New television apparatus!!!

[thop]

HDTV's aren't available here AT ALL. I doubt more than 5% even heard about it.

[ZokesPro]

A Konka 40" Plasma TV can go for 2400$ CND here.

[borat]

if you want crt then i would go panasoonic all the way, best piccture quality without a doubt in my mind, sony has the brand name and is good but they are way overpriced and phillips is the worst(of a great bunch) IQ wise. the sound on panasonics generally sucks though so if you went with that you should really buy a proper sound set up for it to boot.

[KvHagedorn]

Most of those cheap plasmas aren't even HD capable.

If the Panasonic Tau was a lot more than the Sony, I would be wary.. That should not be the case if both sets truly have the same features. (If the Tau was HD and the Sony just says Hi-Scan, there's the difference. )

[KvHagedorn]

By the way, be wary when ANYTHING is marketed with the word "digital" and you aren't quite sure what they mean by it. I could market Bronze Age style knives as "digital"... you hold them with your "digits," don't you? Or even this: This stone age tool is digital: it is either there or it isn't there..

[Novdid]

Thanks for the tips guys. As nobody commented on the Pixel plus thingy Philips touts it's down to either Panasonic or Sony. The two models I'm considering is as mentioned previously the Sony KV-32FX66 and the Panasonic TX-32PK25.

dZues has already filled me in on the Sony, anybody seen the Panasonic in action?

[Technoid]

Word of advice on the Panasonics 100HZ....

Check carefully if they have got rid of the damn ghosting problems

[Novdid]

I was at the store today, checking out the screens. And I decided to get the Sony. It was much better than the Panasonic all through. The Sony had an excellent imagequality a tad better than the Panasonic. It was sharper aswell as it had richer colours, and the design was much better. The decision was a rather easy one.

[dZeus]

good choice.

Now enjoy it

btw. I needed to change a setting in the service menu before s-video/composite auto detection would work on the EXT-2 and EXT-3 SCART sockets, in NTSC mode (before the settings change, it would swap between S-video and composite every second, i.e. between colour and b&w image). The settings was called something like 'NTSC auto-yc EXT2' and 'NTSC auto-yc EXT3' and was set to disable by default.

[ZokesPro]

Nice!

[Novdid]

dZues, I will look into that when the TV arrives, shouldn't be a problem though.

Thanks for the help guys, greatly appreiciated.