10-15 feet away, as big as you can get, I have a 55 inch Sony LCD in my bedroom and a 60 inch Sony LCD in my living room. They are both the kind with the stands, not a panel that you hang on the wall. They’re great TV’s, even the guys at AVS forum have been snatching them up if you can still find them, everything is going flat panel.
If money was no object I would go for a Pioneer/Panasonic Plasma, if I was budgeting I would look for my type of tv or the biggest 720p lcd or plasma I can find. Go to AVS forum and you can find tons of information, personally I don’t care for DLP’s, I think the picture on the LCD’s and Plasmas are “stronger” if that makes any sense.
I think I have enough credit left on my 2 cards and the HELOC to get a really top of the line system!
Hi everyone,
I just got added to this list as my wife and I are ready to purchase a new television. Our current one is...nearly twelve years old.
I don’t watch any television at all, except for sports (football mostly) but I rent and watch movies a great deal. My wife does watch a great deal of television (I don’t know how she does that, but I am sure she thinks the same of my Internet habits...:)
Anyway...I know you folks are going to laugh at this. We decided it was time to get a new television, so...we took a walk through Best Buy, and after we walked out, my wife said to me...guys, get ready...
“Well, I guess we are going to have to spend about $5000 dollars to get something decent...”
LOL...I nearly fell on the ground! It was all I could do to kind of mumble “Yeah...looks that way...”
Anyhow...my way of doing this kind of thing is to buy the biggest and best I can afford, and keep it for a long time. So, I started asking around. My buddy works at Bose, and he asked some of the engineers he works with, and he heard them say Vizio a few times. I notice there are a few folks on here who like them as well.
I am looking to get a 60” model, 1080p, but...I have a few questions:
1.) Why do you need more than one HDMI input? I guess the old way (my current way) of doing things requires that you wire stuff through one component to the next to the next...if you use HDMI, do you plug every component directly into the HDTV set? Does it all automatically interact and interopt that way? I had bought a Harmony remote a few years back, and my wife thought I was whacked out paying $250 for a remote (something you can do when you don’t have a DOG that eats them, like a friend of mine does!)
2.) I am a computer guy, and I noticed the ethernet port on the back of some of the sets I saw, but not all. What do they use them for? Are they for streaming from your computer, to be used by a company for diagnostics, or do you connect some cable systems that way?
3.) It sounds like some of the disadvantages of plasma that were present in the past have been somewhat overcome, but on the other hand, it sounds like LCD is getting larger and cheaper. I am definitely not interested in DLP or projection. Any thoughts on this?
4.) This is going to sound like a kind of silly question, but remember...we don’t have cable, and our television is 12 years old...are things like picture in picture standard on these things, or is that more a function of peripherals you would buy or install?
5.) Wall mounting looks like a great option to me...is there anyone out there who has mounted their unit and wished they didn’t, or the other way around? Anything to look out for?
6.) What is the best location for the connections...I presume the back kind of bites especially if you want to wall mount, but should I go for the bottom, the side or both? (I saw only a few sets that offered both...is it worth being that picky?)
I know these are a lot of questions (and might be kind of noob-like) but having been on FR for a few years now, I don’t expect to be tortured much for my ignorance...
I hope...:)