[mythtv-users] New 50" Plasma, setting Myth for it?

[Simon Hobson]

David Brodbeck wrote:

>>Josh White wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>But they have ridiculously high resolutions - 40% more than on a 
>>26" TV. The reason I'm specifically looking at TVs and not monitors 
>>is so that I can get a large display & relatively low resolution 
>>without all the artifacts that result from running an LCD panel at 
>>other than it's native resolution.
>
>In my experience, the rescaling on most monitors works pretty well 
>if you can use a horizontal resolution that divides evenly into the 
>panel resolution.  1024x768 looks pretty decent on my 2048x1024 
>monitor, but 800x600 has really obvious scaling artifacts.

But then you need to get a monitor that's even higher res. Taking 
Josh's suggestion I looked on Best Buy's website. The monitors 24" 
and up are all 1920x1080 - so you'd only get 960x540 if you use 
exactly 2:1 ratio between image and display pixels ! Well there is 
the Apple 30" at 2560x1600 (or 1280x800 at 2:1) - but that's not 
"much less than a 26" TV", or even "much less than" a 32" TV.

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