RE: Slightly OT: home cinema

["Phillip Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

Stacked CRT projector arrays...

 

...how many nightmares have they caused me over the years!

 

I demo'd a PDP-502 last year and was not at all impressed ... the red on black credits at the start of "Blade" flared horrendously and were almost unreadable. There were obvious steps in what should have been smooth grads and the image just seemed "slow" ... a bit like watching a mouse pointer on a cheap LCD laptop screen. (But not as bad of course.) I went to the demo having heard very good things about the 502 and with the intention of not being an anti-plasma bod but actually wanted to check it out before I hit the plastic big time. I'm glad that I did go and didn't hit the plastic...

 

I have an NEC P6 CRT projector and a TView QuadScan and the picture quality has been far in excess of anything that I've seen from plasmas *TO DATE*. I'm looking forward to seeing this one of Tims as I want to see how they've come along in the last nine months - however I'm not going to just take other peoples word on how good they are any more.

 

 

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Griffiths [mailto:mike@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 07 April 2001 14:00
To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Slightly OT: home cinema

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@xxxxxxxSubject: 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 -----

From: Timothy Morris

 

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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