Taking a tv to the phils

[JimOttley]

Well I've just got a ps3 and now want the tv to go with it. I think I maybe the last bloke in the uk with a crt tv. So it seems check if the tv can switch between pal / ntsc, keep my ps3 and try to get a bluray / dvd player region free

You're not the last mate 32" Philips CRT and I'm sticking with it, my eyesight isn't what it once was and I prefer the overall response of a CRT set.

Only the very high end LCD's seem free of artifacts in the picture and stuff like that bugs me

I think almost all the DVD players I've seen in the Phils are region free, even if they are not, all the pirate disks will be free of any kind of regional coding

But yes your check-list is basically fine!


Jim

[bornatbirth]

Well I've just got a ps3 and now want the tv to go with it. I think I maybe the last bloke in the uk with a crt tv. So it seems check if the tv can switch between pal / ntsc, keep my ps3 and try to get a bluray / dvd player region free

thats it

You're not the last mate 32" Philips CRT and I'm sticking with it, my eyesight isn't what it once was and I prefer the overall response of a CRT set.

Only the very high end LCD's seem free of artifacts in the picture and stuff like that bugs me

I think almost all the DVD players I've seen in the Phils are region free, even if they are not, all the pirate disks will be free of any kind of regional coding

But yes your check-list is basically fine!


Jim

my crt gave up last year,i had it for over ten years so cant complain.

with any new tv you need to update the firmware and make sure the signal source is an upscaler to 1080i like sky hd or a humax freesat box and it will be a big improvement over anything else like the built in tuner or standard sky box.

i cant see the point in watching philipino tv on a 1080i,as i never seen a decent picture on any tv

[JimOttley]

with any new tv you need to update the firmware and make sure the signal source is an upscaler to 1080i like sky hd or a humax freesat box and it will be a big improvement over anything else like the built in tuner or standard sky box.

i cant see the point in watching philipino tv on a 1080i,as i never seen a decent picture on any tv

I tend to agree the only point would be in watching blue ray DVD's or as you say upscaled ordinary DVD's.

I wanted to get Digital SkyCable at our place in Las Pinas the other year, I was willing to pay a full year's subscription up front but they refused because no one else in the subdivision had SkyCable already.

We ended up with analogue Las Pinas Cable which is pretty variable quality and a limited range of channels, it is a third of the price of SkyCable at less than 500 peso a month so that is a good thing given the change in our personal circumstances this year but it would have been nice to have digital TV over there. :(

About a week after SkyCable refused us and Las Pinas cable had gone ahead and installed, someone with a half a brain at SkyCable called back and almost begged us to let them install, they had finally figured out that expanding their network into a new subdivision is a good thing and not as most people in customer services departments in Philippine companies seem to think just an expense

Ah well same applies to PLDT, getting a land line is ridiculous bureaucratic mess and we had already had an account with them for over 2 years at a different address !


Jim