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Re: First of all, forget the 42"...

Posted by Peter Earnshaw (A) on November 22, 2003 at 11:39:07

In Reply to: Re: First of all, forget the 42"... posted by audionutge@yahoo.com on November 22, 2003 at 08:29:15:

internal scalers: I did wonder about that, but my local specialist told me the Fuji didn't have one and he wasn't aware of any plasmas available that did have one.... is he lying?

Mind you, he's a much, much more informed buy than the rival shop down the street who demoed me a Panasonic 42" plasma with some £1k scaler fitted before it to "improve" the picture and, when I asked them to remove it so I could see the difference, dicovered absolutely *no* difference whatsoever. All they could say was "if you look on the Gladiator DVD, which I can't find at the moment, then it's much more obvious what the scaler is doing" but despite which I could clearly see the speckles of noise in the black when I stuck my face up close to the display. Very disappointing.

I've now got a shortlist of the Fuji 50" and the Pioneer 50", either the 503 (cheaper) or the 504 (potentially better, but with garish black surround). I even emailled Pioneer UK and asked where I could see the new models, but their reply was simply that they were to be released at the end of November, and so I couldn't see them anywhere (which doesn't explain how a really, really poor shop in Tottenham Court road managed to have a 42" one three weeks ago, nor how Selfridges could have a 42" one on the wall on Friday night). Ultimately it means the ones in this country have probably been handed over to reviewers to drool over, and preferred stores like Selfridges and Harrods to stick on their walls, and there's no chance I'll get one by Xmas if I order now... :(

Let's take a different tack. The new Pioneer has an HDMI input. If I stick with Component inputs as are provided on the Fuji, am I going to lose out? At least, not until ten years time when we get hologram TVs from MitsuiFujiSonysonic?

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