Re: Home Entertainment Show 99 (Preston)

["Brendan" <jbh@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Keith,

Haven't been to the Show but agree with your sentiments re use of
widescreen
and partic, re leads.
I simply can not understand how these manufacturers get away with the
pricing and the bull re leads.
Even more disgraceful are the so-called reviewers who describe cables in
the
same terms as they would an amp or a speaker ...... (equally bull++++
terms).  I have enev seen people say that a phono lead 'sounded better when
the connections were reversed' ......................

Ah well ...

Brendan


-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>
To: 'UKHA Discussion' <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Date: 30 October 1999 17:52
Subject: [ukha_d] Home Entertainment Show 99 (Preston)


>Hi All,
>
>Paid a visit to the Home Entertainment Show 99 at the Posthouse Hotel
>Preston. The show is also on tomorrow Sun 31st Oct from 10am -4:30pm.
>
>I was impressed with the Inwall speakers from KEF and the Loudpanel
(Flat
>panel loudspeakers) from Wharfdale.
>
>Plenty of DVD and Home Cinema kit around but most projectors on show
were
>LCD. Seleco have a stand showing the new SVT400 CRT projector with
built in
>line doubler also capable of PC data projection at VGA. The Yamaha
stand
>have a SELECO SVT800 on loan as their picture source and it can handle
PC
>data at 1280x1024 (but it does cost 11 grand)
>
>Plenty of Plasma screens dotted around. Mostly 42" with 852x480 PC
>capability but there is also the new Pioneer 50" plasma that can
display PC
>at 1280x768 widescreen.
>
>One annoying thing was the Widescreen format. Most people were using
the
>Bugs Life DVD and even on the widescreen plasma screens the picture
only
>filled 60% of the height of the screen. In my own personal opinion, to
buy
>a ?10,000 plasma screen and then effectively was ?4000 of it by not
>displaying anything is complete madness. For the time being I will
stick to
>my 28" 4:3 TV as to get the same picture height from a widescreen
set would
>cost me around 2 grand for a 36" WS.
>
>I also failed to be convinced that the phono leads one company were
selling
>were in the salesmans words "outstanding value for money".
The fact that a
>pair of 1 metre phono to phono leads were sold in a wooden presentation
box
>immeadiately said "EXPENSIVE". When he told me they were
?995-00 I couldnt
>beleive that anyone would ever buy them. What really took the biscuit
was
>when he pointed to a rack of leads at a specially reduced price as they
>were "slight seconds".  If his company's products are so good
that they
>deserve such high price tags, how can they sell anything that is less
then
>perfect :-))
>
>Thats my views for what they're worth.
>If anyone else is in the area its worth taking a look.
>
>Keith
>
>Keith Doxey
>http://www.btinternet.com/~krazy.keith
>Krazy Keith's World of DIY Home Automation
>
>
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