Home Cinema

I'd like to buy a new tv and home cinema kit, a 42 inch tv and surround sound with speakers that go on the walls. Is there anywhere that does an all in one deal? If not, what tv and home cinema kit would you recomend? The tv will need to be HD ready, but is there much of a difference btween Plasma and LCD?

Thanks

This is a question that could take forever to answer properly.

A lot depends on your budget. You can get decent HC kits that will suffice for a normal home for relatively little money. Or you could spend tens of thousands and get a really top quality one.

I personally have a Sony All-In-One for last 5 years and its ideal for the standard size living rooms in most houses. If you google for home cinema systems you should find plenty. Likes of RicherSounds or Currys etc will sell plenty too.

As for plasma/LCD - again the budget varies greatly. My brother has a 42" Panasonic plasma and I'd say for the money you couldn't get better.

it's for the living room...I'd spend anything up to €2k but the less spent the better obviously

I agrea with RMFC, Skys the limit you can spend up to 20k on a set of speakers alone if you so wish, But thats the far extreme.

LCD V PLASMA

Plasma:

Contrast: Plasmas generally produce better black levels, response time plasmas suffer far less from smearing over the montion caused by Lcd technologys realatively slow response to changing picture information and also plasmas enjoy a slightly wider viewing angel then LCD's.

LCD:

Lcds are virtually immune from screen burn,on screen colour blends are free from what we call the rainbow affect,which older plasmas suffered from,Lcds use less power even though there pictures tend to be brighter and can double as Computer Monitor with their ability to display very sharp images,also viewing angels have improved so I think its something like a 170 dergres now

Also most models of Lcds or Plasmas are full HD now so dont buy a "HD READY" buy a "FULL HD" this will future proof your TV.

Samsung have a good line up of LCDS, I recomend something like the Samsung LE46M87BDX just give that a google should bring it up, its a 46" screen has 3 X HDMI imputs and is full HD, Have one myself and cant fault it and to compleat your home cinema I go for Sonys home cinema system the DAV IS-10, its a dvd player which also upscales the dvds so you will get the best out of your HD TV when watching dvds on it and has Golf ball size aluminium satelite speakers so be perfect to stick on the wall. I'm not to sure of the watt of that sony but they usally pack a punch.

Samsung LE46M87BDX and the Sony DAV IS-10 5.1 home cinema system is what I recomend for you.

Regards

David

thanks for the advice

If you're in Dublin & €2000 is your budget, then this looks good from [broken link removed]. Not full HD though.

want Full HD and not HD ready and needs to have a pc input. 42 inc is the max size as the room isn't big enough for more than that
I have a sterling bank account, would it be cheaper to buy in England and get someone to bring it back than but it in ireland