oh POO. my tv is broken. and it's all fancy modern screens now... LCD? HD? PLASMA? can you tell i don't really know my ar** from my elbow here?

[AitchTwoOh]

zoinks. just had a squint on tesco direct and there don't seem to be Normal Tellies for sale.

You want an HD ready tv darling.

okaaaaay. they seem v expensive. all of them, i mean. i'm used to spending £200 on a Big Telly. [mean]

Know nothing of TVs though

hth

Do you live anywhere near Farnborough? I've just replaced my 26" CRT and need to get rid of it!

thank YOU.

i'm afraid that i am in sunny jocko-land. but many thanks. that's another thing, what the hell do i do witht he broken teev?

PMSL Benny!

I know they're expensive. I bought mine from a place called HyperFi in Essex/Ilford... oh some such place. Got a Grade A return (ie the box was damaged and the customer sent it back) for 1/3 of the retail price. It's a lovely tv. Biggest I've ever had but small compared to so many friends' tvs lol!

Do you mean to tell me that you've been watching all those lovely telly progs for your job and not getting the benefit of HD?! David Tennant in HD .....

If it's your job, can't you get financial help/a telly provided? When I worked in advertising, they used to pay the rental (yep, it was a long time ago!) on my colour TV so that I could watch the ads. (yeah right!)

i need to find out where my nearest bashed and dented is, i think.

i can proba bly get it back off tax, biwi, but i am mean and that overwhelms my ability to spend.

Well I've never had a problem with my tv (except that it has built in Freeview that I've never taken the time to learn about as we have a Sky box)

And if you buy a smaller screen one, they're not that expensive. We have a 26inch Samsung, and I think it was £499 - probably easy to get them much cheaper now. And you have to be careful because if you have a screen much bigger, if you're not sitting a fair distance away, the picture will be all pixellated. Everyone seems to think that you will want a mahoosive screen, whereas it's not always beneficial.

this is what we've got - now £349.99

Def worth looking out for a second hand crt, if you're not going to get an HD package, you'll never get as good a picture on lcd, or plasma.

Lots are upgrading and getting rid of perfectly good tellies, so worth trawling the ad pages I reckon

we've got a mahooosive front room and a 32 incher at the mo. i think we'd need a 37 to take up the same kinda space.

plasma or lcd, what's the diff?

interesting, smallone. is the freeview upgrading to HD?

I have no idea but this might help!

Have a read of this:
www.johnlewis.com/151_Which+reviews+LCD+and+plasma+TVs/Content.aspx

get a panasonic from john lewis. that's what i want.

Where in Jockoland are you Aitch? I too have a Phillips 26" CRT to get rid of. I'm on the East Coast.

Actually, forget that, just saw your post about your current TV!
Note to self: Read entire thread before posting.

aw, but many thanks all the same.

How do you measure a telly these days? It used to be diagonally.

has it changed?

Don't know! tv stuff is so boring, I dread our (very old - 20 years??- one) breaking