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Please help us upgrade from our cathode ray!

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twoboots
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Please help with your suggesions help, I`m sinking

We have a 14 year old 19 inch Grundy.  Its too small and I have to accept that its never going to die, so please help me transition to the 21st centuary.  I would love to watch our Wizard of Oz DVD  in high def with my four year old with a beautiful picture and "non-anaemic sound"  

The review on this site are helpful, but when I find something I'm interested in such as the panasonic Tx-P42ST30, it seems to be out of stock everywhere on line.  

If I do look at the more popular TV's from say John Lewis' website, then I cant seem to see a review for that particular size - does that matter?

My budget is £600, ideally including a 5 year gurantee.  

Our sofa is 9.5 feet from the sofa, so I feel that 37-42 inches is about right.

Most of our viewing these days is on the laptop so I want a smart tv for netflix, iplayer etc.  

I would love to look at photos and home videos wirelessly or with a usb stick rather than the multitude of leads that we currently have to deal with.  Skype capability would be lovely.  

We are very much a Mac household - does that matter? 

Not sure about 3d- nothing that i have seen in the cinema has ever really impressed me.  

Looking forward to your sage wisdom Smile

 

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RE: Please help us upgrade from our cathode ray!

ST30 is last year's model. ST50 is the latest one.

Check this: http://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/panasonic/viera-txp42st50b/...

Richer Sounds should price match this for the 5 year guarantee:

http://www.hispek.com/panasonic/3d-televisions/panasonic-txp42st50b-42-f...

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RE: Please help us upgrade from our cathode ray!

This is even better, if you can stretch your budget a bit:

http://www.johnlewis.com/231568176/Product.aspx

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RE: Please help us upgrade from our cathode ray!

thanks big boss, the ST50 seems very temptng, but I want to try to stck to under £600.  We are going to richer sounds today with a memory stick and sd card to see.  I'M particularly intrested in the  viera TXL42E5B 

 

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Upgrade from CRT

I went from CRT to 32" version of this http://www.richersounds.com/product/tv---all/lg/42ls5600/lg-42ls5600.

Very impressed by and picture and motion. The only slight downside is the sound is fairly insipid.

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RE: Please help us upgrade from our cathode ray!

Richer Sounds is a great place to get slightly older (1 or 2 years) TV's that were rated 5 star by What HiFi. We bought our Sony there for considerably less than the original price. The staff are helpful so you should go home with a bargain.

Happy shopping

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