Good TV?

[peteyt]

For my birthday I got a PS3 and love it.

The only problem is my TV is old - no HDMI port, not HD etc.

I heard that for Blu-Ray players your best having a HD ready TV or you might as well just buy normal DVD's as the picture quality isn't that much different on a normal TV as compared with normal DVD's.

I've found a cheap TV and because it's Tesco I'll get 20 percent discount. I'm just not sure if this is good enough.

http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.210-7084.aspx

Thanks

[Oleh]

Eww HD Ready. Certainly cheaper than the 32" HD Ready I had a year ago (£325) but only £99 cheaper than my 42" Full HD tv I bought from best buy.

But for the price I guess it's good if you're getting 20% off too.

[Casio]

This is really cheap and its a 32" also

[peteyt]

Eww HD Ready. Certainly cheaper than the 32" HD Ready I had a year ago (£325) but only £99 cheaper than my 42" Full HD tv I bought from best buy.

But for the price I guess it's good if you're getting 20% off too.

Isn't HD ready and full HD just the same bar one is better quality.

[Misawa]

HD Ready TVs can play a maximum of 1080i resolution, whereas Full HD TVs are able to go the whole 1080p. TV shopping on a budget is difficult. It's hard to find non-brand name TVs that are not only Full HD, but have good picture quality and non-tinny sound. It's better to pay a bit extra for a brand name TV. You can get 22" brand name, Full HD TVs for under £200, which is better than paying £199, even with a 20% discount, for a 32" Technika.

[N!ck]

HD Ready TVs can play a maximum of 1080i resolution, whereas Full HD TVs are able to go the whole 1080p.

This is incorrect. The resolution that it outputs has no effect on the inputs in can take. That us purely down to how good the TV is at processing signals. For instance, my "HD Ready" TV can take a full 1080p input no problem and can do 24p simulation for blu-ray.

Granted, none of the TVs mentioned stand a chance of even processing anything more than 1080i.

[peteyt]

HD Ready TVs can play a maximum of 1080i resolution, whereas Full HD TVs are able to go the whole 1080p. TV shopping on a budget is difficult. It's hard to find non-brand name TVs that are not only Full HD, but have good picture quality and non-tinny sound. It's better to pay a bit extra for a brand name TV. You can get 22" brand name, Full HD TVs for under £200, which is better than paying £199, even with a 20% discount, for a 32" Technika.

Where's best to get them then as a lot of the Full HD TV's seem to be a lot more

[Casio]

This is my current TV, the image quality on this is exactly the same as my brothers on a 26" LED HD Ready TV.

[Apolva]

I'd try to avoid the cheap brands like Tecknika.

Some retail shops advertise clearance stock online (slightly outdated models), e.g. Richer Sounds:

In/near Cambridge:
http://www.richersounds.com/showclea...a+32xv635.html

In/near Watford or Maidstone:
http://www.richersounds.com/showclea...32pfl7404.html

In/near Eton or Plymouth:
http://www.richersounds.com/showclea...+Le32c550.html

Bearing in mind Toshiba and Philips aren't AMAZINGLY good brands, the quality of the panels are likely to be considerably higher than supermarket brands like Technika. Samsung do make pretty decent panels.

I haven't looked greatly into the above models, although they are all 32" and "Full HD" (capable of outputting 720p/1080i/1080p)

[peteyt]

I found a Tecknika 32 full HD one at work decent price the only thing is the ratio is bad and no headphone socket. What is a good ratio?