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I'm wanting a decent sound system for my Xbox and my DVD's to go along with my 28" Widescreen TV in my room. However I don't know too much about them. Could anyone recommend me some decent kit for £200 max? I take it for the Xbox I need an optical cable? Also my JVC tv has a built in dolby pro logic II surround decoder. Is this any use? Thanks.

I'm wanting a decent sound system for my Xbox and my DVD's to go along with my 28" Widescreen TV in my room. However I don't know too much about them. Could anyone recommend me some decent kit for £200 max? I take it for the Xbox I need an optical cable? Also my JVC tv has a built in dolby pro logic II surround decoder. Is this any use? Thanks.

Avoid any specifically designed for gaming (i.e all the shoddy Creative 5.1 systems), also avoid any that act as the AMP/Decoder for 5.1 speakers unless it has the BOSE tag next to it :) Aside from that I can't really offer any advice on the cheaper systems aside from if you can find a Yamaha TSS-1 which was the first system I had, excellent for around £200-220

Pro Logic 2 is decent for PS2/Cube games but as far as I am aware there aren't any Xbox games decoded for Pro Logic 2. Pro Logic 2 is nothing like Pro Logic which is just awful to be honest.

Show offs. But not for long, come September I'm getting a 40" plasma screen. Boosh

Oh yeah and for Xbox use Optical. If you can try to find one with a HDMI input/output for future proofing. If this is just a stop gap for a better one just make sure it has Optical, I have never used Coaxial for 5.1, poorer quality connection.

lcarus wrote:
> Show offs. But not for long, come September I'm getting a 40"
> plasma screen. Boosh

Good luck with image burn-in :D

I'm naive. What's that?

The reason why I went for LCD and not Plasma.

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This might put you off a little.

Go for the Sharp Aquos - awesome.

More stuff here as well:

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Gah, turns out I've heard of it before :S

Only reason I want plasma is because Tiny are selling them cheaply 42" for under a grand ain't bad. Are the plasmas thicker than LCDs?

Depends what make/model etc, in general no they are identical cosmetically. Plasma's tend to handle black images better as LCD runs on a back light where as Plasma uses gases.

Plasmas are also generally cheaper than LCD, I know I could have had a top end Sony 42" Plasma for the same price I paid for my Sharp Aquos 32" LCD TV. Life span on Plasma TV's is also a hell of a lot shorter, on average 20,000 hours as opposed to 60,000 hours on Sharp Aquos.

Never owned a Plasma but have watched a fair few s**tuff on them. Read a sh*t load about both though so I am aware of the pros > cons etc.

Depends on your budget. I know the Tiny ones are cheap but I think they only do some like 856 x 486 pixels and don't have DVI support etc.