On Sep 11, 2005, at 10:11, PAUL WILLIAMSON wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/10/05 4:23 AM >>>No issues here with the new 37" 1080p LCD set I just bought...Ok, do tell Jarod - what's the model TV?
Westinghouse LVM-37w1. Did a fair amount of reading about it on avsforum.com before buying, found nothing bad about it. The great part was the price -- a mere (cough) $1900. The set has no tuners at all, which brings the cost down a ways -- instead, its got two DVI inputs, one VGA and two component (and svid and composite, but I don't use 'em). All my TV viewing goes either through Myth or a cable box, so that worked out peachy for me. I'm driving it via DVI from my Myth box using a GeForce 6200 with this modeline:
ModeLine "1920x1080p" 148.352 1920 1960 2016 2200 1080 1082 1088 1125The BIOS comes up just fine on the screen as well, and it accepts standard VESA modes also, so I even did a bare-metal FC4 gui-driven install using nothing but this as my display the whole way. The 1080p mode fits the display perfectly too, not an ounce of overscan and I don't have to run any software deint filters, the TV handles that in hardware.
I'm guessing this is no longer part of the Wilson household? Display: 47" Panasonic HDTV, connected via an Audio Authority 9A60 VGA to component video transcoder
Haven't actually unloaded either the TV or the 9A60 yet, but plan to.
Thought about a projector, but there just really isn't a way for it towork where I've got my TV now. I've had the LCD a week now, and it blows the doors off my old rear-projection set. Its damned sweet, no misgivings about getting it. Works especially peachy for MythTV -- feeding it a true 1080p signal via DVI.How far away is your primary viewing area? I've been kicking around the idea of an LCD, but I sit about 14' away from where my TV is. The standard I've heard is 1" of TV width for every 5" of distance from the TV. Based on that, a 37" TV would be just about right.
I think its going to be about 8-10' to the TV, but we're still shuffling furniture (off to move some now...). Been watching from about 6' away, and SDTV definitely shows its lack of resolution, but the HDTV stuff is amazing even if I'm an inch from the screen.
-- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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