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BLAUPUNKT 40 Inch Full HD 1080p LCD TV with HD Digital Freeview & USB Media Player PVR £239.99 (+delivery?) svp.co.uk
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This full HD LCD-TV in elegant casing is perfect for every living room. Via the USB-connection digital TV-programmes (via DVB-T) can be recorded directly on a memory stick or on a USB hard-disk. TV-sets of the brand Blaupunkt offer the best picture quality thanks to A-brand panel and 12 months free of cost onsite pickup service (within the scope of warranty).
umc-slovakia.sk/de/…kt/
svp, blaupunkt or umc?
Isn't ALL Blaupunkt low end now? Rather like Bush, Goodmans and all the other brands that sold out (quite literally).
Well Bush, Goodmans, etc were never premium brands! Blaupunkt on the audio side were fitted to the likes of Mercedes
Do they just buy them from China and re-badge them?
The bezel looks a bit big for an up to the minute TV but the price is unbeatable.
They were both - once upon a time, back in the 60s - every bit as 'premium' as Blaupunkt. Both Bush and Goodmans made good quality products, and their market position was much the same as Blaupunkt. Check their histories.
Maybe in the steam age but Blaupunkt was premium recently or still is
Power consumption (use) 135 W
Annual energy consumption 197 kWh
.. thats shocking, ive been looking at alot of tvs reciently and thats by far the worst power consumption ive seen. cost you £60 a year to run
Blaupunkt were premium auto installations until the late 80's since then they have been superseded and kicked into mediocrity by the likes of Bose / Harmon Kardon.
To be honest I don't think there is anything much lower than this but there is a huge amount of products of a similar standard. Nowadays it seems most sets are generic chinese models either assembled in China or somewhere in Europe. It could be Vestel in Turkey, Cello in the UK or numerous other companies around Europe like UMC. It's basically a Mstar cpu/gpu (soc) based PCB with a low end panel. Perfectly servicable televisions but the branding on them means nothing.
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I would not believe that. What does annual energy consumption constitute because if this was on all the time 24/7 for a year according to your figures this would use 3.24 kwh per day, which equates to 60 days of solid television per year, or 16% of the year.
The real point is WHO REALLY CARES. I do not buy a TV and think can I afford to turn it on? I turn it on when I want to watch TV and off when I don't. The cost is irrelevant. I am sure that 99.9% of the population also do this, so where are you coming from?
the point i was making is a toshiba with a A* energy rating is about £80 more.. you might aswell pay that get a better tv and in the long run works out the same price as this (as it will use alot less electricity) some only cost £20 a year based on 8 hours use a day
If you watching 8 hours of TV a day, I suggest you stop, go and get a job and then you would not have to worry about the cost of "running" such an extravagant, exorbitant TV such as this.
i work long hours, my tv is hardly on. im just saying for people out there. was only giving abit of logical advice
That's fair I suppose. Although I would wager that image quality, purchase price and longevity are significantly more important than running cost's when buying a TV, unlike something like a car, for example.
well yeah, most people dont even look at power consumption. i agree its not a main selling point but worth a mention
There's also the little matter of a more energy-efficient telly being better for the environment.
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The main reason for the increase in consumption is the set is CCFL backlit not edge lit LED. CCFL needs more power and leads to bulkier sets but often gives superior back lighting uniformity especially on cheaper end sets like these. Edge lit LEDs can produce clouding and banding which many people can't live with. It's also much more common/noticable on the larger screen sizes like 40,42 and 46" etc. So this may actually be one of the advantages of this set in performance.
Also some of the CCFL backlit sets have better sound simply because they are deeper and can fit in better speakers. Edge lit LED sets tend to be very thin often meaning smaller speakers are fitted. This set appears to have a 2x9W sound system but some of the newer edge lit sets only have 2x6W for a similar size, some as low as 2x3W. Clearly an improved sound system demands higher current too and this will effect overall power consumption.
Clouding/banding
Can someone tell me if there was some kind of printing error in English textbooks? I can't think of any other reason why so many people make that mistake.
How did you work that out?
I worked out more like approx £30 to run (15p per unit)
Maybe it was my cheap phones fault, should have bought an iphone.
clearly Blaupunkt would put their name to some low end equipment, it's there on UMC's website.
Made by budget manufacturer UMC by the way
umc-slovakia.sk/de/…kt/
Goodmans was indeed a qualify manufacturer of hifi and loudspeakers till the early 80s. Bush used to make some of the best British radios. Pity that by buying their badges, current cheapo importers think they can easily mislead the consumer.
"What about cruise control? Does it come with cruise control?"
"Hey no problem Miller, let the mayor go; we'll even throw in a Blaupunkt"
Classic film, but my point is: even dating back to the 80's, Blaupunkt was seen as a quality brand like B&O or Bose.