need a new tv is the sony 46w4000 a bit of overkill for me.

[stolt]

Hi everyone, need some advice on what tv to buy, seem so many out there and the different contrast ratios are mixing me all up.

i like the sony 46W4000 and nearly ordered it and have just cancelled it as i was worried about a review i read that said standard defination looks bad on this tv. 80% of our tv watching will be on standard def (kids etc) but i want to ge a blue ray player and me and the missus can watch some blue ray films. do you think this is overkill? Does anyone ave this tv and confirm that standard sky def sky is ok on it?

thanks

[Alan b]

Moving to Hardware Forum

[splobber]

If you want a good SD picture then look at a plasma.

How does watching Blu-Ray's on a hi-def TV seem like overkill anyway? You could always have my Nan's Binatone 14" black and white set with her Ferguson Videostar VCR if you want to be more downmarket.

[stolt]

If you want a good SD picture then look at a plasma.

How does watching Blu-Ray's on a hi-def TV seem like overkill anyway? You could always have my Nan's Binatone 14" black and white set with her Ferguson Videostar VCR if you want to be more downmarket.

What i meant was for the amount of time that i will be watching blu-ray films compared to standard defination tv is minimal and I keep reading that some of these fancy 1080 sets are superb at blu-ray films but not so good and showing SD. I have a panny PWD6 plasma from a few years back and thats good on standard freeview/sky etc.

Plasma is the way to go then hey?

oh and buy your poor nan a new tv. Come on you know you should.

[chris21]

A lot of the reasons that LCD gets such a bad rap about SD though is that reviewers often use freeview as the yardstick. And, as we all know the quality of freeview can be ropey even before it's upscaled.

DVDs look excellent on my LCD, with my player deinterlacing and my TV upscaling.

[Tempest]

If you want a good SD picture then look at a plasma.

How does watching Blu-Ray's on a hi-def TV seem like overkill anyway? You could always have my Nan's Binatone 14" black and white set with her Ferguson Videostar VCR if you want to be more downmarket.

Yeah, Plasma's are great as if you hang one up on the wall and freeze frame your picture for a hour, then you can turn your set top box off and enjoy the image burned into the plasma for the next few days.

Think of it as a giant photo frame!

(Hides behind sofa)

;)

[jroadley]

Yeah, Plasma's are great as if you hang one up on the wall and freeze frame your picture for a hour, then you can turn your set top box off and enjoy the image burned into the plasma for the next few days.

Think of it as a giant photo frame!

(Hides behind sofa)

;)

But the picture is still better :dork:

(I own both types!)

[chris21]

Plasma's do seem to have a more natural picture.

But I've gone with motion blur over Phosphor lag.

(gets behind sofa with Tempest)

[stolt]

so the sony should be ok, as i say i may well get sky hd in due course, were going to be sitting about 12ft from it at the closest angle, just worried the standard sky will look bad.

[chris21]

I wouldn't have thought it will look too bad. It may show up the macroblocking more you get on poor feeds on a TV that big. The good will look amazing, (you will obviously be using HDMI?) and the bad parts of the picture may stand out a little more.

[stolt]

thanks for all the replies, just read a ton of reviews on the tv last night and i think i'm going for it. Good price at the moment £949.00 just got a to get a wall bracket now.

[CrumpetMan]

I wouldn't have thought it will look too bad. It may show up the macroblocking more you get on poor feeds on a TV that big. The good will look amazing, (you will obviously be using HDMI?) and the bad parts of the picture may stand out a little more.

Isn't HDMI only available with the sky HD box? I know that's how it is with virgin, no option to connect via HDMI with the standard box (unless you've got some sort of scart to HDMI converter but that would be pointless)

[jot027]

thanks for all the replies, just read a ton of reviews on the tv last night and i think i'm going for it. Good price at the moment £949.00 just got a to get a wall bracket now.

try searching for one of the newer W series models. Have a friend who paid less for the 40 w5500 (might be 5000, but pretty sure its the 5500)

He is over the moon with it even on SD

[stolt]

Thanks, jsut to add insult, mate at work popped in lunchtime to tell me hes just bought a LG 47inch for £631.00!!! model. LG 47LH3000. Gutted as thats a great price.

[stolt]

thansk for all the advice was at great ormand street yesterday with my daughter and popped into selfridges and they had a sony 46w4000 in there ex display but they would match the current sony 3 yr guarantee for it, £625.00 and will be with me tomorrow. nice tv cant wait to fire it up.

[chris21]

Isn't HDMI only available with the sky HD box? I know that's how it is with virgin, no option to connect via HDMI with the standard box (unless you've got some sort of scart to HDMI converter but that would be pointless)

Yes your right.

I just read it as SKY HD.:doh: And presumed the SD questions were related to the SD channels.

[chris21]

Thanks, jsut to add insult, mate at work popped in lunchtime to tell me hes just bought a LG 47inch for £631.00!!! model. LG 47LH3000. Gutted as thats a great price.

I'll be very suprised if his LG is better than your Sony.