And as all good field service engineers will tell you that's where the feckin problems start.

it takes an engineer 3 weeks to complete a tender, and a halfwhit from sales to miss the OJEU deadline by 3 minutes!

I bet them in sales can probably spell half-wit correctly mind?

Another question ...



Could do with a tablet PC for the house, it has to boot up immediately (thats the big complaint with the ancient PC that serves the house now) and will be used for casual browsing/doing the banking etc using the house wi-fi, doesn't need 3/4G, will probably be used for watching on demand TV too and then various downloadable "angry birds" type games.



A 7" screen is fine, HD not absolutely necessary but I'm looking at either sub £100 or may go to £150 if the features make it worthwhile.



Someone at our office showed me their Blackberry Playbook the other day which is currently on a price-slash, or I've been looking at a Kindle Fire and a couple of sub £100 unknown brand android devices.



Any thoughts on the BB or a specific alternative ?

Any company that has that on a flow chart deserves all the misfortune it gets

Quote JerryChicken="JerryChicken"Another question ... Could do with a tablet PC for the house, it has to boot up immediately (thats the big complaint with the ancient PC that serves the house now) and will be used for casual browsing/doing the banking etc using the house wi-fi, doesn't need 3/4G, will probably be used for watching on demand TV too and then various downloadable "angry birds" type games. A 7" screen is fine, HD not absolutely necessary but I'm looking at either sub £100 or may go to £150 if the features make it worthwhile. Someone at our office showed me their Blackberry Playbook the other day which is currently on a price-slash, or I've been looking at a Kindle Fire and a couple of sub £100 unknown brand android devices. Any thoughts on the BB or a specific alternative ?'" Might not be your cup of tea but someone (and I dont mean me!) bought my 6 year old son a Ainol Elf II tablet. From what i've seen of it so far it's really good and has all the feature you mentioned. www.amazon.co.uk/AINOL-NOVO7-ELF ... B0087DA8YK

Quote JerryChicken="JerryChicken"Another question ... Could do with a tablet PC for the house, it has to boot up immediately (thats the big complaint with the ancient PC that serves the house now) and will be used for casual browsing/doing the banking etc using the house wi-fi, doesn't need 3/4G, will probably be used for watching on demand TV too and then various downloadable "angry birds" type games. A 7" screen is fine, HD not absolutely necessary but I'm looking at either sub £100 or may go to £150 if the features make it worthwhile. Someone at our office showed me their Blackberry Playbook the other day which is currently on a price-slash, or I've been looking at a Kindle Fire and a couple of sub £100 unknown brand android devices. Any thoughts on the BB or a specific alternative ?'" Might not be your cup of tea but someone (and I dont mean me!) bought my 6 year old son a Ainol Elf II tablet. From what i've seen of it so far it's really good and has all the feature you mentioned. www.amazon.co.uk/AINOL-NOVO7-ELF ... B0087DA8YK

Playbook is a great machine let down by a hopeless OS, Samsung Galaxy 7" are a good price as is the Google Nexus both at the higher end of your price list. The Kindle Fire is a decent machine too, a little too tied to Amazon for my liking though.



Ainol do some great machines at the cheaper end but buy from a UK based seller.

Having some trouble with the usb player on my tv.



It can handle pretty much most thing's, but lately I've watched 2 things in an mp4 format, and they play fine up until around the last quarter, then both videos have just stopped playing and sends me back to the menu. I can't play past the point where they stop and even when fast forwarding past where the playback stopped it just shows the same split second where playback stopped before then goes back to the menu.



The files work fine on my pc so don't think bad files are the issue.



It's an LG tv btw if that means anything.

Looking to buy a smart tv 42" or bigger, anyone bought one recently to recommend.

Maybe it's just me not knowing what I'm looking for, but I really don't 'get' plasma. A bloke I work with tells me they're unbeatable, but I look and think the picture looks a bit dark and generally not that smooth. I was in Selfridges last night (God knows why, it's a horrible place), so I decided I'd try comparing a few of the TVs they have on show. All of the LED/LCD TVs they had out looked far better than the plasmas on show. When you went right up close, the detail looked much clearer, the edges seemed smoother and the colours were brighter and seemed more natural. I imagine if I was to go home and read a review on the TVs, the plasmas would probably win the review as they always do, but I really don't see why. As I said, maybe it's because I'm not an experienced eye, but I don't get the plasma love-in.

Would never buy a plasma tv, I'd personally stick with LED.

Plasmas are better for the 47"+ TVs.



The latest LG range of LED Smart TVs have a great picture, we have one (42"icon_wink.gif and bar the sound (which all thin TVs have problems with now) it's a top notch TV.