LCD TV's

PiKe · 9 Feb 2006 at 13:59

I believe I'm right in saying Samsung televisions are currently best? How does the image look when running SD signals through them? Do you get the same effect as running a TFT out of native (slighly blurred)? Which connection is best, VGA or Componant?

dannyjo22 · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:08

Depends what size you are looking at before you say samsungs are the best. They are good for the budget but ceratinly not the best 32 incher say.

Nismo · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:09

Samsung arnt the best, but they are one of the most popular.

Speaking from experience with my 23" Samsung, normal SD sources via Scart etc. do look pretty poor, and the effect is similar to what you described, blurring and what not.

PiKe · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:13

So what would you recommend on a budget of 600 quid?

samat2001 · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:16

The 26' Samsung (LE26R41BX) can be had for under £600 - HD ready too.

0gami · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:43

If you spent a little teensy bit more you could get an LG 26LX2R. Its Awesome - especially if you want to use it as a PC Monitor also!

Read more over at this thread...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17520428

pinkaardvark · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:44

No you won't see the picture blured like you do with a TFT panel out of correct res no. What you do tend to get with the HDTV LCD is they typically have a native res of 1368 * 768 so when displaying a SD picture they have to internally upscale the image to fill the screen. This process can add artifacts that aren't there in the original source material.
This can often be compounded by the fact that people buy HDTV's that are much bigger than there old crts and as such any errors are magnified, they also then sit as close to these bigger screens as they did with the old ones, if you have ever watched a divx you'll know up close or zoomed the picture can look poor but stand away from the screen and it improves. This is true of badly scaled imaged also.

Finally if you pause something like sky digital even on a normal crt you will see that it is a pixelly mess. On a bigger tv lcd or not this is amplified greatly.

dirtydog · 9 Feb 2006 at 14:51

Can I just ask a noob question about LCD TVs.. why don't they come with a native resolution which is one of the HDTV standards, ie. 1280x720 or 1920x1080? So that no scaling is required when displaying HD content?

Boogle · 9 Feb 2006 at 15:04

dirtydog said:
Can I just ask a noob question about LCD TVs.. why don't they come with a native resolution which is one of the HDTV standards, ie. 1280x720 or 1920x1080? So that no scaling is required when displaying HD content?

$$

pinkaardvark · 9 Feb 2006 at 15:14

Boogle said:
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Some do come with a 1280 x 720 res. But I think a lot prefer to use a higher res so it's more of use for HTPC connection also.

PiKe · 10 Feb 2006 at 15:37

0gami said:
If you spent a little teensy bit more you could get an LG 26LX2R. Its Awesome - especially if you want to use it as a PC Monitor also!

Read more over at this thread...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17520428

I've found out that there's a new version of the LG 26LX2R coming out next month with an integrated freeview tuner.

0gami · 10 Feb 2006 at 15:51

Which probably means the 26LX2R will come down in price

gord · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:23

0gami said:
Which probably means the 26LX2R will come down in price

SHAWEEET... thats when i was gonna buy mine

NokkonWud · 11 Feb 2006 at 00:31

PiKe said:
I believe I'm right in saying Samsung televisions are currently best? How does the image look when running SD signals through them? Do you get the same effect as running a TFT out of native (slighly blurred)? Which connection is best, VGA or Componant?

Certainly not the best. They are the top of the bargains I would say. Popular because they have a deal with Microsoft.

Sony, Pioneer and Panasonic are the best, preferably the latter 2.