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Anybody have a strong feeling about a good choice in a 27" TV (that's not Sony?) I need to replace my old, beloved Optonica and 27" direct-view is the biggest I can go due to room/cabinet size, and wife's tolerance for tech toys taking over the living-room. Sony's look nice but are too expensive, which leaves me, I assume, the choice of JVC, Toshiba, or Panasonic in the sub-$350 range. Any strong suggestions or experiences that would help me make this decision?Thanks!
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i have a 27 inch samsung dynaflat tv. i highly recommend it. i looked at many differnt brands and the samsung had the best picture.
...Panasonic. But I got my dad a 27" Panasonic Tau flat panel at CC last winter and it's a GREAT TV. Excellent picture, good color, no problems whatsoever. It retailed for around $500 or so and I got it at close-out for around $325. I like the picture just as much as my former Sony 32" XBR. Plus, it's black, not silver like my 34" widescreen HDTV. Lots of sales will be going on now...check it out.I love my Pany DVD players too - an RP56 and an RP91.
I have a samsung 27 inch flat screen. It's very good.
I always liked the Sony Trinitrons. I have a 27" I bought about 8 years ago for $550.00. It was a display model. Still running fine as a bedroom set. Maybe a display model would be a good price for you? Or used? I would stay away from Panasonic, they have had issues lately. Good luck.
James
Sonys (and most other brands) have very incaccurate color temperature,
way too blue, this makes the set look better in the store and
in bright lighting, but destroys accurate color rendition. I have
never seen a Sony (besides their 10-15 thousand dollar broadcast monitors) I could watch.
As far as I know, every CRT-type TV has adjustments for color temperature. This is required, if for no other reason, than to compensate for the differing emmision strengths of each color gun, epecially over time.You might be right about them being adjusted too blue in the stores, but its a quick fix to readjust them at home.
I've been having problems with Sony for the past few years, so I've sworn of their gear until they get their quality control issues to the level of the performance quality.I had a Sony VHS VTR that was a great piece of equipment... until the brakes got messed up and the rubber all started to deteriorate. Perhaps two years of work out of that piece. It cost as much to repair as to replace, so I chose the latter.
I had a Sony single CD player that was just sweet... until it started to screw up tracking on CDs and then just not read them after a few months. I got about 3 years out of that.
I had a Sony AV970 Pro-logic Receiver that sounded amazing... seriously, it had a perfect sound field for 2 channel listening. Clean, quiet, full of features, and beat most every single receiver they made for the next few years. That is until it started turning on in the middle of the night while on the lowest FM band... the one where absolutely NO ONE broadcasts so you get white noise. Yes, try waking up at 3am to that. Took it to a few places and they couldn't figure out the problem. Then it stopped turning on unless it was unplugged for a while. Then once it was on, it would lock up and not turn off unless it was unplugged. It is still one of my favorite amps ever, but I just can't leave it plugged in. I ended up replacing it with a Denon 6.1 receiver recently... it sounds almost as good, but has nowhere near the quality of features. Depressing. Still, I got about 4 years of life out of it before it started acting up.
It's not just me, either. A friend had a more recent Sony receiver that was even nicer than mine. But then the right channel died. A different friend had a Sony 5 disc changer... stopped reading CDs and rotating. The sob stories go on.
Personally I have never owned a Sony TV, nor do I want to. They do look good, but I have always felt them to be overpriced. Given my previous issues with Sony, I think I have reason to be skeptical of their durability as well.
Trinitron is no Sony invention and has nothing to do with ANY technology from Sony.
Trinitron tubes are in almost ANY TV you can buy today. Sony just stick with this term cause it sounds good.
Trinitron means same as Euro-Tube, or In-Line Tube, with In-Line being the most wide spred term.
It is a tube coming after Delta tube which has some issues that In-Line does not. It is all about how guns in tube are positioned. Triangle position called Delta, and 3 in line called In-Line or Trinitron.
Also Sony TVs are not even close to Panasonic. And even more far away from Grundig and Normende. This guys make TVs that you fall on your but when you see it. To bad they do not export, so you have to buy it in their countries. And they do not make NTSC, at least not to my knowledge.
The Trinitron was INVENTED by Sony and launched in Japan in 1968 in a 13" TV. Trinitron technology uses a single-gun, three-beam aperture grille, and a cylindrical flat screen. Sony later introduced this technology in TV's for the USA and other markets.The Trinitron was the world's first TV receiver ever to be awarded an Emmy. The Emmy Award is to the TV industry what the Academy Award is to the motion picture industry--the highest of all honors. The award is presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to acknowledge television's best programs, actors, producers and TV stations AS WELL AS ground-breaking technology for broadcast hardware systems.
Sony later used the flat Trinitron technology in large computer graphics screens while others still used those old looking rounded CRT screens. I know. I worked in the professional computer graphics industry for 9 years at Silicon Graphics. Everyone wanted the large flat Sony monitors - nothing else would do.
The only reason you see this Trinitron technology used by others today is because Sony's PATENT RAN OUT.
It's just a name then? I thought it had something to do with the tube. I noticed that all Trinitrons have a relatively flat face vertcally, as opposed to the shperical shape on most tubes. Trinitron's been around for a while, I've seen Sony TV's from the late 70's/early 80's with the Trinitron name.
The JVC D series can be had for cheap & look good after some adjustment. The same goes for the Toshiba. Panasonic seems to have more than it share of repairs.
Thanks for the recommendation. I've had a lot of Panasonic gear in the past and always been satisfied, but having bought & returned two Panasonic VCRs in the last year I've been leery of buying their stuff anymore. And the new flat-screen Tau's don't look so good to me. So I'll check the D-series.
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