<br>I've got a Samsung 1080i tv, that i bought 3 years ago with 1366x768. It's a plasma. I find it working pretty good and works great.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Thomas Milne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbuL8BFgmvp+Ig@public.gmane.orgoo.ca" target="_blank">lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><div></div><div>On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:12:22PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:<br>
> Anyone have some recommendations for a mid-sized HDTV? I'm looking for about<br>
> a 32" at the smallest, preferably 1080p and also built in media/web browsing<br>
> would be nice. Looking at Red Flag Deals, but if anyone has any cautions or<br>
> otherwise, glad to hear it :)<br>
<br>
</div></div>Avoid 1366x768 displays. That's just wrong. 1280x720 is OK (if such<br>
even seemed to exist anymore), but 1920x1080 really is a lot nicer.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>I haven't noticed any problems so far with the resolution. Videos all play at the correct aspect, and the computer desktop displays perfectly, without stretching or distortion. I was wondering about the discrepancy, though. It does seem to be arbitrary the way companies play with these standards.</div>
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My parents bought a cheap 32" Insignia. It has a few flaws for sure.<br>
It looks good and works, but a few things I had never thought would be<br>
relevant have become rather annoying.<br>
<br>
The selection of input is done by hitting 'input' then scrolling through<br>
an onscreen menu and hitting 'enter'. This makes such a TV really<br>
annoying to use with a universal remote such as the Harmony, since you<br>
have to _look_ at the TV to know what the current input is in order to<br>
know how to get to another input. That's really stupid. It's also too<br>
many button presses.<br>
<br>
The power button remote code is unfortunately 'toggle power state'.<br>
There is no code for power on and power off. This too makes life for the<br>
harmony a pain. It is easy to get out of sync and have to step through<br>
the 'help' mode to fix the setting on one of the devices to get things<br>
back in sync. This too would have been trivial to implement.<br>
<br>
It has no clue that certain resolutions should have certain aspect<br>
ratios unfortunately. So you have to always manually switch between<br>
wide and normal depending on HD versus SD contents. What a pain.<br>
Why can't it be as smart as mythtv and go '720 or 640 x 480 means normal<br>
by default, and 1920x1080 and 1280x720 means wide by default'. How hard<br>
would that have been to implement?<br>
<br>
It does have a lovely display, looks good, is 1920x1080, but man the UI<br>
design and behaviour is awful.<br>
<br>
Compared to their old Sony CRT that this replaced, I can almost see<br>
why Sonys cost more now. Apparently they actually think when designing<br>
things. This just can't be right.<br>
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