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Got a Sony last year with £100-old-telly-trade-in from Tesco. Best thing was, any old telly would do, so gave them the non-working portable CRT from the kids room which must have cost £49 new years back... 
Got ethernet on it, 4 HDMIs and has a load of free web tv stuff to browse in hi-def.
There's also a Virgin Media HD+ box, a wii, a DVD and a Popcorn Hour Digital Media box to factor in. All on HDMI with optical sound where possible -
Had to have a 5:1 sound system to go with the new telly though, didn't I? So got that hooked into a Sony amp. Problem is the wife is technophobe and can't get her head around multiple source selection etc...
Eventually managed to hook it all up into a smart power hub so you just power the amp on and it switches the telly and everything else on. Source selection is then done on an Octava remote HDMI/Optical switch. So got it down to one button on/off, and 1,2,3 or 4 depending on what else she wants to see.
There are smarter remotes, like the Logitech Harmony, which you program in to start/stop everything, but we have an 8-year old and a 1-year old who are able to press buttons that we never knew existed and wipe out a day's setup at a single stroke.
The back of the telly looks like a rat's nest and I probably would take a few hours to re-familiarise myself with my own work. Anyone seen approaching the telly now is dealt with using extreme prejudice
Got ethernet on it, 4 HDMIs and has a load of free web tv stuff to browse in hi-def.There's also a Virgin Media HD+ box, a wii, a DVD and a Popcorn Hour Digital Media box to factor in. All on HDMI with optical sound where possible -
Had to have a 5:1 sound system to go with the new telly though, didn't I?
So got that hooked into a Sony amp. Problem is the wife is technophobe and can't get her head around multiple source selection etc...Eventually managed to hook it all up into a smart power hub so you just power the amp on and it switches the telly and everything else on. Source selection is then done on an Octava remote HDMI/Optical switch. So got it down to one button on/off, and 1,2,3 or 4 depending on what else she wants to see.
There are smarter remotes, like the Logitech Harmony, which you program in to start/stop everything, but we have an 8-year old and a 1-year old who are able to press buttons that we never knew existed and wipe out a day's setup at a single stroke.
The back of the telly looks like a rat's nest and I probably would take a few hours to re-familiarise myself with my own work. Anyone seen approaching the telly now is dealt with using extreme prejudice
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