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Looking for something fairly simple, want decent picture/sound quality. Saw the Sony Wega one but it's a tad pricey for a 20" tele at £300. Anything similar in quality but cheaper?
Cheers
4:3 :eek:
Look in your local ad trader m8y, pick up something for £40 :D
:p
20" is the size for old style conventional tubes. 21" is FST size and FST 4:3 sets are pretty damn cheap anyway. A nice Philips, Thomson or Panny set should do you. Plenty of them about £150. You may be able to get a 20" conventional set new for less than £100. Those wierd looking LG sets were sold for less than £100 back along. I'm pretty sure you can get 20" albas for about £110. Really though 21" fst is the way to go.
Originally posted by Bolch
Looking for something fairly simple, want decent picture/sound quality. Saw the Sony Wega one but it's a tad pricey for a 20" tele at £300. Anything similar in quality but cheaper?
Cheers
Go to your nearest Tesco! They have the Sony Wega for £249 or less.
Dave
Bonzo & Dave - thanks for the help chaps.
I was serious actually! :p
Does it have to be 4:3? Lidl have a 28" WS for £190 atm!!!
Widescreen TVs seem too much hassle. Anamorphic, none anamorphic etc. Games machines (especially the older ones) arn't that compatable. At the end of the day you're still going to get movies that still have black borders so why not have them whenever you watch a film in widescreen?
EDIT - That and the fact the bird doesn't like em :p
Good, 'cos your first reason was pants :lol:
Actually I'm deadly serious. I think a 4:3 is far less hassle. You won't ever get a stretched picture on a 4:3. And the only borders you can get are top and bottom.
But I've not really looked into widescreen tvs, but from what I've seen they look more hassle than they're worth.
Well, my little bro has a Wharfdale 28" WS which looks the exact same as the Lidl one (I'm guessing it's just rebadged).
It has various modes you flick through with a button, it's no hassle. But I guess I'm not going to sell you on this one ;)
I was serious about having a look in Adtrader tho...
Originally posted by Bolch
Actually I'm deadly serious. I think a 4:3 is far less hassle. You won't ever get a stretched picture on a 4:3. And the only borders you can get are top and bottom.
But I've not really looked into widescreen tvs, but from what I've seen they look more hassle than they're worth.
They have their virtues, but I'm glad to see you haven't fallen for the hype - and you're absolutely right about a 4:3 set being less hassle (put it like this: I wasn't sorry when I replaced my old 32" widescreen set with a 43" 4:3 one, and two years later I still haven't had any regrets).
The only important thing is to make sure that it has a 16:9 widescreen mode - if so, then you'll get the correct aspect ratio every time with no fiddling whatsoever, even with unconventional material.
Cheers
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4:3 :eek:
Look in your local ad trader m8y, pick up something for £40 :D
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:p
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20" is the size for old style conventional tubes. 21" is FST size and FST 4:3 sets are pretty damn cheap anyway. A nice Philips, Thomson or Panny set should do you. Plenty of them about £150. You may be able to get a 20" conventional set new for less than £100. Those wierd looking LG sets were sold for less than £100 back along. I'm pretty sure you can get 20" albas for about £110. Really though 21" fst is the way to go.
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Originally posted by Bolch
Looking for something fairly simple, want decent picture/sound quality. Saw the Sony Wega one but it's a tad pricey for a 20" tele at £300. Anything similar in quality but cheaper?
Cheers
Go to your nearest Tesco! They have the Sony Wega for £249 or less.
Dave
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Bonzo & Dave - thanks for the help chaps.
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I was serious actually! :p
Does it have to be 4:3? Lidl have a 28" WS for £190 atm!!!
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Widescreen TVs seem too much hassle. Anamorphic, none anamorphic etc. Games machines (especially the older ones) arn't that compatable. At the end of the day you're still going to get movies that still have black borders so why not have them whenever you watch a film in widescreen?
EDIT - That and the fact the bird doesn't like em :p
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Good, 'cos your first reason was pants :lol:
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Actually I'm deadly serious. I think a 4:3 is far less hassle. You won't ever get a stretched picture on a 4:3. And the only borders you can get are top and bottom.
But I've not really looked into widescreen tvs, but from what I've seen they look more hassle than they're worth.
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Well, my little bro has a Wharfdale 28" WS which looks the exact same as the Lidl one (I'm guessing it's just rebadged).
It has various modes you flick through with a button, it's no hassle. But I guess I'm not going to sell you on this one ;)
I was serious about having a look in Adtrader tho...
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Originally posted by Bolch
Actually I'm deadly serious. I think a 4:3 is far less hassle. You won't ever get a stretched picture on a 4:3. And the only borders you can get are top and bottom.
But I've not really looked into widescreen tvs, but from what I've seen they look more hassle than they're worth.
They have their virtues, but I'm glad to see you haven't fallen for the hype - and you're absolutely right about a 4:3 set being less hassle (put it like this: I wasn't sorry when I replaced my old 32" widescreen set with a 43" 4:3 one, and two years later I still haven't had any regrets).
The only important thing is to make sure that it has a 16:9 widescreen mode - if so, then you'll get the correct aspect ratio every time with no fiddling whatsoever, even with unconventional material.
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