IIRC the mounts come in at around 150
quid
for either the desktop stand or the wall mounting kit. You might want to
consider a camouflaged dish in the garden, plasma screens are notoriously
intolerant
of poor quality signals. Unless you have a perfect terrestrial signal it
WILL
look horrible.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: graham_howe
[mailto:graham@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2002 15:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Bedroom
telly
--- In ukha_d@y...,
"Timothy Morris" <timothy.morris@i...>
wrote:
> Forget the paper specs unless you want to
use
it as a PC monitor.
The
> speakers aren't great - similar quality
to
speakers that come with a
> domestic telly - I don't use them though,
I
use my AV amp. I don't
have
> a tuner, as all reports I've seen is that
it
is a pile of crap. I
use
> Sky digital as my tuner, connected via
svideo.
>
>
>
> Tim.
>
Thanks Tim, we don't have anything other than
the
basic 5 channels at
the moment as there is no cable in our village
and
I don't
particularly want a dish on the walls of the
house
(I might not even
be allowed to put it up with the listed status
and
conservation
area). At some point I may put a dish in the
garden somewhere. As I
said, I can use Tivo as the source, though
that
does present a couple
of minor problems:
1. not possible to record and watch live TV on
two
separate channels
(this may not be a problem when Tivo has
'learnt'
a bit more about
our viewing habits as we won't watch so much
live
TV, but it is still
a problem during actual live events such as
football!)
2. no teletext (not required for TV listings
of
course, but
occasionally accessed for sports results,
lottery
numbers, weather
etc.)
I suppose the solution to 1. is to use a
normal
video recorder to
time shift whatever it is that Tivo would have
recorded whilst we are
watching the live TV. The solution to 2. is
probably to use the
internet to get the information (in fact I
could
probably cache it on
the local server and display it quickly over
the
intranet as most
information requirements could be
predicted).
It is certainly very tempting to go for the
Panasonic, I may well
suggest this when I get home. What sort of
mounting is likely to be
included in the price, or do I have to buy
that
separately?
Graham
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