[OT] HDTV recommendations?

[Dave Germiquet]

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.

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Thomas Milne <thomas.bruce.milne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
> lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:12:22PM -0400, Thomas Milne wrote:
>> > Anyone have some recommendations for a mid-sized HDTV? I'm looking for
>> about
>> > a 32" at the smallest, preferably 1080p and also built in media/web
>> browsing
>> > would be nice. Looking at Red Flag Deals, but if anyone has any cautions
>> or
>> > otherwise, glad to hear it :)
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>> Avoid 1366x768 displays.  That's just wrong.  1280x720 is OK (if such
>> even seemed to exist anymore), but 1920x1080 really is a lot nicer.
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> 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.
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>> My parents bought a cheap 32" Insignia.  It has a few flaws for sure.
>> It looks good and works, but a few things I had never thought would be
>> relevant have become rather annoying.
>>
>> The selection of input is done by hitting 'input' then scrolling through
>> an onscreen menu and hitting 'enter'.  This makes such a TV really
>> annoying to use with a universal remote such as the Harmony, since you
>> have to _look_ at the TV to know what the current input is in order to
>> know how to get to another input.  That's really stupid.  It's also too
>> many button presses.
>>
>> The power button remote code is unfortunately 'toggle power state'.
>> There is no code for power on and power off.  This too makes life for the
>> harmony a pain.  It is easy to get out of sync and have to step through
>> the 'help' mode to fix the setting on one of the devices to get things
>> back in sync.  This too would have been trivial to implement.
>>
>> It has no clue that certain resolutions should have certain aspect
>> ratios unfortunately.  So you have to always manually switch between
>> wide and normal depending on HD versus SD contents.  What a pain.
>> Why can't it be as smart as mythtv and go '720 or 640 x 480 means normal
>> by default, and 1920x1080 and 1280x720 means wide by default'.  How hard
>> would that have been to implement?
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>> It does have a lovely display, looks good, is 1920x1080, but man the UI
>> design and behaviour is awful.
>>
>> Compared to their old Sony CRT that this replaced, I can almost see
>> why Sonys cost more now.  Apparently they actually think when designing
>> things.  This just can't be right.
>>
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> Thomas Milne
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