WE KEEP UPDATING OUR APPLIANCES BUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE STUFF WE PUT IN THE BIN???
Every day I see old TUBE TV's and other electronic items on the side of the road and that's just in my own neighbourhood!
It's up to us the consumers to put on the pressure . Manufactures and consumers alike need to be conscious of the fact that we are just throwing old technology with reusable and toxic parts into a hole in the ground. Yes that's right all that usefull and toxic material is being buried. TV's for example are loaded with copper, lead , mercury ,plastic and precious metals. So think twice about that hard garbage collection that happens twice a year,it all goes into a hole in the ground and it doesn't go away.
Out of the Trilloins of dollars that are made by electronics manufactures you could say that almost none of that money made goes into taking back the old stuff and reusing the recycleable parts.
I've done a little investigating and there are 2 places that I know in SYDNEY that do recycle your old TV gear and electronics like computers and mobile phones.
I have also contacted my local council RANDWICK and apparently there is a once a year pickup that is not a part of the hard rubbish clean up. There are plans to set up a place so you can take your old electronics for recycling but that may never happen. We the ratepayers and enviromentally conscious must put pressure on councils and local Government to make it possble.
MAXTV have introduced some informative Video Below
About display devices
Fixed pixel displays are LCDs, Plasmas and projectors
A fixed-pixel display is any HD TV or monitor that uses pixels to produce an image.
The rules a fixed pixel display goes by are:
No matter the resolution of the source material, such as VHS, DVD or HD TV, a fixed-pixel display will always scale the source material or picture to fit its native resolution.
If the incoming source has more pixels than the display's native resolution, some visible detail and sharpness is lost, however often what you're left with still looks good.
If the incoming source has less pixels than the native resolution, you're not getting any extra sharpness from the television's pixels. In other words if you play a VHS movie on a HD TV it will not look any good plus most movies on VHS cassette are in a 4:3 aspect ratio.
Picture Quality
According to the Imaging Science Foundation, the most important aspect of picture quality is contrast ratio.
Display resolution (probably the most talked about aspect of display devices) comes fourth behind colour saturation and colour accuracy.
So what to look for in a display aside from the size:
The highest contrast ratio
The highest colours
The best colour accuracy
The highest Display resolution
All at the price I want to pay
Above all trust your eyes. If you're out there shopping take your favourite movie (preferrably not an animation) with you and ask the sales assistant to hook up the best player using the best connection from that source to the best connection of the display. See for yourself.
Put it this way, if you are taking the step from the humble Tube TV to a HD plasma or HD LCD, it is a big one. The wow factor is there even for the base models, however if you already have a high definition display, upgrading to an even higher definition screen can get harder to appreciate because the difference in resolution diminishes. A higher definiton only becomes noticeable if your upsizing to a larger TV and are sitting closer.
The next thing you should look at is inputs and how many of each. Starting from best to worst:
HDMI
Component
S video
Composite
Source devices
(DVD players, DVD recorders, Digital TV, set top boxes and Surround sound amplifiers)
"What goes in is what comes out"
At the moment the top output for a DVD player is 1080p,1080 stands for 1080 lines per inch the P stands for progressive scan. The only devices capable of outputting that resolution are blue ray disc players and other HD DVD players. The only display devices capable of displaying this type of resolution are true HD Screens which at the moment cost a pretty penny.
Don't worry if you have established a large movie library already on DVD most of these source devices are or will be reverse compatible so you will be able to play your old discs on them.
Progressive-scan DVD player's. Channel Seven, ABC and SBS
Yes
Yes
Yes
Analog and regular TV
Up to 576 lines
All
No
No
No
TV display resolution
We've looked at the source, now let's look at the televisions. As we mentioned above, all fixed-pixel LCD's and plasma's etc scale the incoming resolutions to fit the available pixels, discarding information if they have fewer pixels and interpolating information if they have more pixels than the source.
Native resolution
Frequency
TV types
1,920x1,080
Expensive and rare high-end televisions
Flat-panel LCD; DLP, LCD, and LCoS projection
1,366x768
Common in all screen sizes
Flat-panel LCD; 50-inch plasma
1,280x72
Common in rear-projection but not flat-panels
DLP, LCD, and LCoS projection
1,024x768
most common plasma resolution
37- and 42-inch plasma
852x576
found in budget models
37- and 42-inch plasma
Basically put, match the source output quality with the display quality and there you have it.
Another important thing to consider is screen size. The further back you sit the better a picture looks. In other words unless you like looking at the pixels dancing about the screen its not a good idea to put a large screen in a tiny room unless the TV is true High definion capable of at least 1080i coupled with an equal output device pumping out the same.
