Thinking of swapping TV-will RGB work?

[Weinberg]

Ok I bought a Panasonic TXPS12 at the beginning of December and as nice as it is, it has a few problems with TV/games. I also paid way too much for it, as I paid ?599 from Currys and I could have got it much cheaper online.
I've found a new TV, the Samsung WS32Z046VS.


This is better as:
1) It's ?514.99 including a cabinet, compared to ?599.
2) It's 32" compared to 28" and therefore very cheap for such a big tv
3) It has virtual dolby compared to Nicam
4) It has 100hz/pure flatscreen like my Panasonic

So I can't see anything wrong with it. Can anyone comment on it? I read a Hifi Choice review and they loved it. It also looks nice.

I want to know also, if the TV will work with my Panasonic Q with RGB. Also my Sky box has RGB, and I know that TV's usually support RGB (if they do) with not all of their scart sockets. No site seems to say if it supports RGB, and which of the scart sockets do. Can someone help me out? If my Q doesn't work with it's RGB cable I simply can't buy it.

(edit) I've found Amazon say "NTSC Playback Via SCART". Does this mean anything? And I think I made up the fact there are 2 scart sockets as I can't find anywhere saying how many there are...

[fuzzybee]

Doing a quick search i cannot find anything on the tv you specify, however i am %99.9 sure one of the scarts will be RGB capable which means your Panasonic Q will work with no problems. The other scart will be for composite scart and s-video, however from personal experience and from what i have seen if i ever returned to CRT televisions(i own a plasma) i would only ever buy Toshiba.
I will give you a piece of advice which you simply must take, you simply cannot buy a TV or any other AV product simply from a picture, you must demo it or atleast take a look at it in the flesh(or plastic)
Regarding the ntsc playback by scart comment this can mean two things, the RGB input will take any signal as RGB is not specific to any region(as long as the signal output by the console or visual device is RGB)
Or the second scart will take a composite or s-video ntsc signal, but as stated before test before you buy. If you cannot find it anywhere to take a demo of it then do not buy it, buy another tv you can demo

[Salsa Party Animal]

I can't understand why TV doesn't have all scart socket to support RGB as Standard. It will be a lot easier to have a TV with 3 scart socket so you can use one for Sky and 2 for console / DVD Player.

[Weinberg]

Thanks for the replies. I will try to look at one in the 'flesh'/plastic tomorrow. However unlike my Panasonic, when I spent a while searching for it I couldn't find any bad reviews-only good ones. My Panasonic however had loads of posts about messed up geometry which simply isn't good enough.

[fuzzybee]

Legendary

It's simply not logical for tv manufacturers to wire all the scarts for RGB, %99 of us still use vcr's which only output composite scart so that would be a RGB scart wasted. Some people also use s-video via scart so that means a scart needs to be composite/s-video compatible and a scart input cannot be RGB and s-video it's either composite-RGB or composite-s-video.
Things are getting better though and two RGB enabled scart inputs are quickly becoming the norm. A vast amount of 16:9 CRT's have problems with geometry even some high end sets, if you want it perfect you need to get a big paper round and save up for a LCD or plasma

[DJ Sack]

Dont forget 100hz tellys do not like light gun games!

[fuzzybee]

Dont forget 100hz tellys do not like light gun games!

That was the case, but the ps2 and xbox both have 100hz compatable light guns available for the limited software available for them.