TroyRD
Grip
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2003
- Messages
- 19
You would think it would be fairly easy to choose a RPTV!
But it seems just about every Manufacturer has some glaring problem and one has to make compromises. I have been a loyal Sony fan for what seems like forever, so I thought it would be an easy choice for me to choose one of their tv's.....guess again....I orginally intended to purchase a 51ws500, but after listening to all the horror stories of flickering problems that occur 5 months after you get them, I know I will not be happy. Everytime I watch it I would be carefully examing the screen looking for the dreaded flicker problem to start.
My original requirements were: $2000-2500, 50 inch or larger screen, and had to have a cabinet width of 52" or less....Sounds easy right?
Well, anyways to shorten this, I have finally narrowed it down to a Pioneer elite Pro-530HD, but its way over budget and I need someone to talk me out of it before I pull the trigger. I was also considering the 533 (I can get this model cheap enough to have it isf calibrated and still be around 2500 total), but its a 2 year old design and has no DVI inputs. Seems when I get tv's I always get one just a little behind the times to save some dough, last tv I bought didn't component inputs, as they were just being introduced on higher end models at the time, and sure enough within 2 years I wished I had it, tv before that lacked s-video...same thing, wished I had gotten one with them shortly after purchase.
So HELP, why can't someone just make a reliable, perfectly calibrated tv, right out of the box, without breaking the bank....even the pioneer I am looking at currently is known to geometry issues out of the box that will most likely need to be tweaked.
Troy
But it seems just about every Manufacturer has some glaring problem and one has to make compromises. I have been a loyal Sony fan for what seems like forever, so I thought it would be an easy choice for me to choose one of their tv's.....guess again....I orginally intended to purchase a 51ws500, but after listening to all the horror stories of flickering problems that occur 5 months after you get them, I know I will not be happy. Everytime I watch it I would be carefully examing the screen looking for the dreaded flicker problem to start.
My original requirements were: $2000-2500, 50 inch or larger screen, and had to have a cabinet width of 52" or less....Sounds easy right?
Well, anyways to shorten this, I have finally narrowed it down to a Pioneer elite Pro-530HD, but its way over budget and I need someone to talk me out of it before I pull the trigger. I was also considering the 533 (I can get this model cheap enough to have it isf calibrated and still be around 2500 total), but its a 2 year old design and has no DVI inputs. Seems when I get tv's I always get one just a little behind the times to save some dough, last tv I bought didn't component inputs, as they were just being introduced on higher end models at the time, and sure enough within 2 years I wished I had it, tv before that lacked s-video...same thing, wished I had gotten one with them shortly after purchase.
So HELP, why can't someone just make a reliable, perfectly calibrated tv, right out of the box, without breaking the bank....even the pioneer I am looking at currently is known to geometry issues out of the box that will most likely need to be tweaked.
Troy