I'm going to order new tv 46-52 inches wide. and also HD player, and the Hi-Fi. What do you think will work best with N900 from the TV available? plasma or lcd (led)?

currently looking into Pan, Sony and Sams 3d panels. either home theatre from those above or yamaha (maranz, denon) hifi and DUNE (running on linux) hd player. Pioneer is not an option unfortunately.

reqs: it should be good enough for the following 4 years, and the audio for 10 years. It should also have good wireless networking and work with Pan hdc-tm700 camcorder.

on the hi fi front, what is better, wired acoustic or not?

while the tv out on the n900 is decent i can imagine you will only be disappointed with 46+ inch of it! i used to work in a tv store and always reccomended plasma over lcd at 40+ inch, while lcd is improving all the time the lag is still pretty noticable watching football at that size. although tbh i haven't seen an led screen at that size yet at all to compare to.

For 10% of your cost of the plasma TV, you can have a projector and 120" screen, see it here,

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=43549

Like Robert Redford once said, "if you can have steak, why settle for hamburger?"

bun

get the new pan 3dtv. its the closet thing to pioneer as the ex pioneer engineers workd on it. projector will only give u a fraction of the life a new tv will. read the cnet review of the panasonic 3d tv. for the blu-ray i would get sonys only decent product the ps3. for sound aint gotta clue lol

thanks for the replys. will definitely look for Pan first. dollars would be also a point to consider. projector is not an option since there is no wall available so could not be installed and I'm not a big fun of projectors until I get huge home theatre room for it. so projector would be much more later and next steps are TV, HDTV Reciever, HD Player (Dune), Yamaha AV Receiver (RX-V765 or better), Low-Mid Yamaha speaker set (777, 333, 444 + YST-SW216).

By the way, does anyone uses any kind of hi-fi in that pricing segment? Are there any better solutions for the 5.1? maybe denon or onkyo receivers are better or I should use another speakers?

I run a 43" Pioneer Plasma PDP-435 (bit long in the tooth now, but still beats most LCD's I see in the shops today for picture quality) hooked up to a Denon AVR-1909. The n900 output through that combo is actually very watchable/listenable - I can watch an XVID DVD-RIP from n900 on the plasma and the output is pretty close to the output I'd get when playing the same file from my PC to the Plasma directly - slight fuzziness if scrutinised closely, and very slight jitter to the replay at points, but pretty decent.

Viewing the n900 UI on the plasma is also quite decent, certainly usable.

The pioneer was top end 4 years ago (cost an arm & a leg). The Denon is a great buy (I paid £399 about a year ago) as it's a proper AV receiver for not much more than a generic 5.1 system you'd get form the high street. OK, you still need to buy the speakers but my top tip: I use some utilitarian satellites from an old panasonic "all in one" 5.1 system plus my faithful celestion DL8's for the front channels with NO sub-woofer. Sounds a bit daft, I know ... but the DL8's can handle all the bass you throw at them (the Denon unit just routes the low bass freq's to the front channels if you don't have a sub-woofer connected) and it leaves me with a proper, pure stereo sound I luuurve for listening to music. As you can tell, I don't bother much with Blu_Ray etc. so this may be irrelevant to your needs (but if you're worrying about connecting n900 to a bigscreen, then you are not going all out for quality anyway) :-)


HTH

It has a surprisingly clean image on my 42" Panny plasma:

thanks guys.