Question:
I don't want to go the "connect PC with TV card to LCD monitor" route, so would you suggest LCD as an alternative to CRT?
I saw quite a nice 15" for £500 in Dick-Os the other day (LG). Are bigger screens still dead expensive?
I saw a 19" Samsung in John Lewis for £470 the other day.
Course you did!
:brickwall
Perhaps you missed a zero somewhere?
I had a chat with a Sharp(?) sales rep in John Lewis a while back...
I was looking at the big LCDs and saying to the GF "Wouldn't it be nice if they were 1/10th price?".
He jumped in and said that the prices were set to drop very quickly over the next couple of years and the sizes would go up - this is due to improvements in the manufacturing process driven by economies of scale. Colour LCDs for mobiles, PDAs and laptops will be getting much cheaper as demand for them grows and this will feed up the chain to larger LCDs for television. There are also more manufacturing facilities opening up which increases supply.
I asked him what the advantages were vs. plasma. He said they don't get dimmer over time. He also pointed out that a plasma screen has 3 huge sheets of glass in it which makes them incredibly heavy. By comparison an LCD is about 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight. If you're thinking about hanging one on the wall that's a consideration!
We had a great chat with no sales pressure, he said to keep looking and by the time my 2 year old 32" Sony is on it's last legs a bigger LCD will be cheaper than another 32" CRT.
I wait with baited breath :)
I saw quite a nice 15" for £500 in Dick-Os the other day (LG). Are bigger screens still dead expensive?
Answers:
I saw a 19" Samsung in John Lewis for £470 the other day.
Answers:
Course you did!
:brickwall
Perhaps you missed a zero somewhere?
Answers:
I had a chat with a Sharp(?) sales rep in John Lewis a while back...
I was looking at the big LCDs and saying to the GF "Wouldn't it be nice if they were 1/10th price?".
He jumped in and said that the prices were set to drop very quickly over the next couple of years and the sizes would go up - this is due to improvements in the manufacturing process driven by economies of scale. Colour LCDs for mobiles, PDAs and laptops will be getting much cheaper as demand for them grows and this will feed up the chain to larger LCDs for television. There are also more manufacturing facilities opening up which increases supply.
I asked him what the advantages were vs. plasma. He said they don't get dimmer over time. He also pointed out that a plasma screen has 3 huge sheets of glass in it which makes them incredibly heavy. By comparison an LCD is about 1/4 to 1/3 of the weight. If you're thinking about hanging one on the wall that's a consideration!
We had a great chat with no sales pressure, he said to keep looking and by the time my 2 year old 32" Sony is on it's last legs a bigger LCD will be cheaper than another 32" CRT.
I wait with baited breath :)
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