Our 9 year old tv has gone on the blink. It was a great 32″ Philips Matchline job whose only drawback was that it wasn’t widescreen. We started on the hunt for a replacement on Saturday. Tried Soundstore, Harvey Norman, Xtravision, O’Dwyer’s and a few online places.
Result? It is nearly impossible to get a high-end 32″ CRT TV any more. Philips, JVC, Panasonic and Sony have a tiny selection of wide-screen boxes with less functionality than four years ago.
The buying public have decided that they would prefer to pay triple the money for an LCD thing with a narrow viewing angle, awful reflections, crap black and rubbish brightness. Why do I feel like the record fanatics in the 1980s who tried to hold back the CD tide? I guess I am not part of the iPod generation which values form over function; “who cares what it does or how much it costs, it’s sooooo cute”.
Bah. I also have to make the horrible admission that I am seriously considering a Samsung TV. Has the world gone mad? Next thing I’ll find myself buying a Daewoo Chevrolet car. Neverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
[tags]CRT, LCD, Plasma[/tags]
May 2, 2006 at 10:30 am
I thought my 8 year old Blaupunkt was going this weekend as the text etc had turned a funny colour. Turns out it was connecting the new DVD to it that changes the text – PHEW! I really don’t want to have to buy another and go through the hassle of deciding which has the best functionality etc.
I’ve always thought the less LCD and digital stuff that you have on T.V.s and stereos, the better. At least you still have knobs, buttons etc. that can be tuned manually – less finicky stuff that go wrong!
May 3, 2006 at 11:25 am
You mean you haven’t gone HD? Oh my Gawd, you’re soooo living in the stone age. You’re not cool, man. You’re not cool or hawt.
May 3, 2006 at 9:05 pm
For all that great Sky content? High Resolution Dr Phil can wait.
May 4, 2006 at 11:52 pm
If I saw Dr. Phil in high resolution, I’d immediately fall pregnant. That’s how hard he rawks.