Harrison
8th July 2008, 04:20
Argos are currently selling a 19" Samsung HD Ready LCD TV (pebble) for £179.99.
We just bought one for the bedroom (pre-wedding present) and I've very impressed with it. The image quality for standard definition (SD) broadcasts are very good. SD broadcasts tend to look a bit pixelated and blocky up close on LCD TVs, however on this TV it looks pretty good even close up. I've not been able to test it with an HD signal because we don't have access to HD yet. However I did see it running a PS3 game and also displaying HD broadcasts in Currys and it looked very nice.
This TV can also be used as a PC monitor. It has both VGA and DVI sockets on the back and will run at a native resolution of 1440x900 which is quite a nice resolution for a 19" LCD. It also has a large selection of other inputs for all other combinations of connector. Composite and audio phono, rgb scart, component, hdmi... etc. So it supports pretty much every connection you could think of.
This made me think of something. For everyone looking for a way to connect up their Amiga to a TV, this TV could be a good solution. With the Scart and composite phono connectors you have two good ways of accessing the low 15Hz TV mode used in most Amiga games, and with the VGA connector it might be possible to also access the higher AGA modes, although that would need to be tested.
We just bought one for the bedroom (pre-wedding present) and I've very impressed with it. The image quality for standard definition (SD) broadcasts are very good. SD broadcasts tend to look a bit pixelated and blocky up close on LCD TVs, however on this TV it looks pretty good even close up. I've not been able to test it with an HD signal because we don't have access to HD yet. However I did see it running a PS3 game and also displaying HD broadcasts in Currys and it looked very nice.
This TV can also be used as a PC monitor. It has both VGA and DVI sockets on the back and will run at a native resolution of 1440x900 which is quite a nice resolution for a 19" LCD. It also has a large selection of other inputs for all other combinations of connector. Composite and audio phono, rgb scart, component, hdmi... etc. So it supports pretty much every connection you could think of.
This made me think of something. For everyone looking for a way to connect up their Amiga to a TV, this TV could be a good solution. With the Scart and composite phono connectors you have two good ways of accessing the low 15Hz TV mode used in most Amiga games, and with the VGA connector it might be possible to also access the higher AGA modes, although that would need to be tested.