"Budget"
Does anyone go for budget brands any more? Not sure about anyone else but I'd sooner take those 600 notes down to Richer Sounds and get a last season model of a premium brand.
Cello is a UK TV maker that does much of its business through high-volume websites and shopping catalogues. You’ll find Cello TVs on M&S and ebuyer websites, as well as in tomes from Grattan, Freemans and the like. Cello C42T71DVB-3D Ensemble piece: Cello's C42T71DVB-3D It may be a budget brand, but it scored brownie …
"The LG panel delivers effective 3D from Blu-ray, although there are caveats. Double imaging is low, as long as you view it square on. The 3D sweet spot is very narrow. As with all passive sets seen to date, deviate off-axis vertically and rampant double imaging quickly kicks in. Side-by-side 3D looks very poor though, with overt ghosting. Four pairs of glasses are included in the box."
Low concentration when it comes to reading?
On this subject, why do articles have to be divided across pages? Are readers considered incapable of scrolling through a long page or are the Reg trying to get more page impressions and ads served? If it's the latter, why not show more ads in proportion to the length of the page?
I'd rather have a UK based manufacturer concentrate on a quality HD TV and on their spelling than some old technology tat dressed up to look like something it clearly isnt...
No wonder our exports are so low and the japanese based imports are so high.
Sadly (and dissapointingly) a turd with a shiny coat is still a turd.
Why do they make this? Who would buy one at that price (taking the rock bottom 475 GBP online quote as a basis)? For 500 GBP I found a 50 inch LG PV350 plasma, the same set as last year's PK350, which AV Forums rates as near reference picture quality. Sure it doesn't have a 3D option that gives you a migraine if you sit even 10cm off-axis, but it's substantially better in every way imagineable (incl. slim & thin framed).
My company is using a hot-s*** 55" Sony in a prototype 3d implementation for our motion driving simulators. (Before it comes up from any brand-partisans out there, there were a huge number of unusual and non-PQ-related factors involved in the decision...)
At any rate, it has the aforementioned LED backlighting, with the ability to dim / brighten different areas. While I'm not watching movies on it, for obvious reasons, I've been favorably impressed. And the 3D, at least for my purposes, has been fantastic. The glasses' transmission level is much better than I've seen elsewhere, and the 3D is ghost free except under high separation levels or with extreme contrast blocks, and then at the blazing-bright settings.
So, for simulation, 3D is knock-it-out-of-the-park brilliance when set up well.
As a guy with a dedicated, CRT-projector equipped home theater, though, I retain significant skepticism for 3D's use there. That said, people probably said that about sound and color....
In conclusion: Yeah.
I quote from the article:
The very first dialogue window cautions the user: ‘Please ensure the aerial cable is pluggeg into the tv.’ Pluggeg? Any thoughts I had that this TV has been had been built by erudite British boffins quickly vanished.
What's this "has been had been" bit about then.....??
It's the price you pay for "British" manufacturing. We all should know by now that anything made in Britain is never as good as a Chinese made equivalent, and is always at least double the price of said Chinese equivalent also.
And they wonder British manufacturing is down. Good example right here. Anyone who buys this is an absolute fool (and has probably got money to burn).
If only we'd get the thick kids out of the school system at 7 or 8 years old, I'm sure we could rival china in manufacturing - they're nimble little fingers are ideal for putting together intricate circuitry.
We used the lead the world in child labour, what with the mills and the chimney sweeps.... another sad case of British decline.
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Is it just me who heard this brand name for the first time? That TV looks real crappy. If I were you, I would just buy a TV from original inventor of technology, LG. There are high chance that you would lose all your money just to save up some money. I mean what if your TV breaks down in few month but it is never fixable? like a Vizio set. I wouldn't take the risk since LG TVs are quite affordable and their brand is reliable.