LCD for £1,000

Chronictank · 2 Aug 2007 at 10:38

Sorry just to confirm before i put my money down the SAMSUNG LE40M87BDX is the same as the SAMSUNG LE40M86BD right?
Except the m86 is sold by the dixons and a few other retailers?

sven256 · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:35

Yes they are I have the le46m86 and I can recommend it.

PaulStat · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:40

The Sony KDL40W2000U is starting to appear for around the £980 mark, this set won the What HiFi LCD of the year award for 2006

Chronictank · 2 Aug 2007 at 11:42

PaulStat said:
The Sony KDL40W2000U is starting to appear for around the £980 mark, this set won the What HiFi LCD of the year award for 2006

but can only do 1080p over the HDMI ,
it is forced to 1080i over component and 1360x768 over VGA

which is the selling point for the samsung to me, otherwise i would have gone with the sharp

Metalface Mark · 2 Aug 2007 at 13:35

I just ordered the Sony 40D3000.

its not 1080p, but it does scale down from 1080p. It does have the advatages over the Sony W range, by being 100hz, allowing 24hz signal for HD stuff and giving a much better SD performance level.

Well worth looking at, and around £900 online.

hk3948 · 4 Aug 2007 at 19:31

i am deciding between the exact 4 tellies mentioned by chronic tank further up the thread. guys, i really need your input. the tv is for my mum, who will e using it mostly for sd, dvd and ps3. deciding between the sony 40w2000, tosh 42X3030D and sammy le40m87. been into few highstreet stores but its just useless. theyre complete idiots in there and its not really fair to judge a tvs performance from what you see in there. which tv is likely to do the best job with sd material. any you think of the three would be particularly suitable for my mums needs.

FrankJH · 4 Aug 2007 at 21:31

Well I got My Samsung 40M87 today and its a great tv in my opinion well worth the £900 I paid for it

Chronictank · 4 Aug 2007 at 23:50

I went with the samsung also, sole reason being i have am getting a ps3 and have a 360 so i wanted full res through composite

Hxc · 8 Aug 2007 at 19:09

squiffy said:
Conncecitivity on the Samsung is much better, one extra HDMI port, dedicated component & VGA inputs -Sharp which only supports 720p/1366x768 over component/VGA. VGA definietly supports 1920x1080p, as tested it myself.

Some of the reviews I have seen say the Sammy overscans through VGA at 1080p... does it not then? It's quite a key factor as I plan to be running a HTPC through it, although I may end up using HDMI...

janesssssy · 9 Aug 2007 at 13:51

squiffy said:
M86 and M87 are the same screen, pretty sure M87 isn't 100hz (which is pointless for LCD IMO) PAL is 50hz, NTSC is 60hz. Which M86 displays at native resolution. If it has to upsample 50/60hz to 100hz it means more processing. 100hz processing was always awful on CRT's

M86 screen is glossy, M87 is matt.
happy with my 40" M86, some very minor clouding but only noticeable on a black screen. 1080p from HTPC and oppo works fine. No nead pixels, no buzzing, or banding.

Squiffy - I have a samsung engineer coming to look at my Samsung tomorrow. Same problem as you. Do you not think its fault worthy?