Samsung LE26R72BX - £600

Fantastic.

Thank you very much for your help. My AS level results come out tomorrow; if they're good I'll most likely be ordering it. If they're really good my parents said they'd upgrade to the 32"" version. Although I was thinking erm wtf I can't go back in time and work harder so that's a bit stupid :D
 
Well I've come to an agreement with the parents and we're ordering the 32"" version tomorrow. Looks like I took Raider's advice after all :D

I went into Currys and the difference between the 26"" and 32"" was enormous. The 26 one really did look tiny when sat next to the 32 one. The design is sex.

I think the price we're paying is £830 which includes 3 years warranty. (rather than the 1)
 
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Ordered. Going to France for a week so they are deliverying it on the Tuesday. (as bank holiday is on Mon)

I had another look at it in JL in Bluewater and it's so nice.
 
Unfortunately as it turns out we opted for the 26"" one as EDUK gave us a fantastic deal with a few years free warranty. I also thought the quality on the 26"" one was slightly sharper. Hell though, yes I would have preferred the 32"" version but I'm grateful my parents are prepared to dish out £600 on this anyway.
 
Tommy B said:
Unfortunately as it turns out we opted for the 26"" one as EDUK gave us a fantastic deal with a few years free warranty. I also thought the quality on the 26"" one was slightly sharper. Hell though, yes I would have preferred the 32"" version but I'm grateful my parents are prepared to dish out £600 on this anyway.
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Still an awesome screen! Benefit of a 26" screen is that you can sit pretty close to play games without your eyes going funny. I tried to use my 32" LCD on the desk, and at 3 ft it's quite overwhelming ;)
 
Raider said:
Still an awesome screen! Benefit of a 26" screen is that you can sit pretty close to play games without your eyes going funny. I tried to use my 32" LCD on the desk, and at 3 ft it's quite overwhelming ;)
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And I'm def better off using VGA and not Component outputs from the GFX card?

Can you reccomend a DVD player that works well with this screen? Or will my PC actually do a better job of up-scaling DVDs and outputting them via VGA?
 
No graphics card has component output.. I assume you mean composite. Which is absolute rubbish.

VGA to VGA is the best option for this screen. Make sure you run the correct resolution though. Something around 1360x768 should do the trick! You'll know when you have the correct resolution as it'll be very crispy :D

DVD wise.. a decent upscaling DVD player is £200 upwards. Running software on the PC (I use TheaterTek together with FFDShow), gives great results though.
 
Raider said:
No graphics card has component output.. I assume you mean composite. Which is absolute rubbish.

VGA to VGA is the best option for this screen. Make sure you run the correct resolution though. Something around 1360x768 should do the trick! You'll know when you have the correct resolution as it'll be very crispy :D

DVD wise.. a decent upscaling DVD player is £200 upwards. Running software on the PC (I use TheaterTek together with FFDShow), gives great results though.
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How does that differ to running say Power DVD at a resolution of 1360x768? Surely it's doing the same thing?

I'm not trying to prove you wrong, but the X1900XT has "YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays" :D - Not directly though, the card itself has two DVI outputs and a strange S-VID looking thing which splits off to the component leads.
 
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Tommy B said:
How does that differ to running say Power DVD at a resolution of 1360x768? Surely it's doing the same thing?

I'm not trying to prove you wrong, but the X1900XT has "YPrPb component output for direct drive of HDTV displays" :D - Not directly though, the card itself has two DVI outputs and a strange S-VID looking thing which splits off to the component leads.
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Ok my mistake, that does sounds like component. But personally I'd go the VGA route, less conversion involved!

Just running PowerDVD at 1360x768 will not do the trick. You need to use special alogrithms to interpolate and sharpen the image. And that's what FFDShow uses. If you do a search on Google, AVForums etc.. there's plenty of info out there!
 
You'll need to..

Use a Software DVD player that'll integrated with FFDSHOW filters. Power DVD won't do this. Theatretek will.

Set your desktop rez to LCD panel native. You can either send non-native ie 1360x768 but make sure the panel isn't stretching (ie the LG) or use Powerstrip to create a custom rez.

Install DVD player and FFDSHOW. Enable resize and aspect mode, enter in your native panel rez in the box. Click OSD. Open TT and select FFDSHOW from the filters.

When you playback a AVI file in Media Player/media centre green text should appear like this

input : 480 x 320
output : 1366 x 768

It should also appear when playing back a Mpeg-II DVD disc also.

That shows FFDSHOW is working and scaling. Different scaling options effect picture quality, ie Lancos, Bicubic. Mess around with them. Lancos with 2 taps seem ok.
 
Does it support dual displays?

My primary display will be 1280x1024 and my secondary would be the TV at 1366*720 (or whatever it is)

Also, do any of the decent games (HL2, COD2 etc) support direct 1366x720 resolution?

Thanks for the info.
 
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I thought I'd offer a different slant on this Sammy thread.

I've been iffing and arring over this for months and finally decided to buy the LE26R7(built in freeview) for £600 and the actual unit is beautiful. Sadly as I'm using a 6800 Ultra with dual DVI I had to purchase a DVi-VGA cable and I must say that windows looked absolutely CRAP, compared to my mates 26LX2R it looked horrible, the resolution looked almost blurry and washed out with very poor colours, I highly doubt it was the lead as it was very expensive and purchased from a decent TV/HIFI appliances store.

It also had a dead pixel so is being RMA'd later this week and I will be looking for a different model, I had my heart set on this TV but was left abolsutely gutted by it. I'll likely go for something DVI suited like the LG which is just as pretty and great value.

Just thought you may like that alternative point of view to the Sammy as I simply can't relate to all the good things being said about it right now.
 
Matt Van Dam said:
I thought I'd offer a different slant on this Sammy thread.

I've been iffing and arring over this for months and finally decided to buy the LE26R7(built in freeview) for £600 and the actual unit is beautiful. Sadly as I'm using a 6800 Ultra with dual DVI I had to purchase a DVi-VGA cable and I must say that windows looked absolutely CRAP, compared to my mates 26LX2R it looked horrible, the resolution looked almost blurry and washed out with very poor colours, I highly doubt it was the lead as it was very expensive and purchased from a decent TV/HIFI appliances store.

It also had a dead pixel so is being RMA'd later this week and I will be looking for a different model, I had my heart set on this TV but was left abolsutely gutted by it. I'll likely go for something DVI suited like the LG which is just as pretty and great value.

Just thought you may like that alternative point of view to the Sammy as I simply can't relate to all the good things being said about it right now.
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That is worrying considering I will have to use a DVI>VGA adaptor. I seriously hope that the problem is with your graphics card and not the TV. Fortunately I have ordered it from an outstanding company and they said they will replace it if I'm unsatisfied. They also chucked in 2 free years warranty as I've ordered from them several times before.
 
Matt Van Dam said:
I thought I'd offer a different slant on this Sammy thread.

I've been iffing and arring over this for months and finally decided to buy the LE26R7(built in freeview) for £600 and the actual unit is beautiful. Sadly as I'm using a 6800 Ultra with dual DVI I had to purchase a DVi-VGA cable and I must say that windows looked absolutely CRAP, compared to my mates 26LX2R it looked horrible, the resolution looked almost blurry and washed out with very poor colours, I highly doubt it was the lead as it was very expensive and purchased from a decent TV/HIFI appliances store.

It also had a dead pixel so is being RMA'd later this week and I will be looking for a different model, I had my heart set on this TV but was left abolsutely gutted by it. I'll likely go for something DVI suited like the LG which is just as pretty and great value.

Just thought you may like that alternative point of view to the Sammy as I simply can't relate to all the good things being said about it right now.
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what resolution did you have the PC screen set to ?
 
Matt Van Dam said:
I tried a range of Resolutions but the best results were at 1360x768 but it still looked awful
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same rez as me.
im connected vga to vga though.
tried different graphics drivers ect?
seems a strange problem as mine looks crystal.....
 
Just using the very lastest Nvidia drivers, i certainly hope its not the wire i was using as that would suck, i loved the unit but i cudnt live with dead pixel/poor res
 
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