Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Advice from Axiom Owners New TV for my bedroom advice please.

I believe you just Camthreaded a Camthread.

I like that Bob. I Googled it to see who's quote it was but it's too long a phrase to nail it down in a short time.

I therefore will consider it another noteworthy Bobism.

I don't know about noteworthy, but I always give credit. It was an academic paraphrase of "standing on the shoulders of giants." That one, Murph, Koogle says you can Google.

You can do it, too! Just spend more than a decade writing 50-page grant proposals to the most arcane of institutions, asking that they pay for you to do something that THEY think is arcane.

They're suckers for a philosphical postulate, as long as you combine the words "community," "under-served," and "enrich." "Minority" don't hurt, neither.

Oops! Sorry. Back to bedroom advice for Cam.

I want Murph to do my home security/surveillance system.

Cam sorry it has taken so long to give you my impressions of the LG 55LW6500. I didn't recieve it until Friday night Dec.16th because it sat on a dock in Phoenix for over a week. Apparently CEVA Logistics only has one truck per week that comes to Yuma. OK first of all we have gone from a 32 inch Samsung LCD display to the 55 inch LED/LCD. It reminds me of when I changed from a 19 inch PC monitor to a 30 inch one. It takes a little while for your eyes to adjust to the larger display. I haven't had a great deal of time to really explore all the features but I will say that Hidef broadcasts are very detailed, the color is excellent and the blacks are black. The matte screen does work well in the bright room and has significantly reduced the glare we get if we have the drapes open in the daytime. I watched several football games over the weekend and they looked fantastic, delivering clear crisp images. We(the wife and I) watched HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PT 1 and we both thought the video quality was outstanding. Of course hearing the soundtrack on our Axiom system made it even more enjoyable. The smart TV is very easy to use. The wand motion controller is very cool but it lacks a QWERTY keyboard so if you are using the web browser you have to point and click on each letter to type. You can however create favorites for sites you visit often so that helps. I watched one 3D demo just to see how it lookes, the depth, color and brightness seemed good to me. Do not base any decision on the 3D quality by me as I have very limited 3D experience. Being able to stream audio, video and pictures from our server is really cool too. I am an amatuer photographer so it will be really nice to navigate to folders on the network and do slide shows in the theater room. All in all I am very pleased with our purchase and having a large screen display adds greatly to our home theater experience.

Thanks, dude. I was awaiting your review . I'll have to drop down to the LW5600 because there isn't a 42" model in the 6500 series.

I've looked at A LOT of reviews and haven't come across one of these LED sets that don't have quite a few uniform user complaints (poor CS regardless of the brand is all too common, but not entirely surprising, I guess). On Future Shop's and Best Buy's website, Sony TV's easily have the most amount of reviews with the highest rating average.

I'm really undecided, but it looks like it's either LG or Sony .

Thanks again, it's greatly appreciated. I'm happy you're happy .

Sony.

I've always said that when you look into all the TV's out there you can find some sort of issue with all of them, it usually comes down to which one you like the look of and can afford. I also tend to put some emphasis on the CS side of the reviews just in case something ever goes wrong.

Hey John, I've always felt that strictly feature wise, most Sony products seem to provide less features for more dollars when compared with similar product lines. Care to elaborate?

Not arguing at all, I really know nothing about TVs. Since it is rare that you recommend anything without detailed elaboration, I'm curious to know if this is based on thoughts/experience regarding build quality, picture, etc.?

[Edit] Oops, double posted somehow.