Oh what new TV to get?
I popped into the large Curry's electrical store in Exeter today whilst taking the kids for a pizza to have a little look around at the TVs ... I have been sort of hankering after getting an LCD or Plasma TV for a while but have been putting it off due to the expense, but my big fat Sony CRT is starting to lose its colour (its only a few years old so why I ask is it doing that, but that's another question and story) and everything goes a bit pink for a while, so I might finally indulge myself.
To be honest it is also the first time I have seen a proper HD picture and the difference side-by-side with a non-HD picture is absolutely amazing, but only through a BluRay player, the Disney animations like Wall-E were particularly startling, the HD picture through Freesat or Sky was absolutely terrible, compressed so much to be a pointless exercise.
After looking first at the size of screen, I think a 40 or 42" would be the maximum size that we could comfortably have for our size and shape of living room, but how do I choose; the sizes of TV are scattered around, you cannot compare one size TV with other makes and models of the same size against each other.
Coupled with the fact of them being scattered about, some were playing BluRay HD but most werent, the only ones that were playing BluRay were the most expensive ones, like the LED Backlit LCD TVs making them look far far far better than any others giving them a really unfair advantage ... yes this does look great but its because its the only one playing from a decent source!
You would think buying a TV would be fairly straightforward, pick the size you want and the one with the best picture; but no, I cannot see how that could be done without spending an entire day and your own personal assistant to plug in and play the same DVD in each set in turn to compare them.
I feared this was a totally impossible task and it put me off completely (not helped was a wife and two kids who wouldn't have enjoyed this experience at all) ... Curry's could have sold me a TV easily today, instead I walked out the store disheartened and empty-handed.
Fail to Curry's on multiple fronts I think!
