I'm looking for a 17" - 20" LCD with built-in freeview and a D-sub for connection to a laptop. Surprisingly these appear very thin on the ground (and expensive).

There's the Humax LGB17DTTV at around £350, the Toshiba 20WLT56 at £375-£400 (I can't find the 17" version) and that seems to be about it.

Any other ideas? Hd readiness is an advantage, I might consider a non-built in DVB-T tuner if the TV had enough other connections and use one of those scart freeview tuners.

I think finding it with built in Freeview and D-Sub will be a nightmare.

Seems strange though, you'd have thought it would be a popular product

By D-Sub, do you mean 15-pin, for VGA? If so, then why not look at TVs with a DVI input (and freeview) and then just get a VGA-DVI cable? like this

Have you considered getting a Freeview card/box for your laptop? This would give you some PVR functions as well.

Look at the Sony KDL20S2030U, seems to tick all the boxes as well as being HD ready with a HDMI connection.

It does but its £480 plus


I'd prefer to have a separate piece of kit so I don't need to fire up the laptop to watch TV

How about the good old Wharfedale 17" LCD IDTV currently £319 from Argos. Gives you Freeview and has D-sub connector for PC.

I have the samsung 19" lcd from argos £249 works perfect and have a pvr hooked to it. a freeview box is a lot cheaper than paying for it built in just another thing to go wrong. has all the connections u want for p.c. etc. it also has a 3yr samsung warranty
Last edited by beachwalker : 10-12-2006 at 13:59

Thanks guys a couple of good suggestions, any other?

Which Samsung model do you have? What connections does it have?
Scarts? S-video socket? Component? DVI/HDMI? RCA Audio input? etc.