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Finally upgraded from a CRT. The picture is awesome from directly in front of the screen. Seriously like "wow!"...
... but move one seat to the side and it's pretty fn average. Disappointed actually. Thankfully picked up cheap as probably last one in country.
Unreal in the store. CNET's TV of last year. Wish I'd gone plasma.
I know what you mean... as I just upgraded the games room fat-back CRT for a Samsung LCD LED full HD 40" job... whilst it looks very special on Blu-ray and gaming, it is not that good at FTA SD TV and to be honest I prefer my 5yo 1366 x 768 res Hitachi plasma.
^^^^^^ I did a bit of research and a lot of looking and tracked down a pre Pioneer bankruptcy Pioneer Kuro plasma. Beautiful, natural, fast TV. BUT my old telly (Loewe digital flat screen) was superb. CRT is a great looking technology that is STILL way better than LCD.
In junk buying mode a few years ago we were shopping for a new tele to replace a 34cm CRT portable TV we had as our main TV
We were poor but we were happy.
So when shopping we compared the LCDs to the plasmas of the time. There were no LED LCDs around back then. I thought the plasmas had a better picture by a long shot and ended up buying a Samsung plasma. We still have it and its working fine. We will keep it till it dies.
What the hell do you do with a dead plasma TV? Does the council pick up taken them? Perhaps giving it to a furniture shop so they could use it as a prop. They weigh a bloody ton.
