Originally Posted by Fez
Originally Posted by Thrush
I wanna do the same thing but with a big bastid 42" LCD screen
Don't bother with an lcd intended to be used as a tv. They have a shit resolution - most of them are max 13XX x 768 or so. Even the smallest widescreen computer displays can do higher than that. Wth computers you should want a larger desktop area - not just larger picture.
Nah thats the thing - if I bought an LCD or plasma big widescreen (like 40", 42", 50" etc) I want a monitor only, and I want it to be commercial grade, as they are generally better. Reason for monitor only is I don't want it with built in speakers or TV decoders etc..... Just want a big flat panel monitor, commercial grade usually is of a higher Hz rate aswell, and plug everything into it from PC, to DTT box, DVD, VCR, etc.... Then all those units would run their sound out to an AV amp which runs the 5.1 sound set up.
We had this all set up on my TV downstairs (the gear was my bro's which he has taken to his new house now
) but it basically left the TV as a monitor as we didn't use the speakers on it (put em on mute as otherwise they disturbed the audio as we'd spent ages perfectly positioning the speakers for 5.1) or the remote as everything ran thru the AV amp
Which is why I keep going down the big Asda's and Tesco's asking wm if they wanna get rid of a couple of thier 50" plasma's for a few quid