[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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