Video Asylum

Posted by Rich H (R) on December 28, 2001 at 13:37:39

In Reply to: "...dammit Kaptn, ah'm a-doon aul ah kenn... posted by petew on December 28, 2001 at 10:19:52:

"back and forth between the 50" true HDTV and the 42" wanna-be...

i actually drew them both on the wall yesterday...not kidding"

No kidding assumed. Remember, you're surrounded by fellow obsessives.
When I stare at my tv I don't even see it anymore. Instead my mind superimposes a sleek, gleaming plasma screen in it's place. Took quite a while to get my wife on board - she'd be perfectly happy with a 12" tv screen, stashed in a corner, partially hidden by a potted plant. But she recognizes the look in my eye, notices my feet aren't touching the ground whenever I view a plasma screen, and she's accepted the inevitable...at some point her tv world is going to change. Besides, I've shown her the measurements; absolutely none of the newer, bigger CRTs will fit in our nice bookcase, which currently houses our 27" TV.
"Honey, this tv is going to die, and the ONLY thing that will fit in it's place will be a plasma." She's defenseless I tell you, defenseless against my onslaught!

Regarding your purchase: tough choice between the 50" and 42." I think you did good. The 42" has even better contrast than the 50."
Also, I saw the 50" yet again and noticed it suffered from phosphor latency in a way that I'd never seen from the 42." I've read that latency is one of the engineering compromises that happens when the size of a plasma increases.

The 50" would be a little large for our room, not to mention that I couldn't in my wildest dreams afford it in Canadian dollars (here it actually works out to over double it's American price). Now I just have to figure out what kind of night job I can take on to buy the 42" set:-)

Please feel free to alert us once you've got your Panny up and runnin.'

Rich H.