― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:41 (seventeen years ago) link
we have a 50" flat screen and I can assure you we are not dickweeds.
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOMB07 (trm), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:16 (seventeen years ago) link
see, that's what i thought but then i saw this in the paper:
http://www.plasma-lcd-facts.co.uk/myths/energy-use/
"MythPlasma TVs use more power than their LCD rivals.
FactThe reality is that plasma TVs don’t necessarily use any more power than LCDs – a fact which makes perfect sense if you think about how each technology works."
so there you go. disclaimer, this was a panasonic advert and panasonic want to sell you plasma tvs. i would take this with a skipload of salt.
http://callforhelptv.com/callforhelp/shownotes/0283.shtml?regular
Samsung plasma:standby: 1 watt, 0.06 ampsblack screen: 65 watts, 0.58 ampswhite screen: 256 watts, 2.23 ampsred screen: 232 watts, 2.02 ampsblue screen: 231 watts, 2.13 ampsgreen screen: 208 watts, 1.80 ampsstatic: 311 watts, 2.71 amps
Samsung LCDstandby: 10 watts, 0.17 ampsblack screen: 200 watts, 2.55 ampswhite screen: 199, 2.58 ampsred screen: 199 watts, 2.57 ampsblue screen: 198 watts, 2.57 ampsgreen screen: 198 watts, 2.96 ampsstatic: 264 watts, 3.23 amps
seems to vary a lot with what is actually displayed. goths are probably better off with a plasma... (crt readings would be interesting)
(is that our sean carruthers btw?)
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, don't LCDs have a really, really long lifespan? I'd think the only thing that'd be sure to die is the florescent backlight, and they have like a 60,000 hour life. If you're worried about a TV dying at 60,000 hours, you watch too much. Stray pixels might start to go bad, but that's not such a big deal either.
Plasmas don't have as long a lifespan, but they are a lot cheaper (and look better, in my opinion).
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
lcd lifespans are really good, no?
xpost heh
― false cat (sleep), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link
seriously? LCD tvs are the only tvs that have ever really floored me with how clear and sharp the picture is. plasmas dont look that remarkable to me.
― sunny successor (katarina), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― sunny successor (katarina), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
Plasmas aren't a lot cheaper (at non-gigantic sizes, anyway) are they? It's the other way around, I thought.
I seem to be wrong to lump LCD displays in with plasmas when it comes to lifespans. I was just going by what someone once told me, about CRTs lasting for blimmin ever these days (Tombot's experience notwithstanding).
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― The PEW Research Center for Panty-Twisting (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link
CRTs were all like $20 at Best Buy, btw.
― Allyzay heard you got beat up in a club. (Allyzay Eisenschefter), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.unbeatable.co.uk/p_moreinfo/Bush-RF6685VPL-28quot-TV/28026151.html
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
Two minutes ago it had one rating :)
― onimo (nu_onimo), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost Oh!
xpost Ah.
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
the last CRT I bought (five years ago) developed some kind of geometry warp within a year.
(200 pounds is $400 now)
― akm (akmonday), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
and then there was csi miami where apparently ordinary cops fly to brazil on a whim carrying out personal vendettas to catch drug dealing terrorists.
i cant imagine what this stuff is actually like if you can see it properly.
one of them has now taken to going downstairs on a saturday afternoon, turning the tv on, and immediately going to sleep on the sofa. she even says, do you mind if i put the tv on to sleep
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― ^ (cb303), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
He wasn't naturally sadistic. He honestly thought(thinks) that a room without some background noise is too weird.
― PPlains (PPlains), Wednesday, 3 January 2007 23:31 (seventeen years ago) link
I shudder to think what the verb usage might involve.
― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 4 January 2007 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ms Misery (MsMisery), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:19 (seventeen years ago) link
-- TOMB07 (tombo...) (webmail), January 3rd, 2007 5:29 PM. (trm)
lolol YES
― aidsy (aidsy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 02:02 (seventeen years ago) link