Energize said:
Apparantly the new batch have fixed the geo problems.
Not a chance, you can not fix something that is inherenet to the technology. All crt tubes have some geo issue, short neck tubes will always have the problems far worse.
FWIW my m8 is on his 4th, it is possibly the worst crt screen i have ever seen. Over the years i have had Sony + b+o with folks, Jvc, panasonic + Sony myself and it gives a terrible picture compared to these. Out of focus at edges, geo problems far worse than any i have seen and a very poor iq overall. In hd its not bad, but suffers the same faults.
The Sony HD crt a friend imported years ago is around 12 million times better than the samsung effort and i could even live with a samsung lcd over this set (and that really is saying something)
The shop where my m8 got it from has stated that they have returned more of these sets than any other tv in the shops history (huge chain here) i know the service engineers in our company who andle tv's are going out on lots of calls for them with no fault found as its just how they are. The last Samsung slimfit was equally as bad so its no real surprise, the hd version in the states (same as here basically) gets slated over there when compared to even budget hd crt's.
The only potential good thing is if some good screen makers launch hd crt's on the back of this - from what i have heard this is looking unlikely.
HD crt's can be draw droppingly good and i am a huge crt fan but not in the UK unless its crt projectors.