Oh. I appear to be HD.

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So we picked up our Toshiba 32WLT66 today, and I'm pretty pleased with it.

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Although we haven't stuck anything HD in it yet (...because we don't have anything HD to plug into it) the overall quality is still a great improvement from the CRT crap we had before. Just watching sky is pretty nice, using an 8 year old box and scart lead, so I'm looking forward to watching something decent on it.

We bought it from Currys, and managed to save £160 on it just by walking out of the store, buying it on their site, and then walking back in to pick one up. No delivery - we picked it up in the same store we'd just been looking at them in. £639 isn't the best price on the 'net, but it's a hell of a lot better than £800.

Real picture? This is the best I can get at the moment: (black tv, black stand, dark night, halogen lights pointing the wrong way...)


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But yeah, I'm pretty pleased with it. Atleast I have another excuse to get a 360 now :D
 
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Atleast I have another excuse to get a 360 now :D
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Yeah, but you would probably make Tiscali's servers explode. :lol:

Nice purchase. 👍 I didn't know Toshiba made any HDTVs at all...
 
Hehe, they do, apparently. Along with melting laptops...

I've got a question. The TV runs at 1366x768, but my laptop's graphics card refuses to display that resolution. The really annoying thing is, when I google the name of my card and the resolution I want, all I can find is Sony Vaio users saying it's their native resoltion and they want to change to some insane size. ARGH. Any ideas?
 
Thanks :)

Off to pick up a decent stand today - there's something about 8 year old plastic covered chipboard that doesn't reek quality.
 
Nice TV 👍

Just a quick question. When you looked at the TV in-store, did you compare the picture quality? Or were you just seeing what was aesthetically good and had the best features.

The reason I ask is then when I'm in work I notice that there's a huge variation in quality, and it turns out much of that is due to the diferent sources the signal comes from (Philips incist on having their own demos played on their TVs) and the distance of the TV from the source (There's bound to be deteriation over 10-20m of cable, right?)
 
Yeah, the degraded quality in a store is probably due to the signal being split between many TVs, or the reception being poor. I've also noticed TVs in general are set-up incorrectly in the first place - unless you go to a professional place - until you fiddle around yourself if you actually buy it.
 
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Nice TV 👍

Just a quick question. When you looked at the TV in-store, did you compare the picture quality? Or were you just seeing what was aesthetically good and had the best features.

The reason I ask is then when I'm in work I notice that there's a huge variation in quality, and it turns out much of that is due to the diferent sources the signal comes from (Philips incist on having their own demos played on their TVs) and the distance of the TV from the source (There's bound to be deteriation over 10-20m of cable, right?)
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We compared the picture quality, although we wouldn't have if the signal wasn't HD. In currys, literally all LCDs are using the same HD signal (14 inch to 42 inch). As you said, the Philips ones use their own signal, apart from in PCWorld (which helped us rule out those).

Comet, however, had coaxials in the back of all but 3 tvs, which makes it impossible to compare them.

But yeah, the signals were so alike in currys that we found it hard to spot the difference between them all.
 
Jondot
I've got a question. The TV runs at 1366x768, but my laptop's graphics card refuses to display that resolution.
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Many fixed pixel displays (LCD, LCoS, DLP, Plasma, etc) offer a "pass-through" input setting. In other words, the display will only use the same pixel array as the resolution of the source (as long as the source resolution is the same or less than the display's native resolution).

For instance, if a graphic card is set to output a 800x600 signal to a 1366x768 display via an input set to "pass-through", then the display will only use the necessary 480,000 pixels to display the 800x600 images. Leaving the remaining 569,088 pixels "off". How the pass-through image is placed on the display is dependent on each manufacturer. Some center it, some will pace it in a corner, some centered on the top, some centered on the bottom.

The end result is that you get a perfect 1:1 pixel match, such that no scaling is ever applied. This is an ideal solution for presentations involving a lot of text, as scaling often makes text 'soft', and thus dificult to read.
 
Ahh, I see. I thought it might be something like that. The odd thing is, resolutions that should be too big, fit (albeit not perfectly). What's really annoying is that I constantly have to have the startbar knocked off because my card won't display at a resolution it should work with. It'd be nice just to have it fit...
 
Jondot - there are some free programs out on the net to force your graphics card to display at other resolutions - figure out what brand of card you have and to a google search for "<graphics card name> force resolution"
 

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