[OT] HDTV recommendations?

[Dave Germiquet]

However, for all you guys getting a new plasma, Lennart's right they do get
burn in if you have the options set to the extreme.

So if your playing games or watching something with a static image (like a
logo at the bottom) it'll burn in if your using it at High contrast.

First thing you do when you buy the tv, lower the contrast to around 60,
raise the brightness :)

You can always change the contrast higher for movies and other tv shows that
don't have static images.


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

>
> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Lennart Sorensen <
>> lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>>> 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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