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On Friday 08 May 2009, Tom Potts wrote: > Ignoring the content quality of digital tv (and how easy that is to do) > when I've looked at things called digital TV's they've always looked like > boxes of bad pixels at a stupidly high cost. Anything larger than about 28" > in a room less than 20' long and I get a collection of pixels not an image. > OK I can see the image but tend to notice all the aliasing etc - and on > some of the bigger ones you can almost see the grouting! > I'd much rather look at a 20" pc monitor at 6' than a 40" tv at 12' - and > it would probably be cheaper to buy the whole family a laptop so they can > watch what they want from a central server. And then take them on a > Caribbean holiday with the savings! > Tom te tom te tom I have a 37" plasma panasonic, about 3 years old now, and even close up you can't see the grouting. We got it because my other half has terrible eyes and couldn't see the grand prix and her wonderful David on a 22" crt. But it is in a big room, 28x15', so it isn't overpowering. The 200 watts it takes is a problem though. We too get digital picture break-up like Rob and I'm also hoping this is running-in problems, not a permanent state. Us'll zee zoon nuff. George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html