Won a big TV......Years ago now.

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Hi All,

Many moons ago, at least fifteen, I won a telly from a competition organised by a hi fi magazine.

It broke down last week, after a long life and trouble free viewing. I remember at the time of winning, I checked out the price of this TV, that by the way, was the size of a house, and it retailed for £800.

Imagine the shock involved, when I looked at the price of tv's now. Expecting them to be lower than £800, masses of them are higher, and significantly higher at that.

In fifteen years, you would expect the prices to have fallen, but to get a tv now that mirrors my old one, I would have to spend more money. This cannot be right. Someone somewhere is making a fool of us all. And I think we an guess who these people are.

In addition, the sound on my old broken tv was very good. Listen to the reviews on the latest tv's, and even a five star Sony award winner gets hammered for having "sounds flat" sound.

How can a tv get five stars when half of the pleasure of it (the sound) is not up to scratch.

And you cannot say it does not matter, because people use extra speakers these days, because most people do not.

I hope this post is not removed through fear, by the people who operate this site, because it is a valid point and it would be interesting to read others views.

Neil.

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[Anonymous]

lol , andrew . are you afraid ??

 

[Andrew Everard]

Hardly...

But then 15 years ago a VW Golf GTi cost about £6000 new, whereas today a new one will set you back around £23K.

 

[Anonymous]

You could have bought a castle for under £100,000 fifty years ago, now, you would probably have to pay several million.

According to the Bank of England, the £800 your old tv cost, when adjusted for inflation, would be approximately £2020 in today's money.

 

[bretty]

I take it your old tv was either a CRT or rear projection (I had a Toshiba 50" rear projection and that was ridiculously massive).

You have been shocked by the prices of the new technologies in tv, but you don't necessarily have to go down the Plasma/LCD route for your new TV. Because CRT televisons are now a defunct technology, you can pick them up for absolute peanuts and also means that you won't have to suffer with the inferior audio performance which is inherrent in Plasma/LCD.

Have a hunt around, you'll get a good deal.

Good luck.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks bretty,

A good suggestion as it goes.

As for the other suggestions......Likening a castle and top end German car engineering to a largely plastic piece of basic home entertainment, put together by folk that will not be overpaid for what they do, from countries that may not have European standards of worker care,.....Well gentlemen, really.................Cos they are the same.....Exactly the same.

Lastly, the statement that Plasma/LCD tv's are sound wise, inherrently inferior, from bretty, and similar statements from What HiFi Sound and Vision, in almost every review of tv's in this magazine, should make people more upset than it appears to.

How many folk I wonder, sit at home, sad at the purchase of a new tv, knowing that it just doesn't sound like it used to and that a backward step seems to have been taken.

A perfect picture is no good if the sound gets on your nerves.

 

[Anonymous]

it would be easy to put big bassy speakers in a flatscreen tv , but it wouldnt be flat , tvs follow trends , flatscreens are in vogue , its important to most buyers that they look good , and take up less space , a decent soundbar , or surround sound system can be added if high quality sound is important , whats wrong with that ??

 

[Anonymous]

What exactly is this old telly? I paid the thick end of £550 for a 25" panasonic (4:3) 15 years ago. Today that wedge should get me a 42" HD plasma. Or a '37 plus speakers/amp etc Seems allright. Or a 26" and quite a few nights out. Really can't see where you're coming from...? unless the fact the original one was free?

 

[Andrew Everard]

custos:As for the other suggestions......Likening a castle and top end German car engineering to a largely plastic piece of basic home entertainment, put together by folk that will not be overpaid for what they do, from countries that may not have European standards of worker care,.....Well gentlemen, really.................Cos they are the same.....Exactly the same.

A Golf GTi and a TV are both mass-produced consumer products. So yes, exactly the same.

And as for your other comments, they sort of beggar belief in terms of their old-fashioned assumptions.

 

[bigboss]

The older CRT & rear projection TVs were big, with a lot of airspace behind the speakers. That's why they sounded better. Today, when there's a competition to make the thinnest TV, sound will obviously get compromised. That's why home cinema speakers systems are selling much more today in the era of LCD & plasma TVs.

 

[laserman16]

Andrew Everard:

custos:As for the other suggestions......Likening a castle and top end German car engineering to a largely plastic piece of basic home entertainment, put together by folk that will not be overpaid for what they do, from countries that may not have European standards of worker care,.....Well gentlemen, really.................Cos they are the same.....Exactly the same.

A Golf GTi and a TV are both mass-produced consumer products. So yes, exactly the same.

And both will have a lot more technology in them than 15 years ago.........

 

[Anonymous]

laserman16:Andrew Everard:

custos:As for the other suggestions......Likening a castle and top end German car engineering to a largely plastic piece of basic home entertainment, put together by folk that will not be overpaid for what they do, from countries that may not have European standards of worker care,.....Well gentlemen, really.................Cos they are the same.....Exactly the same.

A Golf GTi and a TV are both mass-produced consumer products. So yes, exactly the same.

And both will have a lot more technology in them than 15 years ago.........

Yep and the lcd tv's of today need all that 'extra technology' just to get the picture anywhere close to that of a CRT with standard def material hahahaha!!!

 

[carter]

dont no what stores you looked in but ive been looking at new tvs over the last couple of weeks and i have seen 50inch hd ready plasmas for as little as £550 and the pictures were really nice maybe not 5 star but very good and at that kinda money you could get a budget stereo amp and a set of £100 speaker and you would get much better sound then your old tv and still come in at less than £800.

could you let us no what your tv was make,screen size,if it was wide screen or not,crt ext

 

[carter]

i just looked on the rs web site and thay have 42inch samsungs and lgs for £399 and are hd ready with freeview tuners,that must beat any deal avalible 15 years ago

 

[Alec]

oeurf:laserman16:Andrew Everard:

custos:As for the other suggestions......Likening a castle and top end German car engineering to a largely plastic piece of basic home entertainment, put together by folk that will not be overpaid for what they do, from countries that may not have European standards of worker care,.....Well gentlemen, really.................Cos they are the same.....Exactly the same.

A Golf GTi and a TV are both mass-produced consumer products. So yes, exactly the same.

And both will have a lot more technology in them than 15 years ago.........

Yep and the lcd tv's of today need all that 'extra technology' just to get the picture anywhere close to that of a CRT with standard def material hahahaha!!!

Ha! Good innit?

 

[Sorreltiger]

Many moons ago (well, in the 1970s) my girlfriend used to tell a great story about her granny, who was offered a new COLOUR TV instead of her old black and white one by the family. "No, thank you," Granny replied, "I prefer the natural."

 

[Alec]

Sorreltiger:Many moons ago (well, in the 1970s) my girlfriend used to tell a great story about her granny, who was offered a new COLOUR TV instead of her old black and white one by the family. "No, thank you," Granny replied, "I prefer the natural."

Are you going anywhere with this?

EDIT - Sorry. That was abit short. but i am genuinely interested as to your point.

 

[carter]

i would still like to no what this tv was.i no some people say the flat pannels are not as good as crts but i wouldnt swap my tv for the set my perants had 15 years ago

 

[John Duncan]

It was a JVC.

 

[carter]

did a quick web search all i could find i a jvc shaped like a space helmet with a close down viser i think it was 70s