LCD/Plasma/CRT/DLP - questions

[amorenod]

Aaaah, the smell of new devices, only beated by a new car smell

[Dazzla]

Damnit, everyone's getting one Clearly I'm gonna have to pick one up now!

[recipher]

Aaaah, the smell of new devices, only beated by a new car smell

Which has been scientifically proven to be carcinogenic!

[amorenod]

[womblingfree]

Right, looking for a 26" HDTV. After reading this good things have been said about the LG, which I presume is the 26LX2R.

Before that I was thinking of the Panasonic TX26LXD52.

I can't imagine an LG product being better than a Panasonic one and as they seem to be more or less the sam price, think I'll go Panasonic.

Unless anyone can change my mind or recommend a better one?

[PeteJ]

Sweet

Even the box rocks, don't you just love the way it comes apart?

[recipher]

Xbox 360, scientifically proven to drive the sales of HDTVs.

Can you imagine how difficult it'll be to get hold of a decent, affordable HDTV when the PS3 is out (2007) ? SkyHD will drive sales too I would imagine. And then there's blu-ray/hddvd.

[Rossco]

This TV is just immense!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe I have this!!!

Pete, see when you set it all up. And you were autotuning or whatever, did you ever notice the backlight a wee bit brighter, then go darker and stay darker?

Its still bright and perfect but it looks better when its brighter for the split second. You noticed what I mean?



Gonna try HL2 right now then I'm away to get my unit, and I'll port some proper pics and impressions after its all set up!

[bungle]

Does anyone know if the a G4 powerbook (12inch in this case) will output a 1360*760 resolution so that I'd get a (pretty much) full screen display.

On apple's website it says the graphics card does.....but for some reason I'm sceptical. Can anyone confirm this?

[andrewfee]

Does anyone know if the a G4 powerbook (12inch in this case) will output a 1360*760 resolution so that I'd get a (pretty much) full screen display.

On apple's website it says the graphics card does.....but for some reason I'm sceptical. Can anyone confirm this?

My 17" automatically detected all available resolutions, I don't see why a 12" wouldn't. (only the "consumer" line are limited to 1024x768 mirrored output)

There is a small, cheap app called "DisplayConfig X" that will let you add custom resolutions if it is not detected, or you want to send something else.

[Rushy]

I've read far far to many threads on what HD LCD set I should buy and I think I've finally managed to at least narrow down my options to a shortlist:

Panasonic TX-32LXD52

LG 32LX2R

Toshiba 32WLT58

All seems to have some pros and cons, but even then its difficult to decide unless you've had each set in your home for a week each. Does anyone have direct experience of comparisons between these sets? Or if you own a particular set from the above and think its amazing convince me how good it is (One thing though, SD images are still important to me whether its via terrestrial/Freeview/Sky).

[themanwithapc]

Is the backlight adjustable on these LG sets?

[amorenod]

Yes, but deep in service menu. As default, it has a light sensor, like the Samsung.

[John Beaulieu]

on the Tosh - SD images via freeview are superb, via the normal arial they are good but nothing special. After a week I have taken to only watching tv via the digital channels, I only use analogue so that I can quick-scroll to the component channel

[HaHaUK]

n00b question about teletext:

Will I be able to view standard teletext on the digital channels, or does it have to be the special 'Press Red' information stuff?