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Random question Weaste...

All this talk of the digital switchover in 2009/2012...erm I have freeview in my room at the moment, which is Digital is it not?...and I can't get half the fecking channels already on there due to awful reception. I assume this will improve?, or are they going to feck channels 1-5 up like they have done with the likes of itv2?...
 
WeasteDevil said:
It should improve when they turn the analogue off. However, you may want to have your aerial looked at.
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The whole buildings got the same problem.

I live in student flats, on the 4th floor and my receptions as shit as someone using a different arial on the the 10th. The main telly in the living area gets its reception from an arial on the roof, and that's also shit.

I get about 3 channels on digital, Dave, Sky news and Sky Sports News. Annoying as feck.

There's only so many repeats of Top Gear you can watch in a day.
 
mjs020294 said:
Most manufacturers are moving away from Plasma
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This is not true, some have never really been in it (Sony for example). Plasma has its place, and some (even the largest of the lot) are banking on it.

The battle between producers of LCD, plasma and other flat TV screens shows no sign of letting up. Today, Matsushita Electric Industrial announced that it will spend $2.5 billion to build the world’s biggest plasma TV plant. The plant will be located in Japan’s Hyogo prefecture and be capable of building 12 million sets a year. Building will start in November with production expected to begin in May 2009.

The new plant will help Matsushita cement its position as the world’s number one plasma TV maker. Last year Matsushita had around 40% of the plasma market, which accounts for 18% of the global flat screen biz. Another 8 million unit capacity new plasma plant is already under construction.

For all that, Matsushita’s plan is as much about cost cutting as increasing volumes. According the Nihon Keizai, a Japanese newspaper, the company is also expected to gradually phase out production at two other older, more expensive plants in Japan, which currently produce 3 million sets a year. The Nikkei reckons the newest plant could reduce the cost of making a new set to $235, compared to $420 for a set produced at Sharp’s newest LCD plant.

Rivals, including Sharp, are also thinking big. Earlier this week at CES show in Las Vegas, the Osaka-based company showed off a huge 108 inch LCD TV. Five inches bigger than Matsushita’s largest plasma offering, Sharp’s giant model, which will likely go on sale in the summer, takes the crown of world’s biggest TV.
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Number7 said:
The whole buildings got the same problem.

I live in student flats, on the 4th floor and my receptions as shit as someone using a different arial on the the 10th. The main telly in the living area gets its reception from an arial on the roof, and that's also shit.

I get about 3 channels on digital, Dave, Sky news and Sky Sports News. Annoying as feck.

There's only so many repeats of Top Gear you can watch in a day.
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The aerial needs to be looked at (the one on the roof), or the multipliers that bring the signal down to the flats. Having your own aerial (not the one on the roof) is not going to do you much good. There could be all sorts of issues depending on what other buildings are around you. There could also be problems with the transmitter closest to you.

To get a decent Sky and BBC/ITV signal here, I need a 2.5m dish because the signal quality is so poor due to it being a focused beam on the UK and Ireland.
 
WeasteDevil said:
The aerial needs to be looked at (the one on the roof), or the multipliers that bring the signal down to the flats. Having your own aerial (not the one on the roof) is not going to do you much good. There could be all sorts of issues depending on what other buildings are around you. There could also be problems with the transmitter closest to you.

To get a decent Sky and BBC/ITV signal here, I need a 2.5m dish because the signal quality is so poor due to it being a focused beam on the UK and Ireland.
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Quite rightly so!!
 
I had awful signals at Uni in halls, signal booster really helped me though, even got the hardest of channels - Setanta. Just incase, have you tried a signal booster?
 
muller said:
I had awful signals at Uni in halls, signal booster really helped me though, even got the hardest of channels - Setanta. Just incase, have you tried a signal booster?
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I forked out £30 for a, what I thought would be, decent arial.

Thanks for the info Weaste but that stuffs out of my control, they wont let me on the roof :)
 
So did I, then I took it back and got a signal booster and it worked perfectly.. just an idea mate :)
 
WeasteDevil said:
This is not true, some have never really been in it (Sony for example). Plasma has its place, and some (even the largest of the lot) are banking on it.
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Plasma prices have plummeted in the US. They will linger around but the reason you are see very cheap Plasma TVs is because they are unloading stock.

As we predicted several years ago, plasma technology is on its way out. Putting one of the nails in the lengthy coffin is Pioneer Corp, who is stopping ALL production of plasma display panels. Last week we reported that they had decided to stop all 42-inch panel production, however that has now been expanded to its entire plasma line.

So there you have it. Plasma has begun its exit from the market as consolidation forces one of the largest proponents of the technology finally exits the manufacturing business and takes on LCD. We're sad to see it go, but it appeared to us at this year's CES that ultra-thin LCDs are going to hit the market much sooner than ultra-thin plasmas. When that happens there is going to be an incredible surge in popularity for the <1-inch thin displays that will push plasma technology further away. The same effect has happened to rear projection television, with manufacturers leaving those markets and technology in droves. Just this year, Sony decided to eschew all screen technologies save LCD and OLED - and it had a large stake in its LCoS-based SXRD line.

http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/plasma-tv-is-dead
 
WeasteDevil said:
And it's bullshit. They are knocking down the prices of the 720p plasmas. Find me a cheap 1080p plasma.... for which the technology is better suited due to screen sizes.
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Just did a search on a US site and the 50" Plasmas are a lot cheaper than the 50" LCDs. The US market is a couple of years ahead of the UK market for HD TVs. Plasma has had a rough ride over here and not many people want them anymore unless the deal is really good.
 
Well give a link.

That "article" that you posted doesn't really stand up. You do know for example that Sony do not make their own LCD panels don't you? And 50" plasmas should be cheaper than 50" LCDs, that's the entire point, LCD does not scale very well in terms of cost.
 
WeasteDevil said:
Well give a link.

That "article" that you posted doesn't really stand up. You do know for example that Sony do not make their own LCD panels don't you? And 50" plasmas should be cheaper than 50" LCDs, that's the entire point, LCD does not scale very well in terms of cost.
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The UK is way behind the US in the evolution of HD and large screen TVs. For instance I have had a HDTV for about 6 years. A couple of years ago the LCD/Plasma split in the stores was about 50:50, now its 90:10 in favor of the LCDs. The 65" LCDs are dropping in price now, down to around $3500(under 2000 quid).

They will still make plasma TVs and sell then in other markets because they are cheaper to make so the margins are better.
 
50 inch and they aint even 1080p.

You're better off getting a full HD 42inch Toshiba Regza for around the same price.
 
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