Wall Mounted Television c/d?

TVs and monitors have always seemed to me to be the one electronics thing that hasn't tumbled in price. I mean, yes, flat screens are much cheaper than they used to be, but they doesn't seem much cheaper than a CRT one used to be (though what counts as large screen has increased, of course). I mean, it's not like the way DVD players are now given away for peanuts. Buying a decent TV is going to cost me hundreds of pounds.

CRTs were all like $20 at Best Buy, btw.

http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/p_moreinfo/Bush-RF6685VPL-28quot-TV/28026151.html

Two minutes ago it had one rating :)

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But, yeah, as small a telly as possible, to minimise the visibility of compression artefacts, I reckon. (Remember when you were sat really closer to the TV at Porkpie/Vicky's one New Year's Eve, Tracer? How bad it looked?) Perfect for Lovejoy reruns.

the last CRT I bought (five years ago) developed some kind of geometry warp within a year.

(200 pounds is $400 now)

It is incredibly confusing trying to research this stuff online. I thought this was the big way people were making money on the Internet, by pointing people towards stuff to buy in a helpful way. But I feel like I'm just casting my hook into the sea and coming up with an alphabet soup of model numbers every time.

It's absurd that there are so many TVs, and kinds of TVs. How many different "viewing needs" can people actually have? There should be only two kinds of television made in the world. A big, HD one for rich people and a little, normal one for poor people. Economies of scale would mean that the little one would end up costing like 20 dollars and the big one would be like 300.

HD pisses me the fuck off actually.

1. none of your DVDs are in HD.
2. none of your video games are in HD.
3. odds are hardly any of your television is in HD.

AND! the cost for upgrading three out of three of these things to BE in HD is entirely passed on to you, the consumer.

Fuck 'em.

Xbox 360 and PS3 are HD, and the original Xbox, the Gamecube, and the Wii look way better in 480p on a HDTV than on an SD set. The PS2 does admittedly look horrible on most HDTVs.

DVDs also look way way better on an HDTV, and if you like primetime network shows, most of that is in HD. Unless it's a gameshow or Extreme Home Makeover.

I just really like HDTV. It's great and seriously doesn't have to be that expensive. Seeing an old movie in HD is especially exciting, because you're not used to seeing that much detail on something so old.

Yes, but you have to upgrade to an HD receiver to get any of the HD programming (most cable channels at this point have HD sister stations as well). Which is no small feat sometimes, and if you are in an apt situation that could potentially mean you are completely screwed (if the base receiver that spreads out to everyone else is not the right type, no amount of HD home receiver is going to help you, in fact you won't be able to watch television at all).

So, yeah, if you just need a cheap tv for watching movies or the occasional tv show I wouldn't sweat the HD for two seconds.

(I have a tiny little Sony Widescreen thing, and I quite like it, although I have no aerial so it shows nothing but Zelda.)

Wall Mounted Woman c/d?

I have comcast cable and the HD receiver doesn't cost any more than a regular cable box ($5/month). Newer TVs usually have HD tuners built in, so you can get the networks for free.

It's a crappy cheapo British band. Like Alba.

i've had a bush tv for about 12 or 13 years and it's in perfect working order, even the remote control!

And you can only get the networks using a tuner for free depending on where you live, again. Not everybody will have that capability.

It's really not a big deal, being as it looks the s ame as a regular tv if you don't have the proper receiver but it's not exactly the walk in the park for all of us that you're claiming. It is actually a really trinormous bitch in a lot of locales to get HDTV.

http://images.ciao.com/iuk/images/products/normal/642/Medion_MD3723_Disney_Princess_TV__6490642.jpg

and yeah, plasma has definitely gotten cheaper. those 42" panasonic plasmas -- which everyone raves about -- can now be had for $1200. i could have gotten a larger tv easily for my money, but: i didn't want anything bigger than 32" (altho now i kinda wish i had gotten the 40" samsung 1080p which is v pretty), and there are huge variants of quality in between brands and models. definitely research the shit out of it before you buy.

http://audiovisual.kelkoo.co.uk/b/a/pr_1/14206304/100311823.html

If so, it's $400 more expensive in the UK.