly higher than LCD..

Edited August 8, 2007 by Sony

[Vyap]

I got my plasma made in Japan 50PV600 for exactly 10 days, there is no burnt mark at all. All the recent plasma, technology has improved greatly, no burnt mark at all. Watch TV prog excellent, with DVD even better.

 

any bro got lobang to buy good Home Theatre (HT) system like Bose , Jamo or Morel at good discount? Please share, thinking of getting a HT system to have full surround effect when watching movies. thanks bro

 

cheers

[Cracker]

LCD is better

 

Its so obvious that plasma is losing this game

the no. 1 bane of buying a plasma is that it doesn't support PC input.

 

Even panasonic's viera has to keep coming out with "reasons to choose plasma over LCD chart"

 

I got Sony Bravia V series 46inch. one can argue that the contrast ratio blah blah for plasma is better. but come on, LCD is the way to go.

 

Look at Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi, Samsung, LG, Sharp and other big players, they have stopped producing plasma and concentrate full force on LCD.

 

 

Err.. my plasma has PC input. And even support 1080p/24 frames cinematic quality.

The basic misunderstand is the that both are very different technologies.

 

For movies, its Plasma that have the best "experience" because of how its built. LCD is better for static images coz it has a tendency to have ghosting effect, thus reducing the effectiveness of refresh.

 

Plasma has one issue though, higher electrical requirement as compared to LCDs.

 

For the last sentence u put in is in fact not true. There are basically only 2-3 LCD panel makers. The rest uses one of them. I belief LG and Samsung, even sony uses the same panels. (base on my last knowledge)

 

Comparing it with Plasma, we have basically 2 makers as well, pana and pioneer. Pioneer is already in the 7th generation panels, whereas Sony/Samsung it only to its 4th. Development itself, LCD still has a way to go to beat the quality of plasma in terms of TV/Movies arena, though LCD beats Plasma is presentation and PC applications.

 

Rgds

 

 

The major supplier of LCD panels are from

1) Korea : LG/Philips & S-LCD ( Sony & Samsung joint venture)

2) Japan : IPS (where Hitachi, Panasonic/JVC get their panels), Sharp

3) Taiwan : AUO & CMO

 

In term of panels shipped....the top are : AUO, CMO, Samsung & LG-Philips.

 

I subscribe to newslettr from www.displaysearch.com where they will send weekly summary of the latest happening in the display market...

the latest email from them..stating stagnant in the shipment of plasma panel while the demand in LCD is increasing.. If u can dig up some technical report,,,the problem was plasma makers need to spend more to make Full HD panel compare to their LCD counterpart.

 

In fact, Philips had decided to stop their venture with LG in the plasma biz,,but focus on the LCD panel instead. Pioneer and Panasonice are trying their best to recover their lost market share to LCD...Panasonic believed anything above 37" should be Plasma, hence their LCD only stopped at 32".

[Sony]

eh.. my friend do have a samsung HTS for sale which I have helped to advertise in classified.. so not sure if that is what you wanted.

 

Till I sold off that set for him, guess I can't tell you the lobang for B&O..

 

Actually the above 3, esp bose is not really ideal for HTS.

[Vyap]

Thanks bro sony, eh looking for primarily those brands, Jamo, Morel etc, heard it, e sound quality impressive & small cube good to mount on wall except the sub-woofer.

 

anyone got lobang pls share. I Like the Morel (made in Israel), good design & solid built first launched was $1.3K (5.1system), currently no promotion, (not willing to buy Morel now at $1.7K,), my budget abt $1.3K for a reasonably sound 5.1 speakers, AV receiver not included yet.

[Madsumm]

No lar... nowadays.. CRT will go up lorry in less than 5 years if the QC is not done properly, otherwise, yes, it's 5-10years

 

Prob is, repairing a CRT is really ez and cheap nowadays.