Replacing my TV and buying a 3DTV advice please
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My 42" is over three years old and it is starting to act strange. the picture is starting to have a blue haze on the picture and white sparkles in each corner. so its time to buy a new one an use this TV in the spare room.
I am interested in buying a 3DTV and because I only have a limited amount of cash I am thinking of buying the following TV
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.210-5088.aspx
Just two questions
1 The TV is only HD ready does will this difference when viewing 3D?
2 Has anyone else got one?
Thank in advance
Anth
My 42" is over three years old and it is starting to act strange. the picture is starting to have a blue haze on the picture and white sparkles in each corner. so its time to buy a new one an use this TV in the spare room.
I am interested in buying a 3DTV and because I only have a limited amount of cash I am thinking of buying the following TV
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.210-5088.aspx
Just two questions
1 The TV is only HD ready does will this difference when viewing 3D?
2 Has anyone else got one?
Thank in advance
Anth
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Test yourself out with one first. They cause headaches for about 30% of people.
I thought it had to be Full HD?
That TV has a 1280 x 720 resolution.
I know you said you were limited in what you can spend, but for an extra £100 you could have the 1080p version - the PS50C680. I got mine online from Pixmania. £799 with a £12 discount code = £787 including free delivery.
Thanks for the tip, I will look into buying that TV. I did not like the idea of a HD ready TV
Thanks for the advice:)
You will then also need something like SkyHD or 3D compatible blu-ray to make it work.
http://www.richersounds.com/product/3d-tv/samsung/ps50c490/sams-ps50c490
It's ONLY 3 years old, and it's faulty. Are you happy with that? I wouldn't be.
If I were to ever spend that amount of money on a tv (unlikely) I would expect it to give a lot more service for the money.
Your "solution" to getting poor value for money from your last purchase is put blind faith in a new technology with unproven reliability and hope it's better than the last gamble you took.
I would either get your old set repaired, or replace it with a cheap LCD of similar size.
Make & model of this demic set please.When you say over three years old, could it be 5/6/ years old?
JO
Its an LG 42PT85 the specs can be seen here
http://hdtvorg.co.uk/news/articles/2008012402.htm
when I found my receipt for this TV It is three years old in april,it cost me £749. I know it is only (nearly) three years old, it is on for nearly 15 hours a day :eek:.
I have a grown up family who work shifts go to collage ect, so there is always someone will have the TV on!
However The wife agrees that we need a new TV;), but my son thinks I should spend the money on a good full HDTV and forget about 3D at the moment
and forget about 3d just now
get Freeview HD
Thanks,as its a Lucky Gold I am not surprised, I would not touch them, Integrated PVRs means more can go wrong.
In my opinion, Go Sony or Panasonic, I went Panasonic due to its multi HD tuners (D28series) from JL
and yes get a five year warranty, this is excellent advice.
15 hours a day at say 200 watts:eek:,at least you dont need a room heater
JO
Not for the first time..... it's not 'Lucky Gold' it's Lucky Goldstar, previously just Goldstar.
As an aside, the OPs description of the fault is somewhat vague - it's equally possible that it's a poor signal source causing this kind of issue - without an engineer's visit, it is impossible to tell, so jumping to conclusions that the set is automatically faulty is unhelpful.
Buying a Sony or Panasonic doesn't guarantee you a trouble free set, it merely reduces the likelihood of problems.
The OP should probably get the set looked at first, either way.
The blue haze appears whichever imput source I use. I have tried different HDML leads with both the PS3 and the Sky HD STB I also have the blue haze which covers two thirds of the screen when watching DTV. One thing I did not mention is the screen goes back to normal after about 10 mins but then I have white sparkles in both corners at the top.
Well it sounds faulty - but I'm not an engineer.
Others (e.g John Currie, Nigel Goodwin) may be able to offer more insight on what is the problem here.
Impossible to say without seeing it, but the most likely cause would be the screen itself (most LCD/Plasma problems are).
As it's an LG Plasma, they are well known for having aging problems with the PDP - which causes this kind of fault. Last I heard they were fitting updated PCB's in the sets to correct the problem.
It would probably be worth contacting LG, as it's obviously a known manufacturing defect they have had to correct.
If you are talking about the sparklies problem, first change the carp capacitors on the Ysus board, and if that doesn't fix it, trimming the Va and Vb on the Ysus can cure it, by matching the voltages to the ageing panel. A bit trial and error usually.