Metropol

So, having in my possession a lovely new V+ box (one of the fab Samsung ones at that) with it's HD goodness I am now tempted to replace the venerable CRT with a nice flat panel.

Having spent several days pottering around shops with t'other half to find him a new 40" screen I have came to the conclusion that Samsung screens are the fabbest and don't have the backlighting problems I've previously been irritated by when it comes to LCDs.

However due to a selection of reasons I am more attracted to a 32" screen rather than a massive one. Which brings me to my question.

One of them I had been considering has a screen resolution of 1366 x 768 which is neither 720 nor 1080.
http://www.johnlewis.com/230562551/Product.aspx


So my question is, does this matter? I suspect that there is a minor amount of overscan style image processing going on anyhow but will a tad more make a major difference?

Having said all this I am now thinking it might best to wait until new year and get some sort of 1080i/1080p panel instead in the sales.

No it doesn't matter. I don't fully understand where the pixels go but my 720p telly is the same resolution as that and the old xbox displays everything perfectly neatly over HDMI. Also 720p is almost always able to do 1080i

Hymagumba wrote: Having said all this I am now thinking it might best to wait until new year and get some sort of 1080i/1080p panel instead in the sales.

I would imagine there will be loads of sales before Christmas (what a strange imagination i have got) and from January vat will rise back to 17.5% so that's an extra 2.5% on top of the price straight away.

Incidentally, John Lewis will price match Richer Sounds (which currently sells it for £30 less in-store) if you call them up. The john lewis warranty is 5 years compared to the 1 year that Richer Sounds gives, but those that have tried this say JL are still price matching and throwing in the 5 year warranty anyway. That's a win

John Lewis also does free delivery.

I assume that the Gumba impatience+car would trump willingness to have it delivered though

Sput wrote:I assume that the Gumba impatience+car would trump willingness to have it delivered though

Normally yes, but John Lewis is 70 miles away and requires navigation of the worst car park in the world. Also my car is in for it's MOT/Service on Wed and will likely need a new exhaust amongst other things.

Hymagumba wrote:

Sput wrote:I assume that the Gumba impatience+car would trump willingness to have it delivered though

Normally yes, but John Lewis is 70 miles away and requires navigation of the worst car park in the world. Also my car is in for it's MOT/Service on Wed and will likely need a new exhaust amongst other things.

is it MY fault you're shit?

Well I've decided against the telly due to

1 - having no money
2 - spending £400 of my no money getting the car fixed
3 - considering the carbon footprint of disposing of my old CRT before its true end of life (ok that's a lie)

However I've recommended mummy dearest buy the above as she requires a new TV and refused my offer to take my old one and give me £100 for it. tsk @ her. It's probably because she's one of those dreadful northern any dream will do watching misfits.

No sadly, I am but too poor to buy one. If only there was some sort of money making scheme I could exploit...

I'll get to work on the Metro MMO right away!

Hymagumba wrote:However I've recommended mummy dearest buy the above as she requires a new TV and refused my offer to take my old one and give me £100 for it. tsk @ her. It's probably because she's one of those dreadful northern any dream will do watching misfits.

You were going to charge your mum for an old tv you want rid of?!