Five or six years ago, we had fairly cutting edge A/V set-up in our living room.
A brand new (and v expensive) Panasonic 42″ plasma panel – one of the best panels money could buy at the time, hooked up to a Sky digibox via SyncBlaster and a Sony digital 5.1 amp and DVD player.
Fast forward to today where SD plasma panels, especially those that don’t have a tuner or SCART socket, are a bit, well, quaint.
So time for an upgrade.
The panasonic went to a good home and a shiny Sony 46″ Z series Bravia took its place.
The Mac Mini now hooks up via HDMI and looks splendid. No more fannying about with VGA switch boxes.
PlayStation 3 on order – should arrive shortly, so HD gaming and movies are on the cards.
Same Sony AV amp as before, but it does have optical audio input so no need to change that.
One of the biggest improvements (for me) is that now the screen automatically switches from 4:3 to 16:9 via SCART control. Joy!
No Sky HD though as my building has a somewhat quaint shared single-LNB satellite dish arrangement, but BluRay will fill the HD movie gap.
Now, I wonder if all this will seem equally quaint in another 5 years?
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Yup – Sony [I think] are banging on about 3D TV which is supposed to be The Next Big Thing, then there’s OLED plus a load of other replacement technologies for LCD. It’ll all see very quaint