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Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2001 1:16
PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Slightly OT: home
cinema
As many of you
are
no doubt aware Home Cinema really is a love of mine (my interest in Home
Automation really is just limited to infra red lights and curtain
control).
I've just laid
out
an obscene amount of cash on a Panasonic 42" plasma display screen and an
Arcam DV-88 DVD player.
I played
Gladiator
on it last night, and it is the best quality picture I have seen outside a
West End cinema. OK, the SIZE of the picture cannot compete with a CRT
projector, but the quality is awesome. This together with the flexibility
of
Plasma (you don't have to shut the curtains and turn off the lights)
warrants
a wholehearted recommendation. The Panasonic doesn't suffer from any of the
posterisation and black level problems traditionally associated with
Plasmas.
The screen on
its
own is good, but it really sings when partnered with the
Arcam.
For those that
are
looking for larger Real Estate, a 50" panel is due early in June, and a 63"
is
rumoured for later in this/early next year.
The 42" retails
for 7,300 (I paid 6,500 including a desktop stand)
50" is expected
at
around 12,000
63" - god
knows.
One of the
reasons
these panels are so expensive is that the manufacturing yield is still low,
as
it was with TFT some years ago. I've read somewhere that they actually make
much larger panels 55-60 inches or so, fire them up, and then cut out the
area
which has no faulty pixels. How true this is, I don't
know.
Just to make
sure
that I'm not viewing with "rose tinted spectacles", Phil Harris (a known
plasma sceptic) is visiting on Good Friday. I'll ask him to post his thoughts
once
he's seen it.
Tim.
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