They're German. The concept of "high end TVs" has been common in parts of the continent for many years. While the UK and Italy had domestic "hi-fi" manufacturers, Germany had domestic "hi-telly" manufacturers.
They really came into the UK in the 1990s, in partnership with Linn (the Glasgow hi-fi manufacturer). Indeed, Linn produced a Loewe-badged version of the Kielidh loudspeaker for the German market, as well as acting as their master distributor in the UK. They're the kind of telly you really need to go and look at, rather than buying off a website... The CRTs, which are the generation I know well, were (to my eyes) absolutely superb picture-wise. 100hz processing years before the mainstream brands did so. I don't know much about their LCDs at all - other than that I saw them at the CEDIA show last year, and they looked good (but in a show environment, on a single-brand stand, it's hard to tell.) One thing you may find, if the CRTs are anything to go by, is that the picture looks slightly "dim" by comparison. This is in part, because the Japanese TV manufacturers, Sony in particular, set the defaults to "high brightness, high colour saturation" so that their pictures stand out on a shelf at Comet... The Loewe defaults are set to reproduce skin tone accurately :-) Oh, and one final thing - it's pronouced "Lur - Vur", assonant with "Per-vert" (sorry, couldn't think of a better word to show the vowel sounds) and NOT "Loo - Vay", despite what the salesdroid in John Lewis in High Wycombe may try to tell you :-) In case you're wondering how I know all this, I'm old enough and "public school enough" to have been an old-fashioned hi-fi enthusiast, but young enough and open-minded enough to have jumped to the multi-channel audio world in the mid-90s :-) Hell, I even had a laserdisk player for a few years, before DVDs came out :-) Mark STONE COLD wrote: > Id not even heard of this brand until you mentioned it. just been on > their website and their tv's look really nice..im seriously > contemplating buying it now!!! > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:12:23 +0100 > > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help buying a LCD TV > > > > If you can find a dealer they might have ld stock round about £500 > as I know > > they were selling them off. > > Regards, > > Daniel > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Harrison > > Sent: 26 September 2007 10:52 > > To: British Ubuntu Talk > > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help buying a LCD TV > > > > Daniel, > > > > I have a 32" Loewe CRT TV... and the picture quality is likewise > amazing. > > > > What are prices on the LCDs? If they're anything like the £300 > > specified, then I'd be very tempted... but I fear not :-( > > > > M. > > > > > > Daniel Lamb wrote: > > > I'm using a 32" Loewe LCD TV, just using the vga input from my > kubuntu pc, > > > the picture quality is amazing, and that’s juts running a 32mb > graphics > > > card, usually im getting a better picture on the tv than on my laptop! > > > > > > Regards, > > > Daniel > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Bagnall > > > Sent: 26 September 2007 09:00 > > > To: British Ubuntu Talk > > > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help buying a LCD TV > > > > > > STONE COLD wrote: > > > > > >> I want to buy a 32" LCD TV . > > >> my budget is £300. ive got my eye on this > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=26610 > > > 0&CatId=958 > > > > > > > > > <http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2661 > > > 00&CatId=958> > > > > > >> > > >> Is this any good? any alternatives? > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > That all looks ok, another one with similar specs is > > > > > > http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Displays/Televisions/32%22/32%22+Hannspree+HD > > > +Xv32+TFT-TV+?productId=27095 > > > > > > I'm using a Digimate LTV-3210h 32" hdtv as my monitor and it works > > > great. Just be warned you'll need a vga cable or HDMI -> DVI > cable. If > > > going for the latter cable option be aware that I couldnt get it > to work > > > correctly under Ubuntu using an NVidia graphics card. VGA cable works > > > fine though. > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > > > > > > > > -- > > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
