As a consultant/installer of HT products, my clients are not always "big league" when it comes to higher-end HT setups, sometimes they want to do a 70 incher quite honestly and that is big enough for them vs. 60-65" diagonal measurement sizes. There are usually a couple rows or a curved seating area of 5-6 reclining seats, depending the space provided; sometimes the application calls for 12 feet from the heads of the viewers (or less). In either setup, a 70" Sony RPTV was used, be it the older LCD RPTV in 2004-05 or the more recent XBR2...so now NO 70" sets from Sony? What do they think: My clients will buy their $33,000 70 LCD panel set or be "stuck" with their much-smaller 52" LCD panel (the only other size)? NO WAY...I will move them to the LCoS 70" JVC if they still make them and buy/recommend everything else that is NOT Sony, too, if that is the way Sony want to "market" its products! The only other thing I can possible think of is 65" Plasmas from Panasonic or 65" LCD panels from Sharp in the Aquos line and move the seating up a foot or so. As for pricing, sometimes I can get good discounts on the 65" sets, especially the LCD Sharp models, sometimes within several hundred of the recently-dumped XBR5 70" from Sony, too, so that is not an issue for most of my clients when they hear of this. Even if Sony starts (if ever) selling 65" LCDs, these will be so cost-prohibitive (See their XBR5s), that I STILL won't recommend them after this.
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As a consultant/installer of HT products, my clients are not always "big league" when it comes to higher-end HT setups, sometimes they want to do a 70 incher quite honestly and that is big enough for them vs. 60-65" diagonal measurement sizes. There are usually a couple rows or a curved seating area of 5-6 reclining seats, depending the space provided; sometimes the application calls for 12 feet from the heads of the viewers (or less).
In either setup, a 70" Sony RPTV was used, be it the older LCD RPTV in 2004-05 or the more recent XBR2...so now NO 70" sets from Sony?
What do they think: My clients will buy their $33,000 70 LCD panel set or be "stuck" with their much-smaller 52" LCD panel (the only other size)?
NO WAY...I will move them to the LCoS 70" JVC if they still make them and buy/recommend everything else that is NOT Sony, too, if that is the way Sony want to "market" its products!
The only other thing I can possible think of is 65" Plasmas from Panasonic or 65" LCD panels from Sharp in the Aquos line and move the seating up a foot or so.
As for pricing, sometimes I can get good discounts on the 65" sets, especially the LCD Sharp models, sometimes within several hundred of the recently-dumped XBR5 70" from Sony, too, so that is not an issue for most of my clients when they hear of this.
Even if Sony starts (if ever) selling 65" LCDs, these will be so cost-prohibitive (See their XBR5s), that I STILL won't recommend them after this.