[OT] HDTV recommendations?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 10:15:38PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
> We ended up getting this one, not in small part because we got a pretty
> amazing deal:
> 
> http://www.samsung.com/us/video/tvs/LN32C450E1DXZA-features
> 
> We found it at The Source, and since my wife works for Bell we got it for
> $365.
> 
> It's not 1080p, and it's only 32", but this is a second TV, for a 'playroom'
> that our kids use primarily. We already have a 42" plasma in the main TV
> room. That is connected to a PS3 that already has Netflix :)

It's the worst possible kind of HDTV you can get.  It's the @#$@#$#@$
768 resolution shit.  Until people stop buying this crap they will keep
making it.

> I guess I lucked out, because it does have the ATSC tuner you mention. It
> will very likely never be hooked up to an antenna, as it is hooked up to the
> computer I just built, so with XBMC it can bring in Youtube as well as the
> WD media server I have. Plus my daughter can apparently use this TV with her
> iPod, though I haven't figured out how to do that yet. Eventually I would
> like to bring in CBC maybe...
> 
> The only thing that pissed me off is that I will have to buy a new cable for
> audio. If you use an HDMI cable from a PC, you have to use a PC audio jack
> to plug into the TV, you cannot use the regular AV audio inputs. Other than
> that I'm not at all unimpressed.

You can get a real 1080p display for that kind of money.

I would NOT call that an amazing deal.

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Len Sorensen
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