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When I 'need' to.
If I go back towards the beginning of my Home Theatre experience, I started, display wise, with a 50" Pioneer rear projector in January 1998 (£4,000!). Subsequent homes couldn't really accommodate such a beast and associated kit, so it went a bit downhill afterwards. A Toshiba 32" CRT with built in DD followed in 2002, a Sony 32" LED in 2007, free following a mobile 'phone upgrade/change of service provider. It's now in 'loft storage' until it goes in to my eldest's bedroom, after his GCSEs..., a Sony 40" LED in 2012 (now in my flat) and a couple of months ago that was replaced by a Panasonic 65DX902 LED. The cats seem to like it, and motor racing.
The (2013) 39" Philips I had in my flat is now in our 'games room' at home serving a PS4, an additional Sony 32" was given to us by my mother in law and lives in our bedroom at home. The TV, not my mother in law.
So, as far as our main TVs go it's every 5 years or so, whether by chance or choice.
I considered OLED this time around but the THX Panny was too good to pass up. I felt it represented the peak of LED technology, rather a promising yet emerging new one, and was reduced to just below £2K when I bought it as a package, along with Panny's '900 UHD player for an additional £150. The Sony A1 seems an absolutely stunning bit of kit, but I couldn't justify £5K. Had it been closer to £3K it may well have got the nod - £2,000 buys a lot of nice wine and 99 Octane petrol. Something of that (OLED) ilk will no doubt find it's way to our home in time, but not before I semi-retire in ~5 years. Assuming no domestic technological disasters in the mean time, that is. |
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Author: haujobbz
1-12-2019 22:13:56