Samsung R87 owners

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What do you think of this LCD?
Is it possible to get 1:1 pixel mapping? Have you outputted 1366x768 or 1360x768 from your videocard? If the latter does the TV stretch?

I'm sending it 720p from oppo 981 HD, does this mean the Samsung will still scale 1280x720 to 1366x768?

Is the backlight even? What are the black levels like? Adjustable backlight? Does the backlight hum?
 
I've just setup my 40" R87(30 mins ago), it's bloody huge lol

I can only answer your last question as i've only used my NTL/Virgin cable so far.

Picture takes a bit of tweaking to get rid of the blurryness(sp)
but i've almost got it spot on.

The backlight can be adjusted from 1-10 default is 7

There is no hum.
 
Depends if you can get freeview in your area, if you can you should be alright with picking it up on a normal aerial. You just need it to automatically tune the channels in the menu.
 
I've read its only cosmetic difference.

I've got an 87 32".

It is quite literally amazing.

I'm running it at 1360x768 and it auto fits the whole screen, so if 720p really is 1366x768 then its obviously not quite 1:1 via hdmi, but I'm sure there is some way to change this on the tv or some graphics cards.
 
Using HDMI 2 or VGA it does 1:1 pixel mapping.
Basically it does 1360x768 so it blanks out 3 pixels each side of your screen so it is perfect 1:1 :)

Edit: Yes, this means that it is 768p, it will stretch (or something) 720p to fit into 768p
 
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no_1_dave said:
Using HDMI 2 or VGA it does 1:1 pixel mapping.
Basically it does 1360x768 so it blanks out 3 pixels each side of your screen so it is perfect 1:1 :)

Edit: Yes, this means that it is 768p, it will stretch (or something) 720p to fit into 768p
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actually your edit is wrong, you were initially right.

The width does indeed cut 3 from each side to maintain 1:1 ratio.
 
Maniac618 said:
actually your edit is wrong, you were initially right.

The width does indeed cut 3 from each side to maintain 1:1 ratio.
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Thats what I meant in the edit too, I was just explaining that if you watch a 720p source it will still be 1:1 pixel mapped to 768p (1360x768) so it actually stretches a 720p image to 768p ;)
 
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