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Originally posted by VirusKiller:
Daniel, take note! The last thing I put on mine was a Tosh XA1 and some kid with glasses and a shedload of white chocolate actually bought it for me! laugh
Precisely why I am of two minds whether to be cheeky enough to post it or not ( smile ) as I do have a wish list - a UK one at any rate. I was updating it this morning funnily enough as my sister loves these things and was bugging me to add a load of stuff to it in light of my birthday next week. I`m always failing to update it regularly, and when I do it`s more as a casual reminder of things I`d quite like to buy myself at some time or other rather than for other people to pick at.

There`s a whole Canon camera kit on there which I`d been mulling over as an alternative to the Xbox and the new TV - in fact I was pretty set on it, finally nudging myself to move on from 35mm slr photography and into digital, but the Xbox deal which I found out about yesterday caught me off guard (the console alone is about �270 and this deal is for the console, 4 well regarded games and a second pad for �299). So that of course got me into the mentality that plugging a 360 into an interlaced TV with a scart lead is no fun and if I am to pay that much money for a game machine I`m going to want to get the best out of it as soon as it`s taken out of the box, so then I found a good little Sony LCD [the S2530].

Why is it with electronics things tend to snowball? You find one thing you want then you want half a dozen other things to go with it and there`s always bits you can`t afford.

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Originally posted by chrislayeruk:
Daniel, How big will your LCD screen be?

If its small, 32" or less, there is no real point in HD. (Just my opinion).

But it does leave you with time to save for the Big Screen that will make it all worth while.

Also the HD player you then buy will be better and cheaper.

If your worried HD will fail, collect the discs for the future.

Just how I see it, Cheers, Chris smile

P.S. Happy Birthday. How old? smile
It`s a 32inch one yes, Chris. Same (in fact slightly updated version) as a set that a friend of mine has which he runs successfully with his 360 and HD DVD add on. Although I know where you're coming from, I don`t entirely agree that there`s no real point at that screen size as such. I`ve seen HD at 32inches and from a viewing distance within five feet (max) I still think it is an obvious step up in quality. Any further back than that however and the returns quickly diminish without question.

There are bigger sets I am eyeing as a more long term purchase (the new Pioneer plasmas announced this week, Panasonic`s commercial plasma panels, the 2007 SXRDs from Sony, the fresh batch of larger LCDs coming from Sony later in the year…etc), but this set at �549 had crossed my mind as a potential short term purchase which I could then sell on in six months or so to someone in the family and concede a loss of around �100/�150 on. I buy DVDs so rarely these days in light of the HD formats. I miss watching as many films as I used to as a consequence and that's the chief reason the dual format issue upsets me as I know I'm not alone. Those with less to worry about obviously just dive right in and are enjoying both.

PS: 25. I`m amongst the Hitchhikers babies. smile