New TV ?

[Windpower]

After 27 years I have decided to retire the SONY

We are thinking of the Panasonic 42 inch plasma Viera

any other recomends (friends have good things to say about the Samsungs)

(and no it is not about viewingteh Super Bowl -- Although coincidently I was in Indianapolis yesterday for a service call at IUPUI and they are closing the campus tomorrow and Monday by 'suggestion' of DHS -- I drove by the hotel the Patriots were staying at just off the U's campus)

[Redoverfarm]

Make sure that it doesn't fall in the fault crack or it will be money down the  drain hole.

[Windpower]

Make sure that it doesn't fall in the fault crack or it will be money down the  drain hole.

yeah when you are in a rumbler like that one it makes you think about enjoying life 

[MountainDon]

After 27 years I have decided to retire the SONY

When we retired a 20 year old SONY I thought we were doing well. Just a few years back when broadcast went digital.

[fishing_guy]

I'm still hanging on to my 1975 Zenith 25" console.  Indoors, the tube tended to go all green at intermittent times.  Moved it outside to my smoking lounge in the garage and it happened not so much.  Been enjoying it like that for the last 12 years.

[rick91351]

I'm still hanging on to my 1975 Zenith 25" console.  Indoors, the tube tended to go all green at intermittent times.  Moved it outside to my smoking lounge in the garage and it happened not so much.  Been enjoying it like that for the last 12 years.

Quality goes in before the name goes on!  Zenith..............

[peternap]

I just bought an LG.
Quality seems very good.
BTW...did you know they'd invented something called High Definition.

The first night I had it I almost shot it, because it looked like a Tiger was in the room.

[Redoverfarm]

Antique. No not black & white but tubbed.  I have a 26" Magnavox that I have had for 20+ years.  I know it will not last forever but I shutter at the fact that it will eventually die.  The biggest reason I dred replacing it is that I have a custom entertainment center that I built and the space for the tv is limited.  So if/when it goes I will have to downsize to a flat screen of lesser size.  I have not checked on the new features of the flat screen varities but I like the Magnavox "smart sound" feature.  The commercials are mutted in volume from the regular show. 

[rick91351]

I just bought an LG.
Quality seems very good.
BTW...did you know they'd invented something called High Definition.

The first night I had it I almost shot it, because it looked like a Tiger was in the room.

According to the internet LG bought Zenith.  They used a lot of their ideas and rights.

[MountainDon]

..... have a custom entertainment center that I built and the space for the tv is limited. .....

We were in the exact same situation. Eight foot long entertainment center I made from red oak, walnut strips, some zebrawood. Plus matching bookcases with built in speakers on each end. Filled a wall. Lots of drawers with full extension slides, pocket doors that opened and hid. Then nothing began to fit right. CD's came along, vinyl went away, TV's changed, etc etc. I knew long before I wanted to admit that we were going to have to get rid of it. I finally bit the bullet when I saw how crisp the images were on the LCD flat screens, AND how much better I could read things on the screen.

So we sold the entertainment center, real cheap. Best not to dwell on that. I was not going to be happy with the size and shape of flat screen that would fit in the hole where the 27 inch glass tube sat. Now that wall has other furniture and a 26" LCD sits on the coffee table a few feet away from the sofa. When we watch TV it's the two of us. When there's a larger group we don't watch TV. I can plug my laptop into the HDMI input of the new TV and have a nice monitor I can also see my computer stuff on. I am actually very happy and got over the loss of the entertainment center I sweated over. Things change and so must I. But I still don't do facebook. 

[NM_Shooter]

Not sure I like having an HD TV... it seems as though the time it takes to change a channel and settle is excrutiatingly long.  Especially with Samsungs.  Funny how that one second delay can be annoying.

[waterbug]

We bought a 50" Samsung 720p Plasma HDTV in May of 2010 through Amazon. It wasn't the latest or greatest model but we thought it was good enough for what we need. The price was very good and the shipping company not only delivered it, they brought it into our house, set it up, verified everything was working properly and took the box and wrapping materials to the garage before the guy left. We were very pleased with the service and have enjoyed the TV. A friend of ours in Dallas had a significant component failure in his $3,500 flat screen HDTV about 2 months after we bought our Samsung. He replaced the it with the same model as ours and has been very pleased with it as well.

[Redoverfarm]

Yes Don why was I so short sighted when I made this.  But then I don't believe there was flat screens or they were out of my price range.  I thought about modifing what I had at some point to fit a larger screened TV into but with the same as you, pocket doors and speakers would prevent it from looking right.  I do have a garage apartment that I have yet to work on.  Maybe I can use it there even with a smaller screen ( small rooms there probably) .

[MountainDon]

I made mine in 1985-86 or so. Flat screens back then were those roll up/down white or silver  screens on a stand you viewed 35mm slide shows and 8mm movies on.   

[Windpower]

Panasonic Viera 42 inch plasma


so far very nice

more later

[Windpower]

This is good technology

streaming netflix and pandora via WIFI

easy set up

great picture quality

it is nice (and rare) when the hype actually is reality

we ejoyed a movie and pandora music for dinner (free)   very nice tonight

We are in a FM dead zone -- so the pandora is very good

so far two thumbs up