I can talk endlessly about the best washing machine, dishwasher and mobile phone to get but regarding TVs these days I havent a clue. After all its been 5 years since we bought the last one and prior to that my dads old TV was 25 years old when we dumped it.!

Our current TV has given up the ghost and we have been advised its not cost effective to repair as likely to be over £150 as its cathode ray. Unfortunately the one we bought from Mercury TV in 2007 in good faith appears to have already been 10 years old at the time of purchase so well obselete now.

We are therefore looking at getting a new one- prefer not too expensive and of a good size but we dont have the facility for a wall mounted one. If anyone has any suggestions it would be helpful. We have already been advised to avoid LG and look for Panasonic preferably in the lower price brackets.

Any advice helpful on make model and supplier!