I'm absolutely certain you're correct..........says the man who bought a Betamax recorder a week before the announcement that Sony were to scrap the system. That's the same man who bought a brand new Rover from the factory at Longbridge two weeks before the company went bust.

 

What could possibly go wrong?

 

Tom

 

Next time you are about to buy something please let us know first

That's the same man who bought a brand new Rover from the factory at Longbridge two weeks before the company went bust.

 

I remember that there were some very good deals on the Rover 75 shortly after the company went under. I always thought that the 75 wasn't a bad car, particularly the MG and especially at the much reduced price. I've never driven one, or been a passenger in one so I might be completely wrong, but superficially, it looked a good buy at the time.

I always thought that the 75 wasn't a bad car, particularly the MG and especially at the much reduced price.

 

I'm of the same opinion. Basically it was a BMW supervised design and has the K series engine which was designed under Honda's stewardship of the company. That's a pretty good heritage for any mid sized car.

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TV's seem to be becoming like computers...... if its on the shop shelf its almost obsolete.

First they were called HD ready and everyone was conned because they were only 720p. Then we bought full HD 1080p sets, only to find out Freeview HD wasn't included. Now we have Freeview HD 1080p sets, but 4K is now out..... then Oled and god knows what else is around the corner.

And dont even get me started about how we've all been conned by DAB radio and the crappy low bitrates that are only giving us Mono sound.

TV's seem to be becoming like computers...... if its on the shop shelf its almost obsolete.

First they were called HD ready and everyone was conned because they were only 720p. Then we bought full HD 1080p sets, only to find out Freeview HD wasn't included. Now we have Freeview HD 1080p sets, but 4K is now out..... then Oled and god knows what else is around the corner.

And dont even get me started about how we've all been conned by DAB radio and the crappy low bitrates that are only giving us Mono sound.

 

I echo all of this, and I'm particuarly annoyed by the way the politicians and broadcasters are trying to foist DAB on us with completely false claims of superior quality.

 

DAB is accoustic sacrilege, far inferior to FM.

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Re Rover cars....... I've only owned 2 in all my years of motoring.

First was a Rover SD1, which anyone would expect to be horrendously bad, as British Leyland were a joke when it was made. But it was actually a great car, great to drive and totally reliable for the 4 or so years i had it.

It made my a bit of a fan of Rover.... so a few years later i bought its predecessor the Rover 800, but that turned out to be an unreliable pile of junk with a catalogue of problems.

Never touched Rover again.

I echo all of this, and I'm particuarly annoyed by the way the politicians and broadcasters are trying to foist DAB on us with completely false claims of superior quality.

 

DAB is accoustic sacrilege, far inferior to FM.

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Yes, if i listen to R2 i only listen to it on FM....

Unfortunately i do like DAB only stations as well, Like BBC6 Music, Planet Rock and Absolute 80's. It really irks me that i cant have decent bitrate quality with them.

Also you never know how long DAB stations will be around..... I used to really like Smooth 70's and Absolute 90's, both have recently been scrapped.

I expect we may get DAB+ at some time in the future. Of course this will make a lot of current DAB radios obsolete. Which will be yet another f*** up for radio listeners.

I remember that there were some very good deals on the Rover 75 shortly after the company went under. I always thought that the 75 wasn't a bad car, particularly the MG and especially at the much reduced price. I've never driven one, or been a passenger in one so I might be completely wrong, but superficially, it looked a good buy at the time.

 

We're a little bit off-topic now but I don't suppose it matters much in this part of the forum.

 

When I bought mine, I was all set to do a deal on a brand new Passat in High Wycombe but held off and decided there and then to drive up to Brum and visit the Longbridge site as they were doing some great offers and I liked the look of the 75 estate.

 

To cut a long story short, the diesel estate model I bought was pre-registered to the company and one of the 'gang of four' directors had been running it as his commuting vehicle for 900 miles. I checked it out with a salesman on their computer system and the director had had it specced with just about everything on the options list.

 

The price with all the added equipment was 28K (new) but they adjusted it down to 18K which compared favourably with the Passat I had looked at.

 

The diesel engine was superb, built by BMW but never actually fitted to any BMW model. Performance was adequate, no better, till I had it remapped with revised acceleration figures making it marginally quicker than both the BMW 320 petrol and their 2.0 litre diesel of that period.

 

Things that stand out in my memory were the ride/handling balance of the 'Contemporary' model using uprated springs, probably from the MG model. A colour TV with teletext, multi-CD + tape player, Webasto remote pre-heating system, (brilliant), Harman Kardon multi-speaker music system and no cam belt as the cams were chain-driven.

 

I kept that car over 7 years and toured through France and Spain on several occasions, only getting rid of it on a whim eventually. As for the regular models in more traditional Rover trim with petrol engines or the V8 model, I have no idea how they drive as I never tested one.

 

Through the years, I have been fortunate to have owned and had access to a lot of very good cars but that Rover was up there with the best of them. I really couldn't complain about any aspect of it.

 

Tom

I remember that there were some very good deals on the Rover 75 shortly after the company went under. I always thought that the 75 wasn't a bad car, particularly the MG and especially at the much reduced price. I've never driven one, or been a passenger in one so I might be completely wrong, but superficially, it looked a good buy at the time.

As you probably know a Chinese company bought Rover cars and manufactured their version of the 75, that original version has now been superseded and here is the latest model http://www.saicmotor.co.uk/model.aspx?page=2

As you probably know a Chinese company bought Rover cars and manufactured their version of the 75, that original version has now been superseded and here is the latest model http://www.saicmotor.co.uk/model.aspx?page=2

 

I like the stretched shape more than the English original, it almost has a limousine look about it. The one thing I wasn't keen on with the original saloon was the rather pinched in shape of the boot rear outline.

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As you probably know a Chinese company bought Rover cars and manufactured their version of the 75, that original version has now been superseded and here is the latest model http://www.saicmotor.co.uk/model.aspx?page=2

 

It's starting to look a little dated, especially around the front end. I would never underestimate the Chinese though, European car builders beware.

As you probably know a Chinese company bought Rover cars and manufactured their version of the 75, that original version has now been superseded and here is the latest model http://www.saicmotor.co.uk/model.aspx?page=2

 

Not only that; the SAIC group also do the final assembly at Longbridge of the MG 3 & MG 6 which, while not exactly state of the art, have much to commend them, not least the low prices. I actually called into an MG specialist in Baldock just last week rather than stand, brain in neutral, in the knitting shop SWMBO visited down the street.

 

Much like Dacia, MG cars now offer a lot of car for the money and are probably worthy of consideration if only on account of price. The industry standard 3-year warranty should ensure no great expense will be incurred for a while.

 

Now, if the older MGB, MGA or MGTF models are more your bag, they are still around, some for sale at that very dealership in Baldock but some of the prices are quite eye-watering!

 

Whether or not the Chinese ever grasp the car market in the way of the Koreans and Japanese, I really wouldn't like to predict but they are lagging a long way behind the established brands in the western world at present.

 

With deference to flecc's comment about the stretched Rover 75 body of the Roewe, Rover actually produced a number of LWB examples of the 75 saloon and I remember seeing one in the showroom area at Longbridge. As for the rear end treatment, a group of Italian motoring journalists gave an award to the Rover 75 saloon as the most beautiful saloon car body shortly after its introduction. Now that has to be as rare as rocking horse wotsits for a non-Italian car to win a styling award in Italy.

 

Tom

With deference to flecc's comment about the stretched Rover 75 body of the Roewe, Rover actually produced a number of LWB examples of the 75 saloon and I remember seeing one in the showroom area at Longbridge. As for the rear end treatment, a group of Italian motoring journalists gave an award to the Rover 75 saloon as the most beautiful saloon car body shortly after its introduction. Now that has to be as rare as rocking horse wotsits for a non-Italian car to win a styling award in Italy.

 

Tom

 

I did hear of the LWB version but never saw one Tom.

 

I also knew of that Italian award but disagreed. After all, they also gave the 1960s Karman Ghia Volkswagen an award, showing how too much of the vino could affect judgement.

 

I thought the 75's pinched in end looked like a copy from Jaguar rear styling stuck onto the wrong body, and believed it would look better without the inward curves.

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Edited December 16, 201510 yr by flecc

do any of you pay the tv licence cos i dont

do any of you pay the tv licence cos i dont

 

I used to, but am over the age where I get it free anyway.

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i do same as in vid and they run away pmsl, dont even use bbc anyway and dont work on my new tv lol.

http://i276.photobucket.com/albums/kk37/necromunger666/20151216_2206251.jpg

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKpWA-whVxg

After much research and deliberation, I've decided on a Samsung JU7000 series TV set.

 

It's not a curved screen. After looking at them, I really can't see the point, but that's personal taste as I'm sure that they suit some people.

 

I've plumped for a 55" screen which is going to look massive. My last upgrade was from 20" CRT to 40" HD and that seemed ridiculously large. Interestingly, the overall size of the 55" set isn't much bigger than the 40" Sony it will replace.

 

Thanks for the tips and advice....... now should I have waited for OLED to become more mainstream? No, I'll upgrade when the time is right for me, just like this time.

It's not a curved screen. After looking at them, I really can't see the point, but that's personal taste as I'm sure that they suit some people.

 

I'm of the same opinion, and for a spaced group viewing, an inwardly curved screen is a disadvantage. Probably only ideal fro single viewing, but again I can't see much point.

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Edited December 17, 201510 yr by flecc

I reckon curved screens are just a gimmick, something different to tempt the buyers that just have to have the latest thing....... Curved screens aren't new though ! All TV screens were once curved, although they were convex instead of concave. Then in the 80's i remember Toshiba making a big thing of their flatter square tube. All TV screens then became flat.

The Gadget Show recently didn't rate these latest curved screens much either.

Then in the 80's i remember Toshiba making a big thing of their flatter square tube.

 

That's an FST......Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba?

40" just fits in my tiny living room so it looks much bigger

 

I have an entry level Bravia without all the gadgets. My computer is a computer I don't need my TV to be one too. I also don't want an internet TV reporting back to base what I am watching unless sony puts it in my living room for free... 3D = waste of time. 4K is handy for looking at photos but there isn't much need other than that I mean you can already see enough black spots and pimples on peoples noses in full HD

That's an FST......Hello Tosh, gotta Toshiba?

 

Yeah, i remember it well...... I think that slogan in their ads was a take on Alexei Sayles 'Ello John Gotta New Motor'

Toshiba were quality TV's in those days..... unlike the cheap junk they are now, like many things now, only trading on a well known name.

3D = waste of time. 4K is handy for looking at photos but there isn't much need other than that

 

3D agreed, but 4K is a huge improvement for TV on large screens, particularly 55" and above. I certainly wouldn't step back now. It's not so much faces as things like scenery, landscapes, wildlife where the greatly improved fine detail wins out. Another benefit is when small print, documents etc are shown on screen, for once they can actually be read.

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We agree, an improvement for static images but I tend to prefer action movies so it is wasted on me. And I have been working on digital imaging since the late 80's so am not your typical spectator.

One of downside of the large screen TVs (55") is that SD sourced material isn't always too hot, some of the TVs don't upscale that well.