Grundig 42" Plasma TV - WOW !!!!

Advantages: Price - Picture Quality - Functions
Disadvantages: Sound

...Ok Ok...... Being an IT Geek, Im into the lovely modern world of technology..... Only thing is - Technology is also very £££ Keeping up to date, with new technology, and revolutionary accomplishments in technology is not a cheap thing at all. About 6 months ago - I decided that my current 32" Widescreen TV was dated, small, and near enough stone age. I reviewed many different Plasma and also Rear Projection TV's along with LCD displays. One thing thats for sure, the dearest option, doesnt necessarily mean the best quality. I had looked at several screens ranging in price from £2,000 to £5,000. Ok the £5k screens were near enough top end, but for my use this would just be extreme. There were various shops - such as Curry's, Dixons, and also some more specialised Video / Audio shops locally to me that I looked around at...

projectneon 10.02.2006 · Read review
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PANASONIC TH42PX60B 42" Plasma TV

Advantages: Amazing picture quality, HD Ready, NICAM stereo sound, stylish stand.
Disadvantages: No back to the stand which makes it hard to conceal inflexible scart leads.

...I bought this TV at a special online price of £2074 (Curry's website) and it was money well spent! The first time I turned it on I was struck by the excellent picture quality, it really is superb. I looked at a lot of plasmas before I bought this one and it definitely has one of the sharpest pictures and the best colours of anything in its price bracket. The stand doesn't come with the TV for that price and will cost you an extra £100, Alternatively, you can mount it on the wall. If you use the stand and you have DVD players, Sky boxes, game consoles etc. then you might find it difficult to conceal the thick scart leads from view, these tend not to be very flexible and I can't bend mine to fit in the channels on the back of the stand. (the TV comes with 3 scart sockets) The sound compliments the quality of the picture, NICAM...

trumo 15.03.2006 · Read review
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PANASONIC TH42PX60B 42" HD Ready Digital Plasma TV

Advantages: Picture, sound, reliability
Disadvantages: Heavy

...The PANASONIC TH42PX60B is built like a tank. If you want a TV that's not going to let you down go for a Panasonic. I chose Plasma for it's movie smoothness and acurate shadow detailing. This TV is is fantastic in every way. Even the built in sound is such a high standard, I have a £5500 hi-fi that I run the consoles and PC through but for watching TV the speakers really are up to the task, decent reproduction. It has built in freeview, 2 HDMI sockets, 3 scarts, component and a PC input as well as audio inputs. I have mine on the pedestal stand which is really neat and tidy. The TV is VERY heavy (as plasmas are). It handles 720P and 1080I. As a Media Centre display in my lounge its running 1280 X 720 beautifully, the only thing is that being a plasma the screen temporarily burns in icons etc if you play games for a long period. This is...

mystik 31.08.2008 · Read review
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Neovia NEOPL-3950 42" HD plasma

Advantages: Value for money. 42". High Definition. Sound. Good spec.
Disadvantages: Buzzing sound. Some banding. Black levels. No-name brand

...as 720p input, and what you will see will be 1024x768 expanded to widescreen. Good enough to be called HD, but it is not state-of-the-art 1920x1080p. The DVD player can upscale to 1080 progressive, which is a step beyond what this TV can handle. The same applies to 99% of TVs right now. The screen can show a 1080i signal without a problem. So it should be compatible with the upcoming HD-DVD and Blu-Ray players. The previous review refers to a buzzing sound from the transformer, that I can confirm. This is a problem with some plasmas. It can be a distraction sometimes, but you get used to it. The banding effect for sunsets etc is also noticeable. I can mostly get around this by using the DVI digital connection with the NeuNeo. The picture quality can be very realistic if you get your settings right. Turn the contrast up to at least...

Pomerov2000 13.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Neovia NEOPL-4950 42" Plasma TV

Neovia 42" Plasma - A waste of money at any price

Advantages: Incredible specification for the money
Disadvantages: Picture quality and build quality, or rather the lack of

...The Neovia NEOPL-4950 Plasma TV is Neovia's flagship TV, boasting an excellent range of features. Whilst not directly boasting HD capability, its 1024 X 768 resolution with DVI inputs should be capable of dealing with them. The feature list is indeed attractive, boasting better resolution and more features than any other set in its price range (?1700 in January 2006). See www.neovia.biz for the full spec. For me, the major selling points were the high resolution, VGA and DVI inputs, no silver on the set (it's all in a pleasing dark gray), very compact size overall for a 42" display and detachable speakers (I use a separate 5.1 system, so removing the unwanted speakers helps reduce its overall size to far below that offered by any of the competition), and the twin tuner permitting simultaneous split screen of both TV and PC...

Morrs 27.07.2006 · Read review
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HItachi Customer Services

Advantages: Definately none
Disadvantages: No reimbursement

...We purchased a Hitachi 28" Pure Flat Screen TV in the January 2003 sales. A bargain reduced from £600 to £389. Unfortunately by February 2004 we had a problem with it. A grey screen with wavey diagonal lines and it kept turning itself off after about 5 seconds. Anyway - stupid like we didnt take the extended guarantee - which i would advise everyone to do - if you can afford it obviously. The TV was taken away by a local engineer and basically needed some extensive welding and it cost us £170 and we were left without the TV for 3 weeks. Well we werent happy as you can imagine so we tried to contact Hitachi. We telephoned our local Miller Brothers store who supplied it and they only had a fax number for Hitachi - nothing else !!! So I searched the web and found a few addresses and forward the original reciept...

freaklikeme 16.03.2004 · Read review
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Hitachi HDR161 - Very handy!

Advantages: Lots of room for recordings, tapes 2 shows at the same time, can pause live TV
Disadvantages: Your restricted to what you can receive through your aerial, no digital PDC alternative

...Freeview set top boxes that come with a built in hard drive, allowing you to record programmes from any channel the box can receive through your current aerial, through the Freeview platform, onto the hard drive. This model comes with a good size hard drive of, well the model number pretty much gives it away, you guessed it, 160gb! which, Argos says (as does the manual), is the equivalent of approxiemately 80 hours of recordings. It currently costs £129.99 and there is also a cheaper 80gb model which gives you half that space, so about 40 hours of recording time. I guess I was a bit greedy going for the larger model but if I really use it, I want to have room to store some films and TV shows for the weeks ahead and know I can still tape other things for some time to come... the space hasn't been a problem at all so far, I've got about 18...

IzzyS 02.09.2007 · Read review
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ERAY 42" Plasma TV

Advantages: Super HD quality, great for gaming
Disadvantages: No HDMI connections, poor built in audio.

...ERAE EPT 42" Plasma flat screen HD ready TV. I bought this TV about 6 months ago after a long 12 year relationship with an old (but ultra reliable) Toshiba 25" 4x3 aspect ratio surround sound unit. (Now resigned to the job of alternative bedroom entertainment!) Strangely, the purchase of this TV was from the same Currys large Dept' store here in Swindon (paaahh) as the old Toshiba I'd bought in 1996, only now the salesmen seem to be more interested in selling the "extended warrantee" load of old rubbish than the item its self? No thanks, I'll stick with the 1-year guarantee it comes with matey. I recon if all these things function for a year without any problems?you got a good un! I'd been thinking of upgrading for a while and as I'd been granted a new credit card + balance transfer @ 0% for the next 12 months, so the temptation...

mr.blue.sky 02.05.2008 (03.05.2008) · Read review
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NME TV

Advantages: Great music
Disadvantages: Too many advers

...I'm an individual who enjoys a good bit of music. Any genre will generally do if it's 'good' - by that I mean not some terrible cheesy pop song, but generally I'll stick to my indie/rock malarkey. So it's ideal then that the New Music Express has introduced their own TV station - NME TV... Operated by CSC Media Group, it replaced the music channel 'Minx' in November 2007 - which is odd as I believe Minx was more a pop music channel that indie. Upon it's launch, the first song it played was 'Up The Bracket' by the Libertines, so a perfect indication of what this channel would be playing. Like with all music channels, it's input is predominantly music videos - along with copious amounts of adverts - but it does also contain special shows, often highlighting bands with albums recently released or out soon either picking their...

carl.mcqueen 16.12.2009 · Read review
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Scoring a Hit-achi With The Scullery Maid

Advantages: Very neat - seemingly a lot of kit for the money
Disadvantages: Noisy FM in weak reception areas. Choosy CD player

...to throw in a remote control and make it come in at under £50, I?d only be too happy to take one off their hands. So, after all the nasty things I?ve said about DSG (Dixons, Currys and PC World) in the past, this is where I end up, buying a Hitachi AX-M77 CD Micro System for £49.99. I have to say, that for something costing 50 knicker, I was only expecting to come home with something, shall we say, a bit more ?own brand?, a bit more ?Matsui? let?s say. The purchase bit was easy ? they were piled five-high at the end of a display cabinet, and not even the Currys assistant in Hounslow would have dared say ??.and would you like an extended warr?..? at these prices, or at least, maybe the sales pep talk they?d just been given (I got there as they opened their doors) had been just too much to take on board all in one go. Maybe it was...

BNibbles 09.10.2004 (10.10.2004) · Read review
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