Home Entertainment Show 99 (Preston)

[Keith Doxey <keith.doxey@xxxxxxx>]

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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