On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 22:42:31 +0100, Owain wrote
(in article ):

Guy King wrote:
There is a fair range of colours emitted from such lamps. They are
not all the same.
The trouble is it's very subjective. You can't take someone else's word
for it, you have to experience that particular bulb yourself, and for
many people the prospect of buying half a dozen different CFLs just to
find one they like doesn't appeal.

Perhaps shops could lend out cases of samples against a deposit, like
some hi-fi shops do with interconnects.

Then we could have magazines like "What Florrie" and "Tube Review"
discussing the photic characteristics of clockwise vs anticlockwise
pig-tail spiral lamps.

Owain


I can see it now. Gold plated contacts with improved spectral response going
for £1000 a pop.