[mythtv-users] Which TFT to get?

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Fri Mar 17 20:44:23 UTC 2006


On Mar 17, 2006, at 12:58 PM, Ben Edwards (lists) wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 12:19 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
>
> Was thinking more of a 20-25" TFT, preferably under £400 (due to some
> strange maths/logic the us dollar/UK sterling cost of things is often
> very smiler!). I have also noticed the ones with tuners (i.e. TFT TVs)
> are a LOT more expensive and often have artifacts.  I have a 20"  
> Samsung
> SyncMaster which I got for around £200 and its has a better picture  
> than
> 17" LCD Tvs which are over twice the price.
>

Sorry, I keep thinking everyone lives in the USA, us Americans are  
very bad at that. I read a couple of Linux mags from the UK and I've  
noticed that prices there seem to be outrageous by US standards.

Funny how 20 years ago they would remove the expensive RF and IF  
components from a TV set, and replace them with a 75-cent BNC jack to  
create a "monitor". Somehow this seemed to increase the price by 50%.

Now they add a $20 tuner to a "monitor" and increase the price by  
$100 - $200.

I've noticed that there is not a direct correlation between price and  
quality, and you do seem to pay a lot for a "name". That might be  
important if you have a problem and need service, but it's worth  
nothing if the unit works OK.

The specs can be jiggled to be anything you want (response time to  
what? black to white to black?, gray to gray ? Black to white ? Off  
to off ?). I was very leery of buying a monitor sight unseen but it  
has worked out OK.

The best looking 20" 16:9 LCD screen I have seen is the one on my  
iMac, and with the Intel machines out now you might be able to pick  
up a G5 refurb unit cheap enough to be worth it for the screen :-)


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