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In Reply to: ah, and now the bias is revealed... posted by petew on December 27, 2001 at 11:55:01:
Hi Pete,
you are swaying me towards the insanely expensive! Stop in the name of financial probity! My wife would kill me.
Follow Ups:
resisted as long as I could...the satellite is configured to format in 16:9 when available, and it seems that is happening more often...even on some of the new commercials.
the old 27" Proscam works fine, albeit noisy, but the presentation of widescreen (The West Wing) and letterbox films gives me a picture smaller than the vintage '70s 19" Sony Trinaton (no remote, pushbutton tuner, the set that will not die).
Applesauce Now Redux in super widescreen really was like watching a movie thru a letterbox...an actual size letterbox.
we were going to remove all the carpeting upstairs and have nice cherry floors installed (dust: read "My House is Killing Me" by Jeffery C. May), but I've spent too much time in the local Tweeters staring at the Sony plasma endlessly looping some Dutch flowers, and the 50" Pioneer endlessly looping...hell, I can't even remember what it was...the thing is like looking thru a window--no wires, no mass--it just hangs there like the view screen on Star Trek...
THAT'S IT!! it's Star Trek...that's why I can't take my eyes off of it!...I've been pre-programed to see the universe the way Captain Kirk does!!!
the horror...
the horror...
Oh man, Petew, I see from your posts that we have the same disease.
Brutal isn't it? The shaking, the sweating, the dilated, fixated pupils. Luckily, I think all we need for a full recovery is an injection of Plasma :-)Rich H.
...the dilithium krrristlez woana tek much merrr..."back and forth between the 50" true HDTV and the 42" wanna-be...
i actually drew them both on the wall yesterday...not kidding
(people think i make this stuff up--truth is, nobody would believe the truth--even i find my life incredible--i have to tone it down for my public)
she'd never go for the 50"...I've seen her angry...I've seen her back the CEO of a fortune 50 company into a corner with wrath that makes Charton Heston's Moses seem like Mr. Rogers...
so, I ordered the 42...
I'm doomed, doomed...now I know how Osama feels.
just takin' it one day at a time...
what I need now is a cloaking device
"back and forth between the 50" true HDTV and the 42" wanna-be...i actually drew them both on the wall yesterday...not kidding"
No kidding assumed. Remember, you're surrounded by fellow obsessives.
When I stare at my tv I don't even see it anymore. Instead my mind superimposes a sleek, gleaming plasma screen in it's place. Took quite a while to get my wife on board - she'd be perfectly happy with a 12" tv screen, stashed in a corner, partially hidden by a potted plant. But she recognizes the look in my eye, notices my feet aren't touching the ground whenever I view a plasma screen, and she's accepted the inevitable...at some point her tv world is going to change. Besides, I've shown her the measurements; absolutely none of the newer, bigger CRTs will fit in our nice bookcase, which currently houses our 27" TV.
"Honey, this tv is going to die, and the ONLY thing that will fit in it's place will be a plasma." She's defenseless I tell you, defenseless against my onslaught!Regarding your purchase: tough choice between the 50" and 42." I think you did good. The 42" has even better contrast than the 50."
Also, I saw the 50" yet again and noticed it suffered from phosphor latency in a way that I'd never seen from the 42." I've read that latency is one of the engineering compromises that happens when the size of a plasma increases.The 50" would be a little large for our room, not to mention that I couldn't in my wildest dreams afford it in Canadian dollars (here it actually works out to over double it's American price). Now I just have to figure out what kind of night job I can take on to buy the 42" set:-)
Please feel free to alert us once you've got your Panny up and runnin.'
Rich H.
Hello Rich,
I am but a poor slob in posession of a lowly flat 27" panasonic with the added bonus of a pincushioning display. We are surrrounded here in horse country by all manner of large screens in neighboring homes.
My wife sounds a bit like your wife, if she enjoys using a 12 inch black and white tv...a 75 pound black rotary phone..a butter churn...and the occasional thumbscrew for the misbehaving husband. The thought of a HD compatable large screen tv purchase is for her is like asking her if she would mind having the cast of Mad Max [minus Mel Gibson] stay with us for a few months so she could wait on them and clean up afterwards. Yes I have a question but this post is long enough already........Merry Christmas Jon
Argghh
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