Info and forum posts by 'steveny'

RE: Scart to Svideo

The only standard Sky digiboxes with S-video out were the later Grundigs/Thomsons.

This item was edited on Wednesday, 12th January 2005, 21:04

RE: Are any of the £700ish Rear Projection TVs any good?

Might give that a try at some point just for interests sake - although not at the moment as I don`t want to disturb the wife watching "Desperate Housewives" (should I be worried??!!). I have to say though that as I never watch the set with nothing connected to the scart and on full brightness then I won`t be too worried if there is something noticeable! There are certainly no such defects visible during normal use (and believe me I am very fussy!).

Someone will certainly get a nice second hand set sometime after 31st December 2005 when the 5 year service plan expires and we replace it with something a bit more "cutting edge".

I know technology moves on and prices fall. Set cost £1499 in 2000 but did get the "stand" (i.e. somewhere to put the digibox/video) thrown in, that should have been another £199 as I recall! I don`t regret the purchase one bit, and still consider it to have given us good value for money.

RE: Are any of the £700ish Rear Projection TVs any good?

I have never consciously restricted the time that the set has been used for gaming - it has only been limited by my attention span at the time. When playing through GTA III and Vice City on the PS2, for example, many of those sessions were pretty long!

With regards to Sky, the most frequently watched channels in our household would be any of the childrens ones, the music channels, Sky One, UK Gold and E4.

I would estimate that the set has been used on average 7-8 hours a day over the last four years.

BTW, the model number of the set for anyone interested is a 40PW03DB - not that it is available new any more, but may help you to identify the current equivalent Toshiba model.

RE: Are any of the £700ish Rear Projection TVs any good?

I have owned a Toshiba 40" widescreen rear projection set since December 2000. It is a basic model, 50Hz and Nicam Stereo only (no 100Hz/Prologic etc) and probably comparable to the £700 sets available today.

The set has been connected to Sky Digital since I have owned it. It has also been used with a Philips DVD recorder, Pioneer DVD players, a Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox and Gamecube over the years.

4 years on from purchase it has no screen burn at all and the picture is as good as the day I first took delivery of it. The only problem I find with the set (apart from just 1 scart being RGB but I knew that when I bought it) is that the convergence in the corners of the screen tends to drift over time. This has always been sorted though by the friendly engineer from the local electrical superstore that I purchased it from under their service plan that I took out - don`t usually bother with these but it was a major purchase for me at the time.

I can honestly say that the set has provided much enjoyment and proved to be excellent value for money, and still performs well to this day.

Hope this is of some help.

Regards, Steven