Hmmm
I
borrowed
a Pioneer PDP-502MXE for a couple of weeks from
work
This
is a
50 inch plasma
http://www.tridentonline.com/pioneer/monitor/pdp502mxev.shtml
definitely advise anyone who is thinking of Buying to
try
first
A good
toy
for viewing films off the DVD
and
Sky as long as you ignore some of the strange artifacts you get
Seems
some
of the compression doesn’t mix with the Plasma
technology
As for
straight tv viewing it wasn’t very impressive and I was glad to get back to my Sony 32 inch
FD1
I also
have a 42 inch Plasma with serial Digital inputs at
work
This
gives
a much better picture than the 50 inch
I
would
say Plasma for the home has a bit to go yet
And I
would definitely advise anyone who is thinking of Buying to try first as
the
size of the image sometimes distorts the quality of the
picture
Having
said that it probably compare very well compared to
projectors
If I
ever
use these in work I end up with two projectors just to get a decent light
output
Mike Griffiths
-----Original
Message-----
From: Mark McCall
[mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sat 07 Apr 01 13:24
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Slightly
OT:
home cinema
Hmmmmmmmm...that's
a lot of money for a 42" picture.
I'll
stick with my 7 foot image from my CRT thanks.
M.
-----
Original Message -----
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
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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