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In Reply to: Plasma Screen TV posted by ronroseb on October 22, 2002 at 11:30:54:
there's a ton of information and data posted on this website, but beware as there may be a business relationship with one of the web sellers of the gear...that being said, it gives you a deep pond to fish. spend a few hours checking all the buttons and you will likely learn more than any retail salesperson you'll ever meet at the audio/video stores.i bought a 42 Panny a while back and it still blows my mind...and the price has dropped by a third since i bought it!
thing is, you have to get yourself a good source and a decoder...
for me, the best souce is the free digital sginals broadcast by the networks and your local PBS station--and you can pick them up with a simple bowtie UHF antenna hooked to your decoder/receiver if you live close enough, otherwise you might have to put a $30 (Sears or Radio Shack might have one) Magnavox array with a corner reflector (yagi) in the attic and run a coax down to the set.
to see what kind of antenna you need and where to aim it, check this site:
"http://www.antennaweb.org"
if you enter your address they will give you a map showing all the analog and digtal TV towers within a hundred miles of your house, what stations they carry, what direction they are and how far, and even tell you what size/power antenna you need.
but if you get a plasma screen you'll still need a receiver/decoder...
i've been very happy with the Sony HD100. it does everything.
the high definition signal (1080i) from the terrestrial broadcasts is by far the best TV image you can get (and it's free!), followed by the satellite dish signals. cable is the worst and the most un-relyable, and there's no reason for that monolopy to do anything about it...because like high-end auido, the masses can't tell high-end video from an Etch-a-Sketch.
an outboard processor/scaler might be the ticket to make your plasma equal to the viewscreen on the Starship Enterprise...
don't even worry if you decide to save a few bucks by not getting a fully HD capable display...the 480p screens will re-scale a 1080i signal and give you a picture that will stun you stupid...and you won't see this in stores either...i don't know what those guys are doing wrong but they can't demo a plasma to save their skins.
...i almost bought a Runco processor (you gotta be sick to think you can improve on a 42 Panny)...but then there's more cables and another darn power cord and another space on the shelf...hell, the way the technology's going, a year from now we'll all be watching on "picture walls" like Arnold had in "Total Recall"
yea the plasma hanging on the wall with nothing under it is so cool it looks good unplugged! you gotta hide your wires between the studs behind the screen--so it looks like art! it is art--a technological tour-de-force. people will come in and stare at it like it's Elvis...don't even turn it on, just let them get used to the idea that a TV doesn't need a big farkin' box that fills the entire room with ugly...
take back your space, man.
just do it.
now beam me up Scotty!
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