Hi Guys,
The one missing link in my setup got filled up today. The big screen TV.
Deccision Time:
I have been watching some brands of LCDs and Plasmas in show rooms for some time. But every time i came out i wanted go with a Panasonic. Don't ask me why.(Thank God ours is not like another popular AV forum where a science crowd hangs out and thrash guys for making a simple statement like this new CDP X of mine is better sounding than my older Y CDP, asking them to prove it "scientifically")May be i am biased towards Panny. May be the excellent 29 CRT i have been enjoying for the past 4-5 years has made me very reluctant to give up this brand. So i knew in my guts i will go with a Panny finally and thats what happened.
But the one vexing question was deciding between a Full HD and a HD Ready.But the Tatasky pictures i have been watching on Full HD TVs always horrified me. Cause its DTH we will be watching for 70% of the time. I knew my betterhalf will surely become a bitterhalf if she has to watch these kind of DTH pictures, since she watches the TV whole of day time. I also did not want to watch the DTH movies and sports channles with that kind of quality.Then i talked with our dear mod Ram for a couple of times.The amiable young man was kind enough to give me his time and guide me. The first thing he asked me was my viewing distance.When i told him it is 8 feet now, and likely to increase to 12 feet in 3 months time, pat came the repy... HD Ready it is. Ram said at 8 feet a 42 inch FHD is not going to make any diffrence.So i decided to save myself a cool 27-28k and go for a HD Ready.Cause if it was FHD i would have certainly gone with the G10 and the best price i was quoted was 67-68k after exchange.Couple of more minutes with Ram i decided to choose PV8 over C10.For the simple reason the PV8 is a tried and trusted warhorse.Some of you guys may not think much of my decision of going with a 2008 model.But there it is.As the famous saying goes... YMMV..
Disclaimer:I am not asking you guys not to go for the FHD. But always watch out for your viewig distance wrt to the screen size you are buying.
So the TV was delivered at 8.30 pm yesterday. Me and my son set the TV up and decided to watch some DVD pics first.
The Big screen experince is something you have to feel in your own home.You can never perceive it in a showroom.Going from a 29 CRT to PV8 was like changing your car from a Santro to Honda City.
All of us were wowed for sure.
DVD Perfromance
Fed the Terminator Salvation DVD into my Oppo and upsclaed it to 720p. The DVD certainly looked better than on my CRT. Being a scifi movie it had a lot of dark scenes.The black level was very good.Then we fed the movie 'Paycheck' and the pictures were really nice.The quality of colour combo and details on the big screen was very evident.Then ripped DVD movies were tried.Whereas they looked excellent on my CRT the PV8 exposed them.Being 7GB files compressed in to 4.7GB DVDs the pics looked pixallated. But the TV proved its full potential when the BBC's Earth docu was played.This is a 1080p content burnt on a DVD. When the picture came on the TV, upsacaled to 1080i, there was a collective gasp from all of us.We were taken aback by the pictrues we were seeing.I know this word is a cliche on the forum guys.But the word 'awesome'came to my mind for the first time since we powered on the TV.I am eagerly looking forward to get a Media Player and feed some 1080p and 720p content to the TV.When i saw this DVD i was convinced my decision was right not going for the FHD.
Tatasky Perfomance:
Well guys, the DTH pics are certainly a notch down from my CRT.That is only to be expected i know.But not as bad as the pics i were seeing on FHDs.Channels like HBO,Starmovies and MGM are looking pretty decent.The letters on the tickers runing on the news channels are absolutely clear. The tamil channels looked ok.Now on to the sporting action. The TV's refresh rate was set to 100Hz. Yesterday night we watched a ManU football match on Star / Espn channel.The TV handled the fast football action without any issues.The ball even during the flight was clearly visible and there was no blurr and judder movements.Then today we watched the cricket action on Neocricket. Due to the foggy conditions in the Feroz shah kotla The PQ was not clear enough.Then watched the first test between Australia & Pakistan in Melbourne on Star Cricket.The MCG looks fantastic on the big screen.Can't wait to watch the Indian Team take on these aussie thugs on these big australian grounds on the big screen.The only downside is i have to watch the DTH in zoom mode because of the image retention problems.The PQ drops due to this.The Tataky logo seems to be transperent on the PV8.Is there a risk with this logo? Guys please clarfy and also tell me if i have to watch like this for 1000 hours.
Price and Dealer.
Guys i was not prepared to part with my Panny 29 CRT on exchange. So i decided to give away my mother's 12 year old Toshiba 21' CRT and move the panny CRT to her.Now she can watch the always scheming,screaming and wailing Sun TV serial charecters on a bigger and better screen. So after the exchange of this 21 incher the price i paid was 40K for the TV with 3 years warranty.
The dealer i got the TV is Hamsaveni Electronics,TTK Road, Alwarpet.The contact person is Mr.Sudharshan.He is a former SBI employee and he owns the shop. With my all round enquiries for various TVs the best prices were always given by this dealer.If someone else are giving better prices in Chennai then i don't know them anyway. I paid the money yesterday afternoon by 3.30 and the TV was delivered by 8.30pm to my home yesterday night.I recommend this dealer.His phone number is 24982421.
Disclaimer: Guys i don't have any commercial interest with this dealer.
I have some questions to ask the present PV8 owners but i think i will put them on hold.This already has turned out to be a big post.Thanks for your patience guys.If this post can help someone to decide on their TV i will be prtty happy.
I want to record my special thanks to Ram(MBR) for helping me in a big way to decide on the TV.And to all the forum guys who are always there to help each other.This forum really rocks no doubt.:clapping:
Thanks and Cheers,
sri
The one missing link in my setup got filled up today. The big screen TV.
Deccision Time:
I have been watching some brands of LCDs and Plasmas in show rooms for some time. But every time i came out i wanted go with a Panasonic. Don't ask me why.(Thank God ours is not like another popular AV forum where a science crowd hangs out and thrash guys for making a simple statement like this new CDP X of mine is better sounding than my older Y CDP, asking them to prove it "scientifically")May be i am biased towards Panny. May be the excellent 29 CRT i have been enjoying for the past 4-5 years has made me very reluctant to give up this brand. So i knew in my guts i will go with a Panny finally and thats what happened.
But the one vexing question was deciding between a Full HD and a HD Ready.But the Tatasky pictures i have been watching on Full HD TVs always horrified me. Cause its DTH we will be watching for 70% of the time. I knew my betterhalf will surely become a bitterhalf if she has to watch these kind of DTH pictures, since she watches the TV whole of day time. I also did not want to watch the DTH movies and sports channles with that kind of quality.Then i talked with our dear mod Ram for a couple of times.The amiable young man was kind enough to give me his time and guide me. The first thing he asked me was my viewing distance.When i told him it is 8 feet now, and likely to increase to 12 feet in 3 months time, pat came the repy... HD Ready it is. Ram said at 8 feet a 42 inch FHD is not going to make any diffrence.So i decided to save myself a cool 27-28k and go for a HD Ready.Cause if it was FHD i would have certainly gone with the G10 and the best price i was quoted was 67-68k after exchange.Couple of more minutes with Ram i decided to choose PV8 over C10.For the simple reason the PV8 is a tried and trusted warhorse.Some of you guys may not think much of my decision of going with a 2008 model.But there it is.As the famous saying goes... YMMV..
Disclaimer:I am not asking you guys not to go for the FHD. But always watch out for your viewig distance wrt to the screen size you are buying.
So the TV was delivered at 8.30 pm yesterday. Me and my son set the TV up and decided to watch some DVD pics first.
The Big screen experince is something you have to feel in your own home.You can never perceive it in a showroom.Going from a 29 CRT to PV8 was like changing your car from a Santro to Honda City.
All of us were wowed for sure.DVD Perfromance
Fed the Terminator Salvation DVD into my Oppo and upsclaed it to 720p. The DVD certainly looked better than on my CRT. Being a scifi movie it had a lot of dark scenes.The black level was very good.Then we fed the movie 'Paycheck' and the pictures were really nice.The quality of colour combo and details on the big screen was very evident.Then ripped DVD movies were tried.Whereas they looked excellent on my CRT the PV8 exposed them.Being 7GB files compressed in to 4.7GB DVDs the pics looked pixallated. But the TV proved its full potential when the BBC's Earth docu was played.This is a 1080p content burnt on a DVD. When the picture came on the TV, upsacaled to 1080i, there was a collective gasp from all of us.We were taken aback by the pictrues we were seeing.I know this word is a cliche on the forum guys.But the word 'awesome'came to my mind for the first time since we powered on the TV.I am eagerly looking forward to get a Media Player and feed some 1080p and 720p content to the TV.When i saw this DVD i was convinced my decision was right not going for the FHD.
Tatasky Perfomance:
Well guys, the DTH pics are certainly a notch down from my CRT.That is only to be expected i know.But not as bad as the pics i were seeing on FHDs.Channels like HBO,Starmovies and MGM are looking pretty decent.The letters on the tickers runing on the news channels are absolutely clear. The tamil channels looked ok.Now on to the sporting action. The TV's refresh rate was set to 100Hz. Yesterday night we watched a ManU football match on Star / Espn channel.The TV handled the fast football action without any issues.The ball even during the flight was clearly visible and there was no blurr and judder movements.Then today we watched the cricket action on Neocricket. Due to the foggy conditions in the Feroz shah kotla The PQ was not clear enough.Then watched the first test between Australia & Pakistan in Melbourne on Star Cricket.The MCG looks fantastic on the big screen.Can't wait to watch the Indian Team take on these aussie thugs on these big australian grounds on the big screen.The only downside is i have to watch the DTH in zoom mode because of the image retention problems.The PQ drops due to this.The Tataky logo seems to be transperent on the PV8.Is there a risk with this logo? Guys please clarfy and also tell me if i have to watch like this for 1000 hours.
Price and Dealer.
Guys i was not prepared to part with my Panny 29 CRT on exchange. So i decided to give away my mother's 12 year old Toshiba 21' CRT and move the panny CRT to her.Now she can watch the always scheming,screaming and wailing Sun TV serial charecters on a bigger and better screen.
So after the exchange of this 21 incher the price i paid was 40K for the TV with 3 years warranty.The dealer i got the TV is Hamsaveni Electronics,TTK Road, Alwarpet.The contact person is Mr.Sudharshan.He is a former SBI employee and he owns the shop. With my all round enquiries for various TVs the best prices were always given by this dealer.If someone else are giving better prices in Chennai then i don't know them anyway. I paid the money yesterday afternoon by 3.30 and the TV was delivered by 8.30pm to my home yesterday night.I recommend this dealer.His phone number is 24982421.
Disclaimer: Guys i don't have any commercial interest with this dealer.
I have some questions to ask the present PV8 owners but i think i will put them on hold.This already has turned out to be a big post.Thanks for your patience guys.If this post can help someone to decide on their TV i will be prtty happy.
I want to record my special thanks to Ram(MBR) for helping me in a big way to decide on the TV.And to all the forum guys who are always there to help each other.This forum really rocks no doubt.:clapping:
Thanks and Cheers,
sri
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hyeah:
But i am digressing here....
