Foreign Perspectives

After considerable debate we decided against what seemed like the best bargain around, namely the 37″ LG2000 essentially because it’s out of stock locally, can take up to a week to arrive with anything up to £60 delivery charge and it’s only a 720p set.

So, instead of paying £399 for that we’ve gone for the 42″ LG5010 at £549 and will be off to collect that once we get the old 28″ JVC CRT style monster into the car (the store does recycling).

Why that one? Well, it’s 1080p ie full HD, it’s 5″ larger and it’s in stock locally. In reality full HD doesn’t really matter a whole lot to us right now as the only thing it will directly affect is our full HD camcorder but I imagine that over the years we’ll accumulate a whole bunch more full HD programming to make use of the extra resolution. I suppose in principle we could go for Sky’s full HD offering right now but I’m too stingy to pay for what seems like a lot to pay for very little programming.

Still, at least this telly should keep us going ’til they start rolling out 3D…