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Old 13-06-2004, 10:49
Zaichik
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I've decided that a buzzing fault with my old TV gives me the good reason I've been looking for to buy a new widescreen TV, and the missus has agreed because she hates the buzzing too!

I've decided to get a 28" 50Hz TV. I reckon my living room is too small for a 32" and, from reading some threads on here, it seems that 100Hz is not worth bothering with on a 28" set. I also want an integrated digital tuner.

I think I've narrowed it down to a choice of 2 - the Sony KD28DL10U and the Panasonic TX28DT4C - but I'm struggling to make the final decision.

The Sony had a stellar review in What Video and Widescreen TV but some people seem to have had problems with banding on the picture, and it also doesn't appear to support NTSC playback. This presumably means that region 1 DVDs are out? Oh and the review said that analogue picture quality wasn't so hot (I'll need to use the analogue tuner until I move house in a few months time - Freeview is hard to receive here).

The Panny does support NTSC, but the review I saw of the 32" version wasn't terribly enthusiastic about the picture quality.

I'd be grateful for any advice - I'm a total newbie to widescreen TVs.
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Old 13-06-2004, 20:24
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I would advise against an iDTV (Integrated Digital TV) because the technology of Freeview boxes moves so fast in a year or two you may be left with a TV that can't cope with a new feature in interactive, 7 day EPG etc. If the manufacturer (it isn't uncommon) leaves bugs in a software version of a product that it suddenly decides not to support, then you may get fed up with a crashing tv.

So if your TV lasted 5 years but the Freeview side didn't meat a specific requirement or was full of bugs then it would be easy to buy a new £50 box.

Hope this helps

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