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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 7:13 AM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">And since I'm trying to buy a 26" TV specifically to use as a monitor (it's for my mother whose eyesight isn't what it was), I'm finding it incredibly annoying that the manufacturers give no information at all on what resolutions are supported - 1280x768 on a 1366x768 panel looks horrible.<br>
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<div>Why would you by a TV for use as a monitor? You can get a 26" monitor for much less than a 26" TV (at least at the Best Buy I was in last weekend in central NY), and aviod the trouble with the "HD stuff" in general. </div>
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