Ambilight?
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- karlo
I am thinking of buying a 37 inch philips ambilight TV - they are about £1000.
You can buy the same TV pretty much WITHOUT the ambilight for £700.
Do you think £300 quid is abit excess for a few lights??
Have you heard anything about them??
Your thoughts please
Ta
Karlo
- skt0
i have never owned a TV.
- you lie
NewElpaso - it's true.skt
- how?sung_konajalinejox
- TVs don't work around him, something to do with an intense magnetic fieldkelpie
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- Studiospooky0
I think the whole idea of this TV is the biggest load of nonsense ever and the Televisual equivalent of fitting coloured neons under a Honda Prelude. I think you'd end up being very very embarrased by it once the novelty wore off.
- Raniator0
If you've got a £1000 budget, forget the Ambilight model and spend the extra £300 on a bad-ass 42".
Sony Bravia all the way, I hear they have just released new models at CES.
- kelpie0
My flatmate bought one. The light is ace and makes a real difference.
- kelpie0
mount it on the wall though, ours is about a foot and a half away till the new flat settles enough to mount something as heavy onto the plaster and the gap reduces the impact of the light.
Its only been there for a short while so I don't know if the novelty will wear off but its kind of fascinating watching it replicate the colour and I'd hazard that the extra perceptual size it gives the image (remembering that your peripheral is constructed from memory and guess work) makes up for the extra 4 inch screen size you could get in a standard tele.
jmho
- weave0
I'm working on the new Philips catalogue right now, they are now releasing this http://www.aurea.philips.com/?la… its the next generation ambilight.
They are only doing a few larger models at the moment and it costa a packet but thought it might be worth a look anyways.
- yeah, the Aurea looks fucking amazing, I've seen it workingkelpie
- Jurre0
i love ambilight, really adds to the mood and experience. When buying a flatscreens i compared them all and my opinion the philips has the best blacks, contrast and widest color gamut. Dearticating is also really good, and non hd stuff also looks sharper.
- Jurre0
oops sorry deartifacting sorry :-)
- kelpie0
Something I've noticed (though it might be the upscaling DVD player at work) is that I've often watched films and thought that they almost looked too sharp, more like HD video than film with a similar look to non motion blurred vid footage. This has been quite weird to get used to, at first everything looked like a TV programme.