Finally ordered our first LCD TV

DarkShadow · 15 Jun 2006 at 13:17

Just been off the phone to JL and the following is due for delivery on Monday:

Toshiba 37WLT66 With 5 Years Warranty
Toshiba DVD Recorder with 2 years warranty

I'll now get round to ordering a mounting toshiba stand:

Once the mini mac's hooked everything should be sorted :supercool:

In the mean time I'll be job hunting to contribute towards it, as the rents have paid for everything so far :\

Roll on Monday :cool:

Peg · 15 Jun 2006 at 14:01

Let us know how you get on with it. I hope it all works out fine with the MAC.

pinkaardvark · 15 Jun 2006 at 15:29

Generous parents :eek:

MichaelHo · 15 Jun 2006 at 23:01

you said you're connecting the mac to it, so you're going to use it as a monitor for your mac?

Kol · 15 Jun 2006 at 23:16

MichaelHo said:
you said you're connecting the mac to it, so you're going to use it as a monitor for your mac?

I think he's going to use the mac as a HTPC.

One More Solo · 15 Jun 2006 at 23:46

We just ordered the same TV, should be here on Monday too! Ours is from the rainforest place though.

MichaelHo · 16 Jun 2006 at 09:56

Mikol said:
I think he's going to use the mac as a HTPC.

ah right.
thanks.

DarkShadow · 16 Jun 2006 at 11:41

Mikol said:
I think he's going to use the mac as a HTPC.

Yes, along with the mild web browsing.

Bill101 · 16 Jun 2006 at 13:15

you know that yhey do not do 1:1 pixel maping?
edit
or maybe it does via DVI
http://www.avforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=333378

DarkShadow · 17 Jun 2006 at 23:38

Hi, People over at AV are reporting to get 1:1 pixel mapping

One More Solo · 18 Jun 2006 at 14:39

dark_shadow said:
Hi, People over at AV are reporting to get 1:1 pixel mapping

How exactly do you get it then?

emetic · 18 Jun 2006 at 18:07

I had a play with mine using VGA input, 1366 x 768 res and 85 hrtz refresh looked pretty much like 1:1 but i didn't test to much, just got on with watching a film.

DarkShadow · 19 Jun 2006 at 12:32

One More Solo said:
How exactly do you get it then?

I'll let you know when it arrives.

Snow-Munki · 19 Jun 2006 at 13:25

BeaumonT said:
I had a play with mine using VGA input, 1366 x 768 res and 85 hrtz refresh looked pretty much like 1:1 but i didn't test to much, just got on with watching a film.

http://www.eirikso.com/2006/04/06/perfect-adjustment-of-your-lcd/

test if you got true 1:1 mapping.

One More Solo · 19 Jun 2006 at 22:20

Will the quality over VGA at 1:1 resolution be decent quality? My experience with connecting PCs to TVs has so far been pretty uninspiring. Icons are hard to read etc.

DarkShadow · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:12

I phoned 5 E-tailers and everyone is out of stock with the stands

I was up Bradford earlier and over at Empire Direct and even they were out of stock!

TV's due tomorrow, Guess I'll have to place an order for the stand and wait 1-2 weeks.

Pfffffffffffffft!

Eliot · 20 Jun 2006 at 01:00

One More Solo said:
Will the quality over VGA at 1:1 resolution be decent quality? My experience with connecting PCs to TVs has so far been pretty uninspiring. Icons are hard to read etc.

theres noting wrong with vga

havegomac · 20 Jun 2006 at 09:13

you can order the stand online direct from Toshiba.

apparently it's 7 day delivery ...

DarkShadow · 20 Jun 2006 at 09:14

It's here . . First Impressions - It's Huge!

Gonna go fire her up along with the mini mac. I've got DVI > VGA and also DVI > HDMI

Rwac · 20 Jun 2006 at 09:45

Prompt JL Delivery :cool:

Pictures up once it's sorted i think!