I'm looking for a new telly, and I have been waching few models. Like:
-Samsung LE-32R86 (there are S, R, M models and S being the worst and M the best. But R would be good for my wallet)
- Sony KDL-32U2000 (and there are also 3 different models and again I'm looking for the middle one)
So what are your opinions about those? I have looked and looked over again, but everytime I try to find more info about the best product for my money I get more mixed. I have no idea what to buy. There should be reasonable amount of sockets and the most importat is the screen quality. I'm going now for the Samsung, but I would like to hear comments about people who know these things :) I'm looking for a about 1000-1200 â,¬ machine so if you know better than those just tell me.
Thanks!
-Lex
Quote from: Lexander;212157-Samsung LE-32R86 (there are S, R, M models and S being the worst and M the best. But R would be good for my wallet)
I got this one (R) a couple of weeks ago and I'm very pleased with it.
Good value for money. (atleast in Norway)
I've got an LG one myself in my uni house and love it. Also have a Toshiba 36" back home. The key to shopping for a panel is to go to the shops and check them out with what you'll be watching. EG: Laptop to play videos through it, your favourite DVD or watch the TV tuner.
If you'll be watching through a computer check that when connected to a computer it supports the full 1360x768 (or whatever) Scaling RUINS picture quality, so viewing 1024 on you tv is a waste of money.
Watching DVD's won't look as good as the snazy HD sample they put on a loop, so watch one to see if it's as good as you'd hoped.
TV if you're planning on veiwing it is going to be lower quality again. This is the reason why you should go for a decent brand, they have all the most modern noise reduction chips in which makes them look nicer.
Don't go on specs alone. As with the music goods market manufactures deliberately mislead (RSM vs PMPO) by giving Grey-to-Grey refresh rates, and proprietry measures for contrast ratios. When I bought mine the best perfomances in the shop came from both an LG and JVC (I know I wasn't expective JVC to do anything of merit either) 50" (which were bloody expensive so out of my leauge) a Toshiba 36" (so good my parents got that one straight away) and in the 32" range Samsung and LG were both pretty close if anything Samsung were better but the connectivity didn't suit me I'm living in the past and needed the 3x Scart sockets, the array of composite inputs and the seperate DVI and HDMI.
Thats my last piece of advice, don't buy something if the connectivity is wrong for you. Not enough HDMI sockets etc will mean hours of annoying fiddling to switch over devices over the lifetime of the TV which is simply not worth it. Technology should be a pleasure, it's worth a bit extra cost to ensure this.