porcy62

Wise decision, prices should come down, and new technology will help, but if you are in hurry... BTW, I didn't know about HD Sky, are all the channel broadcasted in HD, or only football?

Realism is not subjective, that's the reason because every tape for broadcasting has, or should have, standard color bars at its start, because you can measure the color, and tune up the broadcasting. To put it simple let's we say we have a scale from 0 to 1, black should be 0, white 1, if black is 0.2 it appears like dark grey, if is less then 0 we have a kind of unatural grey that seems a damaged LCD monitor. Definition depends of the number of pixels, or lines, if you prefer. In order to appreciate an HD monitor you need, like you said, an HD source. AFIK there are no channels that broadcast in HD, a part some experimental one. We would need a new HD software and HD players. As usual we are seeing the common 'war of formats', Sony HD is different from Panasonic HD, they are based on different algoritms of compression, (you have to compress every frame of a movie shooted on film), they are, at moment, incompatible. HD is probably going to cancel movie shooting on film. But, in order to show a movie in a theater you have to transfer your HD movie on film, because theaters haven't got HD projector. As you can see the thing are a bit mess at the moment. Frankly would you bet 4K on this?

What I tried to point out is that, in the professional market, we can't use the today's new flat screen. When I have to work on the color correction on my editing deck I have to know exactly what color looks like. I have to check on separate instruments in order to balance black and white. The last prove I usually do is to make a copy on VHS, or DVD now, of my edited and mixed work and check it on a my JVC CRT TV, at home. Most of the time, I spent hours to do a better job on audio mixing and balancing colors only to discover that I lost my working time. You can't appreciate my work on an average CRT TV (to LennyH, I was speaking of the 'State of Art' studio CRT monitors), and broadcasting quality is usually very low, at least in Italy. If you wish you can compare it to audio. A thruthful studio monitor (loudspeakers) could be less pleasent to listen to at your home, (fatiguing, ecc), but at work I have to know exactly how to balance the soundtrack: music, ambient sound, dialogues, ecc. I couldn't work with Tube amps or Electrostatic loudspeakers. Everyday Sony, Panasonic and all the big industries put out some different format of digital video. Their goal is to lower costs, raise the quality and get the most part of the market. Every format has its qualities and defects. Sadly, it's a cost for editing studios because we have to buy a new costly editing VTR for every new format. Thing are changing quickly, HD, 16:9, who knows what will happen in the next future? So if you like a big flat screen TV, let's buy it, if you like its colours and its design. No problem for me. I was trying to explain that you will not find 'THE' TV. Tomorrow Sony or Panasonic will put out something better, or different. It's a matter of tastes, exactly like audio gears. A last suggestions, if you are going to spend more then 1K on a TV, be sure that they have all the plugs: S-Video, Scart, composite video, RGB component, Serial Digital BNC (Is there any 'serial digital' BNC connection in consumer's DVD and TV gears?, I don't know, but it's the only way you don't loose quality, purely data transfert, no noise, RF interference, ecc., otherwise go with RGB, less video noise then other analog connections) And now, after my humble and unrequested lecture I'll go back to my beloved tube pre amp and my TT. As I said it's a matter of taste, we are not arguing about thruth.

May you please remember me if it was the Corto Maltese's picture?

I find all these posts interesting as buyer of jazz records, but I never discussed with my financial agent about Lexington's pressing or True Blue. When JPMorgan will include them in some of its investment fund, or Moodys and Standard and Poors will appoint an AAA on a 47 West deep groove, I am ready to change my position, until then I agree with Michel.

Nor do I, but actually I haven't any avatar. My latest one was lost in the one of the server's disaster some times ago, when I lost a lot of posts in the counter. You may say I was reduced in rank by The Big Digital Demon.

Picture quality does not seem to be the most important factor for many buyers. Most people just want a large and flat screen. For that reason, companies usually offer screens in different price ranges. For example, Sony has 5 different 40" LCDs, from $1500-4000. The difference is in the picture quality, the technical features and the design. The cheap models usually have the technology from the previous generation. For 4K I would prefer get one or two of that infamous 'Lexington' pressings that pop up on eBay.

Which third is that? Left arm & left leg? MG Actually, I am a CSI fan, so I just started a necroscopy on the corpse of Ludwig Van Beethoven. Pretty well conserved, I couldn't say the same when I did the necroscopy of Mozart

The Third of LvB, Berliner, Karajan

If you can't appreciate the positive effects of a great wine, or a good jazz vinyl, for your mental health, you need a good doctor, no matters what the analysis of your liver indicate.

The most depressing Mosaic is the one that you really wanted and now is out of print.

The Sixth of LvB, Vienna Philarmonic, Boehm directing. Fortunately Clem didn't rummage in the vinyl forum, otherwise I would be a dead man.

I have a 36" Sony 4:3 CRT XBR TV now. I've become an HD junkie. I watch it almost exclusively. Georgeous picture. Unfortunately, the 16:9 picture is only 33" diagonal. It's big, but I want bigger. The biggest 16:9 CRT TV ever made (and still being made) is a 34" by Sony. When you pillar box a 4:3 show, it's 22" diagonal. Microscopic. BTW, Sony still makes a non-XBR 4:3 36" diagonal CRT. If you don't need or want one bigger, it's a great bargain at less than $900. Be aware that it weighs 216 lbs (75 kg)! Kevin I didn't look at your particular model yet, I was talking about my professional experience. (BTW the Pro Sony monitor is 17'', sorry for the mistake) BTW in Italy it's almost impossible to have a look at CTR bigger then 17" in any shop. So I presumed they didn't produce them anymore. Anyway, in the broacasting the bigger is the depht of the monitor, the better is the accuracy. Since I am not a physician I haven't got any explanation for it. And when I was looking for a new TV for my new house, I saw a lots of flat screen models, and nothing that justified their costs, compared to quality.

Let me tell you one thing, and I am speaking as professional film and video editor. None of the today's LCD or Plasma monitors can reach the definition, the realism and the quality of good catode tube monitor. When I check my final work for broadcasting I do it on a professional Sony catode tube monitor, 15 inch, that cost twice the price of the best flat screen you can find on consumer market. So if you HAVE TO buy a flat screen, do it, I understand all the facilities that a flat screen has compared to a bulky cathode tube. If you HAVE TO buy a biggest TV, buy it, I know that manufacturers deleted from their catalog cathode tube bigger then 17 inch. BUT if you don't need a new TV, just wait. Technology is running fast, companies put huge amount of money in the field. Flat screen IS the THING now. Maybe we will have some pleasant surprise in the next future.

After a morning spent on DEXTER and McLEAN on BN, I just put on the TT 'The Basament Tapes' from Dylan and the Band. I am very proud of my new LP shelves, designed by a friend, an italian designer. I'll post a photo of it one of this days.

I have the Kempff stereo cycle on vinyl, plus a couple of records of Gilels, I inherited from my father. I prefer Kempff, BUT I am not a CLEM-XPERT, or NESS-EXPERT, nor a musicianz. I just love that hiss and pops and clicks the needle produces on my DG records. I didn't listen to Brendel cycle, but I like the guy, maybe because his photos on the covers of some Mozart records remind me of my dad, I am not joking, they look like twins, in picture. Sorry for the useless post, but this stuff moved some nostalgia for my old father.

Some years ago, the producer sold the records still in stock on internet. That was prior to eBay crazyness. On the contrary of BN I found these vinyls fairly often in italian used record shops and at decent price.

My wife did mention salmon's mousse when she talked about Christmas dinner the other day Welcome back, Porcy62! Thanks! In order to prevent any risks, you should donate your collection to someone before Christmas

Thanks! I am glad to be here again, after my intemperance and drinking for the victory in WC. Meantime I moved in the new house.

At one time not that long ago I had FOUR copies of TRUE BLUE in various states of condition. I eventually took the best jacket and the best hunk o plastic and put them together and sold the rest--too early as usual, but now I have one VG+ jacket and one NM hunk o TRUE BLUE plastic. But it actually hurt a bit when I mailed them out to Japan, Hong Kong and Germany . . . I think you're not married with a greedy wife and didn't grown up greedy sons...otherwise you should have already taste the Salmon's Mousse.

The querelle can last indefinitely, 'does cables sounds?', 'the measurements...' and all these bullshits Easy to joke about it. But is anybody out there who can explain the difference of a Stradivari's sound and a new violin scientifically and philologically built like a Stradivari? Same woods, same trees, same forest. Why do they sound different? The pollution of modern trees? Was Stradivari the Devil? Or the wood in the Stradivari's era was different because of an ice age, or, like someone said recently, Stradivari cut the wood during the full moon in August?

I bought basically every BN cds I could find in the last fifteen years. (new, used, you name it) Now I am buying the original BN vinyl I really love and listen to, plus some records never reissue on cd. I don't know the exact number, but it costs me a lot of money. At the same time I get so much pleasure to listen to them, and tomorrow my wife and sons will put them on eBay when I will be gone. So, what's the problem?

The main reason is that most of great jazz collectors died, and their sons are much more interested in money then in vinyl. And what about the wives ? http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZado1357QQhtZ-1 When the Grim Reaper knocks at your door, look at your wife and blame the salmon's mousse, take a last look at your Lexington BN" and RIP. One little suggestion: never, I say never, let your wife and sons understand the value of that stupid round piece plastic called TRUE BLUE, and avoid salmon's mousse.

The main reason is that most of great jazz collectors died, and their sons are much more interested in money then in vinyl. I personally know a guy whose father was one of the main italian jazz critics, his collection was around 15,000 original pressings. The only problem for me is that the son is a good and talented jazz pianist so, no way to put my hand on the collection. Maybe I gonna make him an offert he can't refuse. As soon I'll find a horse's head.

Exactly