What LCD TV

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I am coming into some money next month, and have a budget of around £1500 quid for a LCD TV. Looking for the following

32" HD ready, and preferable black casing.

What would you recommend. I am siding towards a LG, because I think they offer good value with outstanding picture quality.

Cheers
 
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What are you planning on using it for? What are you going to be connecting to it device wise and which connections do you want to use?

I'm going for an LG 32LX2R, mainly because it's far superior for HD picture and PC use than any other LCD panel i have seen in action. It also supports true 1:1 pixel mapping, and has great blacks (Surprising how important a true black is rather than a very deep dark blue!). For between 800-900 you really can't go wrong, and compared to the Sammys they blow them away.
 
Another LG32LX2R owner here. Do 90% of my viewing through my HTPC connected via DVI. HD output is better than any other 32" I looked at, although some other TV's give you a better picture when viewing SD/cable/sky stuff.
 
Bionic Man said:
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What about the Hitachi 7200 32" lcd , got some very good reviews
also the Toshiba 32Wlt58 has 2 x HDMI


These are the 2 I'm looking at

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Aye both good TV's from what I have read. I have never seen them in action though.

It depends on what you plan on connecting the TV to as to what you should choose. What do you want it for?

Do the Toshiba and Hitatchi sets offer PC connectivity over the HDMI ports? And if so do they support 1:1 pixel mapping over them too? If not then you would have to use the VGA port to connect them to a PC/HTPC. These are all things you need to bare in mind when choosing an LCD. Work out what you want to connect it to and make a decision based on that. :)
 
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Windle said:
What are you planning on using it for? What are you going to be connecting to it device wise and which connections do you want to use?

I'm going for an LG 32LX2R, mainly because it's far superior for HD picture and PC use than any other LCD panel i have seen in action. It also supports true 1:1 pixel mapping, and has great blacks (Surprising how important a true black is rather than a very deep dark blue!). For between 800-900 you really can't go wrong, and compared to the Sammys they blow them away.
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The man is right, to recommend we need to know what your sources/uses are going to be.

Windle hows the overscan on your display, how much do you loose left/right/top/bottom. I assume you have no need for underscan with 1:1 of course but would be interested if you could possibly try a 1280x720 picture or video ran at native and then with 1280x720 output via DVI or HDMI and compare it to your native, i assume your running VGA?

LG%20HDTV%20Demo%20Capture.JPG

Heres what i mean thats a 1080i resized capture but anything from the outside of the white box may not be visible due to overscan compensation.
Custom resolutions with underscan enabled can let you view all of the image losing none of the video content at all, kinda like how some people tweaked their CRTs via service menus.

Sorry if this seems to be sidetracking the thread but we may be able to discover how this 1:1 compares with HDTV sources to "underscan enabled resolutions" and if it suffers from overscan too. Its also worth pointing out that 1:1 is more important regards text, for example many panels are 1366x768 yet wont allow 1:1 but then again 720p and 1080i are the formats so 1:1 with 1366x768 isnt as much of an advantage with HD video as may seem even though its a single pass scaling compared to a typical two pass scaling for most PCs-HDTVs.

Some of the findings here may help others if you or anyone is willing to participate, call it geek fun...

* If PC connection is required please be carefull not all HDTVs work well with PCs, many only offer 1024x768 4:3, you have been warned.
 
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Windle said:
I'm going for an LG 32LX2R, mainly because it's far superior for HD picture and PC use than any other LCD panel i have seen in action. It also supports true 1:1 pixel mapping, and has great blacks (Surprising how important a true black is rather than a very deep dark blue!). For between 800-900 you really can't go wrong, and compared to the Sammys they blow them away.
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Sammys seem to be doing quite well nonetheless...

http://www.eisa-awards.org/history/2005-2006/video.html
 
GordyR

The Hitachi 32LD7200 has 1:1 mapping over DVI but only at 60hz. Having got the Hitachi and seen the LG the blacks on the LG were not quite as good. TBH for using MCE the best setting is via VGA at 50hz. However, if you want to use the desktop or use a web browser then 1:1 is vital.
 
Just noticed he hasnt even got the LG yet, darn.

Well for those interested heres a LG thread
Might help
Owner didnt state it had great blacks though.

Anything text based will show a small benifit with 1:1 including the internet.
If you walked into a store and seen a selection of HDTVs all showing the same 720p content you couldnt tell the few if any what was 1:1
 
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Whats the best 32" LCD for connecting Sky to? I have heard varying views including some that say watching Sky through LCD is far worse than through a CRT.
 
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