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So it’s been about 2 weeks that I had taken the plunge and bought myself a nice big screen TV, the decision has been a long time coming and a patient wait, a wait to see exactly what I should invest in.

I’ve had plenty of experience with TV screen I use to do promotions for Sony, a company I love and put my trust in, they’ve always been reliable and they really focus on what’s important…. The picture, the sound, yip Sony does it right, which jaws my problem when deciding on buying a screen, I knew the ins and outs of the brand and it’s competitors, and I knew what to look for, which made it ever more difficult to buy a screen, but in the end I decided on the what I needed, and after careful consideration weighing out the different types, LCD (including the LED panel light ones) Plasma and OLed , I found that Plasma was my answer, as I really wasn’t going to watch all that much TV, I needed something with a fast refresh rate for both action filled movies and 3D, and descent colour and contrast , and about a 46-50 inch screen and well this combo either calls for a R23 000 - 30 000 Led screen or a R8 500 Plasma, and so the plasma won , Oled just isn’t an option right now, I’d prefer to wait it out and see how the technology evolves and prices begin to become more affordable, and see if there are any bugs that need to be ironed out.

Back to the point at hand, the new plasma screen, it’s awesome, colour and contrast is really good once calibrated I’d give it about and 8.5~9 , and for a high entry level it is performing very well, active 3D shutter system is decent (if you have the money to go the LCD / LED route, go Sony their active 3D shutter system is 100 times better).

My only real thoughts are with regards to the Smart TV aspect, it’s a fun idea, I can connect wirelessly or directly via Ethernet and then I can use apps like twitter , Facebook, YouTube , it’s awesome…. Well apart from the fact that wifi in the room it’s in isn’t ideal, so it drops signal, so streaming movies from Plex… Well that often gets dropped, so lets run a nice long Ethernet cable, on the wifi I had to put in the handy 12 character password not ideal when using arrow keys to operate the onscreen keyboard, so plugging in an actual cable attached to the wifi router should be simple as password is already in, well unfortunately not! Yip that’s right I needed to put in the whole password in again, oh and if you decided to quickly switch back to wifi…. Get ready to put in the password all over again! So the TV isn’t that smart, and as for the apps yea I used them once or twice, but to be honest, when I sit down to watch a good movie with lights off and my popcorn at the ready, twitter is the last thing on my mind.