― PJ Miller, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Billy Dods, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Monday, 10 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
(My hint for three DVD's everyone must own if the have to own a DVD playa).
― Pete, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― RickyT, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
- 'Cockfighter' ('cos it's got Warren Oates, it's banned in the UK, it's directed by the GRATE Monte Hellman, and it sounds like cockfarmer.)
- 'Suspiria' (made for a big telly)
- 'The Conformitst' (prob. the most beautiful film ever made)
- Any of those fabbo Mario Bava discs that have been issued in the last couple of years - 'Blood and Black Lace', maybe, or 'Bay of Blood'
- 'Mouchette' ('cos Bresson is the greatest)
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sarah, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Nicole, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I larfed nonstop and so did Dr. Ben.
It doubles as a 5 CD player and can play MP3s as well. You could load it up with mp3 mix discs and have enough music for an all-weekend party without ever having to switch CDs.
― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― katie, Tuesday, 11 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'd buy "The Mummy Returns", though. Is that wrong?
haha i like that in 2002 DJP was buying a bigger TV than i have in 2011.
anyway i'm wondering if this animal exists: a TV with absolutely no features other than a tuner, and looking great. i don't want a "Smart" TV, i don't want 3D, i don't want DLNA support, i don't want USB ports. i've already got a popcorn hour and a PS3 and between them they take care of pretty much everything. possible?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 11:37 (twelve years ago) link
Are you good at electronics? You could ]build one yourself
― StanM, Friday, 18 November 2011 12:55 (twelve years ago) link
In the UK? You could just go along to a "recycling centre" and 'literally' pick one up for nothing - it would weigh a lot however. Curry's had an 'Essentials' range of appliances fairly recently - I remember seeing toasters and other small appliances, I think it included TVs.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 18 November 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
I don't want a shitty TV, I want a TV that tunes in broadcasts and displays them exceptionally well!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:06 (twelve years ago) link
Oh OK, well, no then...probably.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 18 November 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
(I did wonder what you meant by looking great...)
However thanks for the link to these guys - http://www.nbtv.org/
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
(to StanM)
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
xp Actually the last TV I took down to the recycling centre did have a great picture (and better sound than my new one - do they deliberately soound crappy so you have to buy a home cinema?) but of course it was analogue.
― Ned Trifle X, Friday, 18 November 2011 13:09 (twelve years ago) link
The rubbish sound is more because the race to make flatscreen TVs as slim as possible leaves barely any depth in the casing for speakers, certainly not for a decently sized bass speaker. It's frustrating to have to shell out for a separate audio system/soundbar, but if you use the TV a lot then you'll feel the benefit.
Tracer: if you look at commercial grade LCD and plasma screens then these rarely have any of the extra gubbins you refer to, and they are often very well made with high-quality displays (part of my job involves buying this kind of kit). The flipside is that you'll not get speakers or a tuner as standard. To be honest, any decent consumer grade TV will have USB and dnla etc, so you're not really paying over the odds for its inclusion.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
hmph yeah my idea is to save money by getting a set that doesn't include this stuff. And going up to "commercial grade" sounds a bit pricey as well.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:32 (twelve years ago) link
The bits you're mentioning are the cheapest bits on a TV. Removing them wouldn't reduce the cost by much, maybe £20-30. And for the manufacturer, it would make such a TV harder to sell.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (snoball), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
Just to give you a flavor, for a long time this was my ideal TV:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sony-Trinitron-Broadcast-Monitor-/130587978293
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Tracer after an eb4y binge...http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l5l4ce6SgZ1qzy6hgo1_500.jpg
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (snoball), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
>hmph yeah my idea is to save money by getting a set that doesn't include this stuff.
In fairness, a good TV these days is about as cheap as they'll ever get - cf. I bought a 28" CRT Sony widescreen in 2000 for £800. When this broke in 2008 I replaced it with a 37" Panasonic plasma which cost £750. You can get a 42" Panasonic plasma now for just over £400. You could dig deeper and buy a no-brand LCD for £250, but the PQ will be garbage. And as snoball says, the stuff you don't want contributes very little to the price.
― that mustardless plate (Bill A), Friday, 18 November 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
OK thanks, this is all v helpful
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 18 November 2011 14:53 (twelve years ago) link
Soooo didn't do this
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
My new lust object is:
- Networked media streamer- HD Freeview PVR- Blu-Ray
all in one box. Apparently this does not exist.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Basically my DVD player crapped out and it has made me reassess my entire life, and the nature of things
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 May 2012 01:10 (eleven years ago) link
TS: Roku vs. Apple TV vs. streaming from your laptop
― Lee971 (Lee626), Monday, 21 May 2012 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
I don't want to have to wake up my computer just to watch something on TV
Basically I want WD TV Live, with a disc slot and a TV tuner inside
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
I'd settle for a decent PVR that does netflix, youtube & IPTV. why does youview not offer this
why is there no one piece of kit that does it all plus TV tunerhttp://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1127187/vrg_settopbox_3.png
― слабоумие и отвага (cozen), Monday, 25 February 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
sooooo..
my tv has started to die
:D
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 09:09 (nine years ago) link
it is 26", which apparently these days is fit only for children and elves
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 August 2014 09:22 (nine years ago) link
i finally did it. after about 8 years of waiting for an OLED that would fit in my living room LG went and fucking made one and i have fucking ordered it.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 09:28 (one year ago) link
Ooh which one? I'm planning to get one of those -- the LG OLED C2 42"
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 10:25 (one year ago) link
that's it
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 11:09 (one year ago) link
it will replace a 26" Toshiba Regza that i bought in 2006 which tbf still works like a champ, dodgy remote aside
it will JUST about squeeze into the only spot in the living room big enough for it and i'm stoked for the madness
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
i was motivated by my experience this summer of being able to cast things from my phone to the TV in the airbnb we stayed in. it was like magic. Now that the PS4 MLB app appears to be completely fucked i was having to unplug the HDMI cable from the PS4 and plug it into my laptop to watch the game. humiliating for a man of my age i think you'll agree. the other thing is that over the years on-screen graphics have drifted smaller and smaller, in games and for sports, to the point that it's pretty hard to read some of it on a 26". but i mean yeah... the main thing is, let's not beat around the bush... New TV
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 11:14 (one year ago) link
we have a pretty terrific 32" flatscreen from 2010 that still looks great and does a bang-up job on breath of the wild
we're getting a new TV because, why not, and because our toddler seems like she's finally over the "randomly pulling heavy objects off the wall" stage of toddlerhood
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 11:40 (one year ago) link
that's kinda pricey still, but i always forget they last about 10 years and i'm sat in front of one 10 hours a day.
no scart or component in though, is that how tvs are these days? is my ps2 obsolete (not to mention the n64) because i can't plug it into anything
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
It is kind of ridiculous. twice the price of an LCD twice its size.. but I have been waiting patiently for an OLED for years. I hope it will last at least 10 years. my living room certainly won't be getting any bigger lol. It does not have component or scart sadly.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 13:20 (one year ago) link
(the article i found listed the 48" price fwiw, which didn't help)
― koogs, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:04 (one year ago) link
they are not dissimilar. in fact i think in the US they're literally the same price. i found a john lewis discount (now expired i believe) which put it at less than a grand.
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 3 August 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
it's here :O
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 10 August 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
Today I was able to get the LG remote to control my Yamaha receiver's volume. This receiver is 25 years old. I find this incredible. So now I've got one remote for everything. TV audio piped into the receiver via optical, and out to three Elac speakers. The only thing slightly weird about it is that if I listen to Spotify or Sounds via the TV the sound comes out pretty loud out of the centre speaker, but, well, listening to music on a TV is pretty weird anyway.
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
i am doing it now, because timed recordings on the pvr of late night radio is easier than anything else. utter waste of energy though.
(radio 6 is louder than normal tv, radio 3 is the same as tv. optimod...)
― koogs, Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:52 (one year ago) link
More aggressive compression on 6M I think, which the vocal R3 audiophiles wouldn’t stand for.koogs why not eat the dog food and just use Sounds to catch up on like… Benji B or whatever?
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 August 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
is the dog food vegetarian?
i'm on 3g, so have always had more pvr space than bandwidth. (he says with 140 unheard episodes of front row taking up space)
― koogs, Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
And no broadband? koogs! I never knew the digital divide extended quite so far!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 11 August 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
I've been in a vacation rental without internet for a week and omg, cheap TVs are terrible to watch and so is actual TV when you don't have any streaming/iPlayer etc. I tried to switch of all the motion fiddling settings and it still looked horrible.Hopefully we won't need a new TV for a while - drove quite a way to get the last decent plasma one we could find, probably around 8 years ago tho.
― kinder, Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:39 (one year ago) link
New nice TVs at a reasonable price are among the best buys for the buck. It's the age of miracles.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 13 August 2022 16:45 (one year ago) link
Literally a couple of months into the pandemic my flatscreen fritzed and I ordered a new one thinking it would be a replacement, but it ended up being even bigger, which, thanks. (55" Vizio) Combined that with a new Sony 4K/Bluray player with modifications to play all BD regions and will never look back.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 August 2022 17:26 (one year ago) link
How’s the sound from the tv speaker? (I don’t use external speakers as I have haring damage and I always find them too abrasive.)
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 13 August 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
From mine? Quite good I think!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 13 August 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
My setup is upthread. TV speaker is permanently off. I have optical out to a 3.0 system and it sounds great. The centre speaker changes a lot. Before I just had R and L and everything went through those. Now with a centre speaker the R and L become more kind of ambient atmospheric sources (i’m guessing what would be coming out of rear speakers is getting mixed into them since I have no rear speakers? Or possibly I’m just losing that rear speaker information. I’ve never been clear on that)
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 13 August 2022 18:38 (one year ago) link