Plasma owners : advice please!

[Woz]

So - we've just sold our house and the buyers want my projector and screen, so I've got some money to spend in the new house on a new setup.
The plan is to do a garage conversion next year with a screen and PJ, so in the interim we want to put HT in the lounge, but keep it subtle.

I've just ordered six of these :


http://www.orbaudio.com/

They're getting rave reviews everywhere, and they are being compared to the Anthony Gallo equivalents, but they cost about 1/3 of the price!
They are about the size of a grapefruit, so they should be pretty discrete in the room.

We're also looking at getting a plasma - I think spending about 1500 quid. I know that ReHaB has one, and I think there's some more of you that have, and I wondered if there was anything I should be looking out for.
I want to wall hang it, and I don't want it to have any speakers built in if possible, because I'll have the Orbs to do that. The wall where it would be best is only a stud wall - would this work? I know that they can be heavy, but I presume there is a way of hanging them on there.

Any advice for me?

Thanks.

[jamie]

Woz, Ill have a word next week with our guys who fit plasmas,see what they would recomend for a stud wall.

[DE-G@vnor]

Any advice for me?

On second thoughts, no ....

[Woz]

Woz, Ill have a word next week with our guys who fit plasmas,see what they would recomend for a stud wall.

Cheers Jamie.


Up yours G@v.
(I'm still not going to vote either).

[DE-G@vnor]

capitalist pig dog.

[John Dee]

Good place for plasma is http://www.nexnix.co.uk/

I got my plasma from them and had no problems

[Woz]

Good place for plasma is http://www.nexnix.co.uk/

I got my plasma from them and had no problems

Good site!
I'd forgotten about them, and they seem to have the one I'm looking for at a pretty good price too.
Cheers.

[jamie]

Hey John whereabouts in manchester are you from?

[John Dee]

Manchester and not one of those hangers on areas like Oldham or bury

[jamie]

City centre then? I live in swinton, and the worlds angriest man himsef lives not too far away in salford.

[-ReHaB-]

Shouldn't have any problems with a stud wall, as long as you know where the studs are. The plasma will be around 40-50kg for a 42" so unless the wall is really flimsy it will be ok. You have to be sure that the holes of the bracket line up with the studs of course if not you may have to put in extra bracing inside the cavity of the stud wall (this might be a good idea anyway). As you know, mine is on a solid chimney wall so I didn't have any of those issues.

As far as suggesting a Plasma. Well you need to know what size you want and you have to take into account the design you and your missus want for the room. Also will you need a HD with HDMI connection or will you make do with a SD like mine untill prices of HD drop to a resonable level.

[Woz]

As far as suggesting a Plasma. Well you need to know what size you want and you have to take into account the design you and your missus want for the room. Also will you need a HD with HDMI connection or will you make do with a SD like mine untill prices of HD drop to a resonable level.

I'm pretty sure that 42" is the size I'm going for - it's a pretty big room of something like 25x25, so it needs a big screen.
As I'm looking at spending around 1500 quid, I think HD is well out of my range. I know from having a PJ that you can get pretty darned good pictures out of current resolutions, so that doesn't really bother me.

Your's is a Panny PWD6 or something isn't it?
Nexnix seem to be doing the PWD6 for about 1300 quid, so that fits the price I'm looking for.
Does this panny come with a VGA connector on it as standard do you know? It's possible I'll drive most of this with an HTPC...

[John Dee]

Yes the panny PWD6 has VGA as standard and you have to buy more cards for other connections

P.S the panny rocks (it was the one I got)

[Leigh]

www.av-sales.co.uk are supposed to be very good for plasmas and have some cracking deals on

[-ReHaB-]

Like John Dee say the PW6 Has VGA onboard. Although I have no idea what broadcast TV will look like going through a HTPC then into VGA.

I have Sky going through a RGB>component converter and DVD using component also. Both are routed through my recently aquired Onkyo TX-NR 900e for switching.

BTW this Onkyo have one great feature apart from sound quality and component switching. It has Net-Tune so it can stream MP3s from my server...gotta love that

[Woz]

Like John Dee say the PW6 Has VGA onboard. Although I have no idea what broadcast TV will look like going through a HTPC then into VGA.

Well, there's several Digital Telly cards for the PC now, so I'm thinking that I would be able to drive DVD, digital telly and streaming media through a moderately low-specced machine. The real problem I see is that I need the interface to be child and wife friendly. They are all used to TiVo, so I need something at that level.
With this, I would be able to dump cable telly - we've worked out that the only thing we watch on the subscription channels is 24 on Sky1, which hardly seems a good deal for 25 quid a month!

With one of these : http://www.av-sales.co.uk/html/rgb_to_p ... n_vga.html
I could possibly drive everything through the one port, and not need to buy any extra boards for the plasma, although I'd need a monitor switch.

I have Sky going through a RGB>component converter and DVD using component also. Both are routed through my recently aquired Onkyo TX-NR 900e for switching.

My current amp doesn't do component switching, and I'm not sure I want to spend on an amp as well, so component looks like an expensive option to me.

[Worm]

Like John Dee say the PW6 Has VGA onboard. Although I have no idea what broadcast TV will look like going through a HTPC then into VGA.

Well, there's several Digital Telly cards for the PC now, so I'm thinking that I would be able to drive DVD, digital telly and streaming media through a moderately low-specced machine. The real problem I see is that I need the interface to be child and wife friendly. They are all used to TiVo, so I need something at that level.
With this, I would be able to dump cable telly - we've worked out that the only thing we watch on the subscription channels is 24 on Sky1, which hardly seems a good deal for 25 quid a month!

With one of these : http://www.av-sales.co.uk/html/rgb_to_p ... n_vga.html
I could possibly drive everything through the one port, and not need to buy any extra boards for the plasma, although I'd need a monitor switch.

I have Sky going through a RGB>component converter and DVD using component also. Both are routed through my recently aquired Onkyo TX-NR 900e for switching.

My current amp doesn't do component switching, and I'm not sure I want to spend on an amp as well, so component looks like an expensive option to me.

My pioneer does Comp and monitor switching, its a great bit of kit for under a grand!

[Woz]

My pioneer does Comp and monitor switching, its a great bit of kit for under a grand!

Your amp was a grand?
Well, there's no way I have that sort of money - that's nearly what the plasma will cost!
I have a reasonable amp, and being as this is for the lounge, not the eventual Home Theater, I don't want to spend that sort of money.

[Worm]

My pioneer does Comp and monitor switching, its a great bit of kit for under a grand!

Your amp was a grand?
Well, there's no way I have that sort of money - that's nearly what the plasma will cost!
I have a reasonable amp, and being as this is for the lounge, not the eventual Home Theater, I don't want to spend that sort of money.

UNDER a grand silly I paid £850 for it, I think its only 600 odd quid now (which is VERY cheap for an Air Studios/THX 7.1/DTS/ES blah blah suck my balls and chew my nipples switching AV amp)

See what you mean though, my HT is in my living room as I garage is host to my gym, I already have a games room so I doubt the mussis will let me have anymore space. (she will change her mind when I come home with a plasma/projector one day)

[Sander]

I've got the Pioneer 434 PDP (or something), almost have it a year now, it works great. I've attached a picture when I just hung it at the wall with the special wallmount.

It was tested best tv by most British magazines.