[mythtv-users] LCD HDTV recommendations (that are Myth friendly)...

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 14:51:46 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Willy Boyd <willyboyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Marc Sherman <msherman at projectile.ca> wrote:
>  >
>  >  >  Another minor issue that often gets overlooked when choosing a tv is the
>  >  >  availability of discrete IR controls for power and input selection. My
>  >  >  current tv has neither, and we're constantly fiddling with our remote to
>  >  >  get things into the right state whenever someone's been using it for
>  >  >  something other than mythtv.
>  >
>  >  Marc, please forgive my ignorance. :)  but what to you mean by
>  >  'discrete IR controls' for power and input?
>  >
>
>  He means a discrete IR signal for each input -- i.e. being able to
>  switch directly to VGA, HDMI, Svideo1, etc etc.  I know because I got
>  an Olevia 42" also lacking this and it utterly sucks.  You have one
>  button/code to cycle through the inputs.  And it doesn't exactly
>  switch inputs very fast.  This was an annoyance even after I got my
>  nice Harmony remote that can do all the thinking for me.  Finally I
>  got an upscaling receiver so everything is going to the HDMI source on
>  the tv now.  Next TV purchase I will be confirming how much control is
>  possible for sure.
>

If you look around the 'net, you can find Olevia discrete input codes.
 AVSForum has them listed (IIRC, the 47" model codes work on the 42"
model).  Powere, OTOH, is a different beast altogether :(


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