OT: Buying a telly.

[Vortex11]

iPlayer; ITV Player; 4OD; Demand 5

[Andrew Gabriel]

Check the guarantee too. John Lewis and Costco prices included 5 year guarantees when I was looking around (and were still cheaper), but that was a considerable extra expense at most other stores.

Costco was cheaper than John Lewis, so it may be that their price match doesn't include Costco.

I couldn't believe they're going to keep the long outdated "Carphone" in the new name "Dixons Carphone". Someone suggested "Curry Warehouse" might be a better choice;-)

[Andrew Gabriel]

I have a vague recollection that stores don't need a TV license for the purpose of demonstrating TVs (but they do have to register each sale with the TVLO).

[Tim Watts]

However I would stay away from integrated "smartness" - especially Samsung!

They had a major failure not long ago where all their smart TVs stopped working because of some sort of server failure back at base.

I'd get the best "big monitor with TV tuner" you can budget for, minus a bit and spend the bit on a separate set-top smart box (Roku, AppleTV, whatever). Also IME the TV will probably outlive the settop box obselecence wise.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Mine didn't.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

That would make sense.

[Jabba]

Adrian scribbled...

Parhaps that's the idea behind 4k transmissions. Viewers will be so transfixed by the backgrounds and the quality of the clothing being worn by the actors, they story will completely pass them bye.

Watercooler discussions about soaps will concentrate on scenery observations...

"I saw a cabbage white on Emmerdale" "There are 22 drops of bird shit on the roof of No 3 Coronation Street" "Eastenders is being shot out of order, there's a spot on XX's nose that keeps coming and going"

In the meantime, wildlife filming quality will remain the same, as they won't be able to stick a huge camera up an elephant's arse.

[Jabba]

dennis@home scribbled...

That will be the price.

[polygonum]

Sounded to me like an ego on the CPW side. What an utterly crap name.

Actually, perhaps it is highly appropriate... ? :-)

I agree that CW would have been a much better name - and with the advantage of some slight amusement.

[Theo Markettos]

Interesting. It seems there are some bargain 4K TVs out there, which make nice ultra-high-res monitors (if you have decent graphics hardware to drive them):

$500 from Sears works out at GBP424 delivered (including import VAT).

Oh, and you can also watch TV on them.

Theo

[spuorgelgoog]

Well, they can, but I'm not volunteering to hold the elephant.

Owain

[tony sayer]

Well the Sony we have has got those and its now three odd years old. So aren't they there on the more modern ones?. Seems very retrograde. The one we have has an Ethernet socket you can use Youtube etc and more!...

[tony sayer]

Why do they start which such high rates Dave?..

Is this in case they might want to use it for large screen cinema production?..

[tony sayer]

Wish I could say that as we looked there for the current TV we have and the pix weren't anything that good. Two of their sales staff started on with the "thats bad cos we've got so many tellies running of the one aerial " diatribe so we waked .. right to John Lewis where the pix were very much better overall apart from the sales staff being much better trained..

[Graham Nye]

Or the camera.

[The Natural Philosopher]

how much does the 110:240v transformer cost?

[Theo Markettos]

Power supply is 100-240v, so no need.

Theo

[critcher]

seems to me that buying into a non established standard which will be manufactured differently by each producer is asking for trouble. When a standard is ratified so that all can make their TV's using those standards, then it may well be sensible to invest in a 4K tv. Otherwise 12 months down the line these TV's may be no good for 4K transmissions.

[Dave Liquorice]

Nature of the raw signal SD 2 mega pixels @ 24 bits/pixel updated 25 times a second = 1.2 Gbps or there abouts.

AFAIK 4k and 8k are the formats used for CGI stuff and digital presentation. I don't know the bitrate that broadcast HD digital recorders run at but its compressed from the raw speed.

[Dave Liquorice]

True but they would need one for the TV in the managers office or the workers tea room ...