Fw: OT: Thinking of buying a Widescreen TV? Sony Proj...

[Gareth_Cook/UK/IBM%LOTUSINT%LOTUS <gcook@xxxxxxx>]

Yep

Just bought a Sony VPLHS1 for a mate - asked for advice etc. We did go to
Mr Howe's house and saw his rebadged Sanyo unit - I thought the sanyo was
better on darks, but my chum thought otherwise. The Sony looks good tho !

The side shot feature is OK - but you'll suffer from what I think they call
"screen door effect" - where the picture is optically shrunk and
twisted,
but the light from the lamp overshoots the screen and goes onto the wall
behind.

We had to pay another £100 for their extra plug unit so we could plug the
component inputs into - comes with a generous 10 foot lead, and allows you
to plug in svideo and composite - as well as some simple switching. The
proejctor has ports for composite and svideo native, but rgb, pc, and
component need this box  (there are cheaper ones with less functions)

The free screen is OK - but he's now purchased an electric ceiling mount -
7 footer. Good projector - very quiet for an LCD - very good indeed.

If you have any more q's let me know...

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Good deal!

I'm looking at upgrading my now 8yr old 28" to a larger wide-screen. I
noticed the new Sony vpl-hs1 cineza LCD projector at about the same price.
Anyone have any experience of this model ? I know it's at the bottom end of
the projector market as such, but seems to be getting favorable reviews.

Scott.


>>> dan@xxxxxxx 28/12/2001 22:11:32 >>>
For anyone interested in buying a new widescreen TV, I have just purchased
the Panasonic TX-36PB50 - a 36 inch widescreen beast.

The picture is superb and of worthy note it has three scarts with *two* of
them RGB enabled.  Also, it is the only TV that I have seen that does
Picture-in-picture with mulitple AV sources.  This means that I can have my
NTL cable as one half of the screen and my little spacewalker PC as the
other half (or windowed) - or my amp monitor output as the picture, or
digital camera and PC, or NTL and camera, etc...

The TV also has two tuners if you still use terrestrial TV meaning it can
do lots of funky Pic-in-pic with the current channel and show you what is
on all other channels, plus tv/text etc.

Anyway there's a review at www.homecinemachoice.com and best deal I found
was at www.empiredirect.co.uk for 1755 quid.

-Dan