Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Home Theater Is this a reasonable setup?

Whoo Hoo!

Don't wait for the new stuff to drop. By the time it does the new 'new' stuff will be out and then you'll want it instead. Just buy the biggest screen you can afford from last year. Trust me once you get it in your basement and away from the newer screens down at the appliance store, you'll never notice whatever it is that it doesn't have.

I bought Sharp's 60 hz LCD screen even though sitting next to the 120 hz & 240 hz models it wasn't the BEST looking model. All I had to do was remember back two years when it first came out how much better it looked than anything else in the store, and how bad I wanted it, but couldn't afford it. Then I looked at the price tags & realized that there was no way the other screens were worth two to three times what this one cost.

And now that it's in my living room it looks stunning. I don't ever notice that it's an inch thicker than the L.E.D. screens are. Nor do I notice it refreshing itself half as many times as the newer screens. Or that it has a measly 10,000 to 1 contrast ratio... which is about as high as the human eye can notice a difference anyway (sort of like audio equipment that play up to 40,000 hz... The human ear can't hear anything above, what 18,000 or something like that? Likewise screens with 1,000,000 to 1 contrast ratio's are overkill. It's wasted on the human eye).

And the reason I don't notice any of those things is because all those other screens are down at that store, not in my living room. Once it's in your living room, it has no competition.

I suspect you are 100% correct. However, it is a character flaw of mine to over-analyze any purchase over $200. The new Sammys are due very soon and if they have decent blacks and good 24p, I will buy one. Otherwise, it will be a Panny 54G25. Either way, there will be a set in the basement by May (just in time for flooding season ha)

Dude, I over analyze any purchase over $20. You're doing well.

we've been there and done that, You're not full of anything

OMG, so you're saying... (Gulp) he's 'Hollow Man'???

If only he were full of love, he wouldn't have to feel so empty all the time.

He's....he's.....ANECHOIC MAN!!!

Anechoic Man is the one that cannot reverb to his old form?

He tries to do it frequency, I mean frequently.

Technology changes so fast that by the time you buy the latest gizmo, the next one is out anyway. I bought a TV last year that was last year's model, but about 2 years behind in technology, at a fairly cheap price. This works well for me.