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Old 11-11-2007, 18:53
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Whats your views on this TV?

http://www.argos.co.uk/webapp/wcs/st...n+LCD+&x=0&y=0

Thanks in advance.
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Old 11-11-2007, 19:19
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It's OK.

Does the job of being a monitor better than the job of being a TV, but it does both pretty well.

The only thing that annoyed me was that it crops 16:9 inputs to 16:10, losing a little bit of the screen, something that the 225MW (22") solved by allowing you to letterbox the image slightly if you want to.

Other than that, I'm happy with mine, but prefer the 22" one that was £250 at Argos a few months ago, although now I've just seen it has gone up to £300.
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Old 26-11-2007, 21:44
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ive got one of these

i bought it back in summer 06 because it said 'hd ready' on the argos website

since then i tried to use my ps3 in hd mode via a component cable and it doesn't like it. it works in 576 mode however

now checking the argos and samsung websites its no longer advertised as 'hd ready'
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Old 26-11-2007, 21:57
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ive got one of these

i bought it back in summer 06 because it said 'hd ready' on the argos website

since then i tried to use my ps3 in hd mode via a component cable and it doesn't like it. it works in 576 mode however
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Sorry, but HD Ready has nothing to do with your PS3.

The Argos site even says "TV is not compatible with Blu Ray DVD Players or Playstation 3 Games consoles"

Presumably this means it won't accept 1080P?, which isn't a requirement of HD Ready.
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:09
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Yep, just 1080i, and even then it has to scale down quite a bit with the resolution being 1440x900.

And it's 16:10, not 16:9, which I think may also have something to do with it. It's definitely more of a PC monitor than a TV.
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:09
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it will not even run on the low hd level (not 1080)

it works on the tv though on the 576 mode through a component cable
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:11
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it will not even run on the low hd level (not 1080)

it works on the tv though on the 576 mode through a component cable
There's something weird going on there, maybe with the PS3? When I had my 360, 720p and 1080i worked fine on this monitor.
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:13
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The Argos site does says "TV is not compatible with Blu Ray DVD Players or Playstation 3 Games consoles

but it does just not anything higher than 576
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:18
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There's something weird going on there, maybe with the PS3? When I had my 360, 720p and 1080i worked fine on this monitor.
were you using a component cable, maybe the hd works for the 360 but not for the ps3
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:20
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were you using a component cable, maybe the hd works for the 360 but not for the ps3
Yeah, using component. I could understand it not working through HDMI via the DVI socket, but component should work fine, in theory anyway.
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Old 26-11-2007, 22:22
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perhaps it does have a problem hd wise with the ps3, the argos website says nothing about problems with the 360
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