On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 01:59:04 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:28:49 -0700, Dr Hfuhruhurr
wrote:

Agreed.
Personally I would rather pay £400 for a Blu-Ray player that doubles
up as a gaming console, than £400 for just a player. Having said that
i'd rather pay £200 for a universal player, so I think i'll leave it a
couple of years

Leave it three years and they'll be £20 in Sainsbury's.


Exactly. But if it it *really* meant you were condemning yourself to 3
years substandard 'movie viewing' you would have to ask yourself if
wasn't a *saving* too far...??

Nah. The quality problems I find with films tend not to be anything to
do with the technical standard of reproduction. In fact high def and
hi fi tend to do nothing more than reveal the nastiness even more
clearly.


It was
suddenly revealed to me a couple of years back that being an early
adopter was a mug's game; it was an Arcam DAB tuner that was the cause
of my Damascene moment.


My first DAB tuner was a Technics, slashed to a ridiculous low 300 quid
from the then 499 RRP - my present (equally good) DAB tuner can be
easily got from eBay (graded, ex-display) for 30 quid + 12 quid P&P..!!

Quite so.

d

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