Tim
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1080p rocks! Just need the price of the Blu-ray/HDDVD PC burners to drop a little before I invest.
I have to say after the recent price drop, it's pretty difficult to justify the extra money for the Sony W or X series (the main contenders when I was looking).
In all its glory:
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dave17
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YOU MOTHER FUCKER
THATS THE ONE I WANT 
How much u pay?
Jealous 
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Tim
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£1225 delivered from Empire Direct 
Glad I didn't buy it last month for £1600 
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dave17
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I need about £775 then 
Does it look big in your room? Ive only ever seen it in Currys and all tvs in there look small.
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dave17
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This is the 46" one right?
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Tim
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Naw that's 40". It looks bigger in the flesh than any photo seems to make it look. It's around a metre wide in total.
My lounge is relatively big (sit around 3 metres from it) so I think it's a 'nice' size.
I saw a 46" in the shop and that was a bit imposing
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dave17
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I want the 46" one, i only sit about 3.5 metres away but i want it .
[Edited on 13-02-2007 by dave17]
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Tim
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Ah -- even that is only around the £1700 mark now 
I was worried SD TV would look crap too, but I was pleasantly surprised. That might be the NVidia stuff doing some cool upscaling -- I'm not sure.
[Edited on 13-02-2007 by Tim]
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Robbo
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How can anyone need anymore than 32"
PS very nice Tim
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dave17
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Are you using through freeview?
Robbo - Bigger is better
[Edited on 13-02-2007 by dave17]
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Robbo
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lol
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Tim
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Yeah Freeview tuner in PC, with NVidia PureVideo decoder and drivers.
The 1080p demos I got off the net though are amazing.
I was tempted to get Sky HD, but as I'm likely to be moving in June (stopping paying stupid rent and actually buy) I thought I best wait to get it installed.
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kz
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glad you didnt get sony... the non-hd picture on them 40" or above is terrible. sony rep told me sony dont care about non-hd anymore!
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Mo
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good choice (i work for Empire  )
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Russ
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whats res on the 40" model?
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Tim
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1920x1080 
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Bart
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whats the spec of that machine Tim?
Looks like you got the same case as me, the silverstone something...
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Tim
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Um...
- Athlon X2 4600+
- 1Gb RAM
- 600Gb RAID5 volume (hence the need for the big case hehe)
- Geforce 6800
- Hauppauge Nova-T 500 (dual freeview tuner)
- Modem for caller ID
Sound goes straight to amp via optical cable so just using onboard Realtek HD device.
That's about it. Quite happy with performance now, although it'll be interesting when I get to try some actual Blu-ray/HDDVD disks.
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Bart
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im interested how the modem works for caller id?
Is it just a regular internal modem that recognises an incoming call and displays the number?
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Tim
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Yup just a normal modem (not set to answer or anything).
Media Center automatically displays the number on the bottom right of the screen whatever you're watching
If you set it up with Outlook to it'll search your contacts for the number and display the contact name and photo too (using 3rd party software called TapiRex )
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Ian
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May have to reinstall my modem on for that software - nice!
They have some other great MCE tools as well. I just need the TV now
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