Thread: Big TV's

Slightly off topic maybe but I've just made my first foray into the world of non-CRT viewing. I bought a Kogan 50cm LCD HD Widescreen panel for my bedroom. It comes with a free wall mounting unit worth $79. Doesn't have HDMI but no need for that in the bedroom. Paid $375 + insured freight for it on Kogan Direct at eBay. 12 month on site warranty (extendable to 3 or 5 year). So far they have been great to deal with (answer emails within a couple of hours) though they won't be shipping until 27th June. I'll report on it when I hook it up.
Anyone have any experience with the brand (the owner was featured on the horrible Today/Tonight show a couple of weeks ago).
Usual disclaimer.
Cheers

the mitsubishis i've been hanging up lately have been XD490U.

bear in mind my work is mostly commercial... the 490u is a good solid machine with the features we look for like 2 vga inputs.....
and we are usualy looking for reasonably grunty machines.
In a home with subdued lighting even 1500 lumens looks bright.... hell we used to do ballrooms with 1500 lumens on a 12 x 9.

I do not try and keep up with all the various models.... If I did it would be a full time job just doing that.

I wouldnt call the 490u tiny...... but hell its smaller that an old sony 3 tube.

one thing I do like about the mitsubishi machines is that there spec does more closely resemble reality than most.
also their menue system remains consistent from machine to machine.... so you only have to learn one menu system.

as for speakers
Bose have never been and will never be an audiophile speaker...... they are designed to look good and sound pleasant to the average joe (not necessarily this joe).
generlay most people wont notice the limitations of bose till they hear something else next to it.

there are heaps of speaker systems out there

and some very good value for money.

check out the Proson AB product... they sound very good for the money you pay and they look very funky.

cheers

My SIL put a Bose Lifestyle System in his new place during construction (all the cabling is hidden). I thought WOW when I saw it but then I played an Eric Clapton DVD through it. Very ordinary I must say. Then I played some Beethoven through it. Still ordinary. My Yamaha stereo amp with 8 ohm Jamo speakers and fat O2-free cables in the shed pumps out a better sound IMHO.

yeh well
I wouldn't consider a little lifestye system gods gift to home theatre. they are designed to be a little inconspicuous system that gives a bit of a "surround experience".
Bose have a variety of heavier systems than that, so being fair to bose, not the fault of the lifestyle system.

this brings up an important point.
In this day and age.... pre cabling the house is more important than selecting the equipment.
Which goes against the way people want to buy and sales types want to sell.
(for most people) There is nothing imotive about wires. but this is where the money needs to be spent and the carefull thaught is needed.

Now the HIFI jokers will try to sell you all sorts of very high priced cables.
Having good basic, adequate cable is what is "needed".

I did the areial component of an installation years ago where the shop had sold the customer "Midnight Cable" at $70 a meter for a rumpas room instalation ... just rediculous.

Same company used to direct import its own brand of speaker cable from tiwan... and sell it at $7.50 per meter I was selling a cable I baught form one of thr wholesalers that was twice as heavy at $4.50 a metre and making good margin.
This was 15 years ago.

Now this "oxygen fee" thing. A friend of mine direct imports cable for the AV industry.... he was getting government specs that called for oxygen fee cable.
None of his cable was claimed as being or marked as being "oxygen free" so he spoke to his supplier
(You have to hear this in an asian voice to get the full effect)
His supplier said " oxygen free... of course its oxygen free... what sort of rubbish do you think we make here"
So he made sure the next batch had oxygen free written large on the jacket.

this oxygen fee thing became an issue way back in the early eighties when a lot of cheap patch cables were made from recycled copper, or low grade poorly refined copper.

I doubt if "oxygen free" is real an issue these days.

I notice that nobody much is marking their cables with arrows to show which way the electricity should flow these days.

Any good heavy piece of wire should do fine for speaker cable realy.

cheers

Originally Posted by soundman

Now the HIFI jokers will try to sell you all sorts of very high priced cables.
Having good basic, adequate cable is what is "needed".

Yep, par for the course.

Originally Posted by soundman

I did the areial component of an installation years ago where the shop had sold the customer "Midnight Cable" at $70 a meter for a rumpas room instalation ... just rediculous.

LOL

Originally Posted by soundman

Any good heavy piece of wire should do fine for speaker cable realy.

cheers

Hang on just gotta straighten out some coat hangers.

Go to the following forum
it is the best in OZ to find out
about LCD's. Plasmas, Digital boxes etc

http://www.dtvforum.info/

Originally Posted by Shedhand

Yep, par for the course.LOL
Hang on just gotta straighten out some coat hangers.

HMMM..... not quite what I had in mind.


I know of a bloke that had a historical cinema installation, with a bug pair of western electric speakers.......to keep with the historical value, he kept the #8 fencing wire that wired up the crossovers in place


cheers

Sorry dayvo, I'm a little late and you have obviously bought one, but for the rest of yous, If your not in an all fired up hurry just wait a bit longer, Although I've dropped out of the industry now I had the missfortune of servicing the current array of big screens and am very aware of their short comings, however there is a new concept developed here in aussie set to revolutionize the system, one word " Laser TV "
Here's a link, or just google....
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20556847-2,00.html

Originally Posted by lnt9000

Sorry dayvo, I'm a little late and you have obviously bought one, but for the rest of yous, If your not in an all fired up hurry just wait a bit longer, Although I've dropped out of the industry now I had the missfortune of servicing the current array of big screens and am very aware of their short comings, however there is a new concept developed here in aussie set to revolutionize the system, one word " Laser TV "
Here's a link, or just google....
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20556847-2,00.html

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