Is this a bit naughty???

[vintage-x]

I was on my way into work this morning nice and early and I decided to pop into a local tv shop to get some AA batteries but then This caught my attention so I decided to buy it made me 25 mins late for work because I was sorting out finance on it

I feel a bit gulity now Oh well

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

In marketing speak, you're suffering from cognitive dissonance, which in short means, guilt about spending a lot of dosh. You'll probably spend the next week trying to find good reviews and comments to make you feel better and justify it.

Does look nice though.

 

[Goatboy]

The guilt will soon be replaced by a feeling of shame after watching hi-def porn excessively.

 

[vintage-x]

In marketing speak, you're suffering from cognitive dissonance, which in short means, guilt about spending a lot of dosh. You'll probably spend the next week trying to find good reviews and comments to make you feel better and justify it.

Does look nice though.

Blinkin heck You should be a shrink thats excatly what I did when I got home.
Oh well nuts to the reviews Ive seen it and tested it in the flesh and the only bad thing i found about it was the lack of freeview.

 

[Mr_Sukebe]

Blinkin heck You should be a shrink thats excatly what I did when I got home.

Easier explanation, Marketing was part of my course at Uni. I'm surprised at the lack of Freeview.

 

[FrankJH]

Caught My eye too in ashop then I noticed freeview and lack thereof and my heart sank

At least it has the slightly higher spec panel ( 1366*768 as apposed to 1280*768)

I am looking for a decent freeview HD TV, to be used for widescreen gaming - do you think the 80 pixels or so would be noticable?

 

[no_1_dave]

800:1 contrast ratio.

For a TV isn't that a little low? Very nice all the same though. If I had money i'd be looking for a good HD telly too

 

[Bomag]

The 32LD6600 is not as good as the 32LD7200 and does not have a DVI socket but for £900 it's not a bad LCD TV.

FrankJH

Given that Freeview LCD TVs are more expensive than getting a standalone box and normal LCD and that you will have to get a new box anyway for HD freeview (when it gets going) I don't see any point in limiting your choice to IDTVs

 

[Goatboy]

The 32LD6600 is not as good as the 32LD7200 and does not have a DVI socket

It has an HDMI socket though which can take a DVI signal so hardly losing out there.

 

[Bomag]

Hitachi LCDs do not 'support' PC input via HDMI. If you can get it to work it will be an a 720p picture upscaled to 768 so no 1:1 pixel matching.

 

[Shimmyhill]

Aye why worry about freeview, the inbuilt tuners are allways lousy so get a good external one.

 

[FrankJH]

Never had a problem with my Sammy 26" idTV HD LCD to be honest, even with the inbuilt freeview - which was as good as any external box I have seen. Its the HD panel itself that makes the freeview and and other nd source look bad not the tuner itself.

There arent that many identical models with and without freeview to compare ( HD ones ) as far as i have seen, but for one less box and one less lead attached I think its worth it. You will be in the same boat eitehr way when hd freeview comes out, if you get rid of an external box for nd freeview or not in my opinion

 

[vintage-x]

Its finaly here and its beautiful.



Sorry about the bad quality pic but its all I could get at the time.
My setups consists of the following:
Hitachi 32LD6600 LCD Widescreen TV
Jvc TH-SW8 DVD player + surround
Joytech AV switcher
Pacific VHS player
PS2
Xbox 360
Gamecube (not hooked up).

The screens amazing sooooo much better than my old 28" cheapo widescreen.
Takes a bit of time to tweak the colour settings etc but its worth it.
At the moment Im using my 360 to play dvds as I havent got a component cable for my dvd player to run progressive scan.

 

[zpos]

Yes, but did you actually buy the batteries?!

z

 

[vintage-x]

Yes, but did you actually buy the batteries?!

z

sugar just reminded me forgot the batteries must go buy some tomoz

 

[Kamakazie!]

At least it has the slightly higher spec panel ( 1366*768 as apposed to 1280*768)

I am looking for a decent freeview HD TV, to be used for widescreen gaming - do you think the 80 pixels or so would be noticable?

any of the current samsung panels will do you well. all 1366*768 with just about all the connections you will ever want.
The the R41 and R51 have to be connected to the pc via d-sub (vga) for 1:1 mapping as the dvi/hdmi doesnt support it but not sure about the M51 and M61 which are new...

you can get built in freeview on all of them as far as i know (bd models as opposed to just b) though why not get a good exteral box...

 

[FrankJH]

Is it worth getting an external freeview box, everyone is agreed that the nature of the good quality panel will make freeview look bad anyway, I will be using a dvd recorder on the rgb scart, which leaves a standard scart for anything else - unless i get an rgb switch box just dont see the point of gettting ANOTHER external box, paying for it and using up an extra connector when all this can be built in?

I was actualy meaning apart from Sammy's that you can easily compare

Might actually get a 32" R41 / 51 BD - prefer this design to the M series which to me looks ugly

The only thing that worries me is that the 32" will have bigger pixels adn therefore more noticable, have 900 quid to spend on a replacemtn come tusday or wed, unfortunately in a "metor" store, as been given a card from them from insurance company so cant shop for best price on the web

 

[Corasik]

I wouldnt worry about pixel size on a 32inch TV, as long as you sit far enough back. At 4 Meters, I can watch a projected 50inch image, without any serious 'pixellation' problems.

 

[FrankJH]

Thats why I was mentioning it as I was thinking of using it as a 2nd monitor for my pc