[OT] HDTV recommendations?

[Thomas Milne]

That's probably the same TV my wife bought for me when I turned 40.

Compared to what we had before, yeah, it's pretty good. :)

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

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> 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 :)
>>>
>>> Avoid 1366x768 displays.  That's just wrong.  1280x720 is OK (if such
>>> even seemed to exist anymore), but 1920x1080 really is a lot nicer.
>>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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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