No new black TVs anymore?

[efhjr]

My trusty 15-year-old Zenith bit the dust last week, so I went to Circuit City and bought a 32-inch, flat-screen Panasonic jobby. So far it's a great TV and I think the price was good, but it's silver. My Zenith was black, which is a better color for my living room. I did not see a single black TV in the store, either. What gives?

Attention Gorts -- if this post belongs in a different forum, feel free to move it. :righton:.

[AKA]

Weird. Just a few years ago, black TVs were all you could find.

[Mick Jones]

Silver is the new black.

[Joe Nino-Hernes]

I like wood the best! I wish that I could buy a new HDTV in a cabinent that looks like a 1960 Zenith!

[Aquateen]

Pretty much every tv is coming in silver along with dvd players. I don't think we received a single black dvde player this model year at my Circuit.

[Ryan]

My JVC (2001) TV is black. My Pioneer 563 Dvd player (2003) is silver.

[Anthology123]

A very high paid industrial designer decided that black is not a good color for TVs anymore and you will learn to like it.

[MikePh]

It's the "dust factor" from their market research. Dust is not as obvious on the silver...seriously.

[Ryan]

A very high paid industrial designer decided that black is not a good color for TVs anymore and you will learn to like it.

Fred Feinblatt?

[-=Rudy=-]

Ugh...silver is my least favorite color, too. :(

[Evan L]

Huh....I bought a brand new Sharp brand 27 inch TV set last year....must've been before they phased out black.

Evan

[-=Rudy=-]

Silver just looks so.....70's. :hurl: I never liked it the first time around...don't care for it now either. Today's silver to me just looks cheap and plasticky. Black isn't my favorite, but at least it is low key. I like a nice champagne gold, that dark color of NAD (not quite black), and that grey/slightly gold color of the older Harman-Kardon components. Kyocera had a neat color too (sort of a tarnished brass color, I think). I like "different". :)

[Grant]

It's the "dust factor" from their market research. Dust is not as obvious on the silver...seriously.


That makes sense. I live in a very dusty, dry area, and dust and cobwebs will collect overnight!

[easyge]

I always blame Sony. The first two silver products we have sold were the first two "flat" picture tube tv's at 32" and 36" from Sony. This was around 1998. They look great and all, but now I can't give them away. The Plasma, LCD flat, LCD rear projection, DLP rear projection, and standard rear projection CRT sets are selling well. Now everything is silver.

Change is inevitable, though not always for the better.

Evan

[Grant]

I always blame Sony. The first two silver products we have sold were the first two "flat" picture tube tv's at 32" and 36" from Sony. This was around 1998. They look great and all, but now I can't give them away.

Hell, i'll take 'em! :)

[John B Good]

I'm with ninohernes, wood would be waaaay better that this black or silver crap.

Same opinion of audio hardware. (I could stand to see more Bakelite too. These sharp cornered black boxes with tiny buttons are for the bats!)

Just picked up a bright blue Projeckt turnatable yesterday, have to do something to make my world more beautiful :)

[andyinstal]

I do custom electronics residential installation here in Dallas. The reason the TVs are now silver or gray can be attributed partially to Joe Kane and the ISF or Imaging Science Foundation. Some years ago, Joe came up with specs on how a TV image should be set up and also how home theater projection systems should be set up. One of the specs for the TVs was to have the TV in front of a neutral colored wall, and have a light shining on the wall at 10% of the brightness of the TV screen. The neutral color is gray. Any color other than gray affects your perception of the contrast of the picture. A black cabinet on a television affects how the picture looks to you. The gray or silver TV cabinet is neutral and does not affect how you perceive the picture to look.

[rpd]

Silver just looks so.....70's. :hurl: I never liked it the first time around...don't care for it now either. Today's silver to me just looks cheap and plasticky. Black isn't my favorite, but at least it is low key. I like a nice champagne gold, that dark color of NAD (not quite black), and that grey/slightly gold color of the older Harman-Kardon components. Kyocera had a neat color too (sort of a tarnished brass color, I think). I like "different". :)

The NAD color has always been the best....and timeless of course....

[-=Rudy=-]

Anyone want to buy a NAD MR20? :laugh: Great picture on that TV when we bought it, but it was about as reliable as a 70's Jaguar. Folks had it fixed once, then during the last few months it was used, it needed a new picture tube. (It was getting dim.) Last I tried it, it didn't work, and the power supply got toasted. Color? This monitor was black...not the typical dark NAD color of their audio components.

[ubsman]

I'm with ninohernes, wood would be waaaay better that this black or silver crap.

Same opinion of audio hardware. (I could stand to see more Bakelite too. These sharp cornered black boxes with tiny buttons are for the bats!)

Just picked up a bright blue Projeckt turnatable yesterday, have to do something to make my world more beautiful :)
as long as it's veneer, and not a vinyl application

[ubsman]

I do custom electronics residential installation here in Dallas. The reason the TVs are now silver or gray can be attributed partially to Joe Kane and the ISF or Imaging Science Foundation. Some years ago, Joe came up with specs on how a TV image should be set up and also how home theater projection systems should be set up. One of the specs for the TVs was to have the TV in front of a neutral colored wall, and have a light shining on the wall at 10% of the brightness of the TV screen. The neutral color is gray. Any color other than gray affects your perception of the contrast of the picture. A black cabinet on a television affects how the picture looks to you. The gray or silver TV cabinet is neutral and does not affect how you perceive the picture to look.
I only use a tv when it is dark in the room, so don't know how the cabinet color would matter. The Panasonic I have is dark gray.

[peterC]

Hey why settle for crappy black plastic when we can have classy silver plastic!