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Samsung SM940MW 19in LCD TV Reviews?
Roger5737
11-11-2007
Whats your views on this TV?

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

Thanks in advance.
Praxidike
11-11-2007
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.
Hermjca
26-11-2007
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'
Nigel Goodwin
26-11-2007
Originally Posted by Hermjca:
“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
(”

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.
Praxidike
26-11-2007
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.
Hermjca
26-11-2007
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
Praxidike
26-11-2007
Originally Posted by Hermjca:
“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.
Hermjca
26-11-2007
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
Hermjca
26-11-2007
Originally Posted by Praxidike:
“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
Praxidike
26-11-2007
Originally Posted by Hermjca:
“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.
Hermjca
26-11-2007
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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