Bye Bye SDTV Hello HDTV...heh

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I was planning on going to a Black Friday sale to pick up a LCD widescreen HDTV, but suddenly I had the case of the dreads of being run over by a crowd at the Walfart or Best Buy so I decided I might pick one up early.

So I picked up a Samsung SyncMaster 940mw 19" widescreen LCD combination HDTV/computer monitor for 325 at the Best Buy. When I got the monitor home, tossed out my old RCA 19" XL100 SDTV and connected the 360 to it thru the HDAV cables, the difference was soo like day and night. I have to agree with Steelx on that once I get a taste of 1080i there is no way in hell I am going back to SDTV.

Playing PGR3 on the old SDTV and the HDTV really showed the details especially in the interiors of the cars. SDTV, I couldnt read the damn text and I keep swearing I needed glasses :lol: When I played it on 1080i for the first time, I was so distracted by the beauty of the image the HDTV was showing I hit the wall!

Right now I'm trying to copy my laptop's desktop over to the HDTV but Im still running into a bit of problems that I'll figure out as I go on.

Anyways Im attaching the before n after pics of the new gaming setup...
 

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I got ur message via Xbox live so I thought I come in and wonder how you like ur new HD monitor so far? lol either 720p or 1080p, it's still freakin sweet.
 
yeah I have it set to 1080i but going to try 1080p like we discussed about at xbox Live.

I'm still messing with the settings to optimize it and make it run mch better. Another thing I have noticed is that the response the Samsung makes its response rate at 8ms was so blazing fast every time I make a move on the 360's controller. When I played on SDTV, the controls felt so slow to refresh on it. I find that interesting.

Bonus was it came with a remote. No other VGA monitors in Best Buy had the remote like the Sammy. I found another Sammy a regular 19" LCD HDTV, but it was on sale for 399. It took me a hour to decide which Sammy I would take home...what a delicious dilemma I had today.
 
Steel X said:
awesome glad you enjoy it. Happy Thanksgiving. ;)
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Same goes 4 u too man. I tried 1080p found I may need to use VGA cable to get to 1080p. HDAV will top out on 1080i on the Sammy.

For now it is set on 720p as I am concerned that the GPU in the 360 will be pushed to extremes when I play on 1080i/1080p generating so much heat.
 
sablescort said:
Same goes 4 u too man. I tried 1080p found I may need to use VGA cable to get to 1080p. HDAV will top out on 1080i on the Sammy.

For now it is set on 720p as I am concerned that the GPU in the 360 will be pushed to extremes when I play on 1080i/1080p generating so much heat.
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Now that I remember, I read it somewhere at IGN.com (or gamespot.com lol cant really remember which) but they did say that when playing HD-DVDs on HD VGA, they do find 1080p to be rather nice on the LCD montior than 1080i or 720p on HDTV for some reason because the HD-DVD drive doesnt have HDMI input, you know?

so it's up to you if you wanna get VGA to experience gaming in 1080p thou ur HDTV still looks nice.
 
Wow, I can't believe what you got.. I hope you feeling no regrets about your sweet HDTV.. have enjoy playing videogame on HDTV... :)


GOOD LUCK
 
sablescort said:
I was planning on going to a Black Friday sale to pick up a LCD widescreen HDTV, but suddenly I had the case of the dreads of being run over by a crowd at the Walfart or Best Buy so I decided I might pick one up early.

So I picked up a Samsung SyncMaster 940mw 19" widescreen LCD combination HDTV/computer monitor for 325 at the Best Buy. When I got the monitor home, tossed out my old RCA 19" XL100 SDTV and connected the 360 to it thru the HDAV cables, the difference was soo like day and night. I have to agree with Steelx on that once I get a taste of 1080i there is no way in hell I am going back to SDTV.

Playing PGR3 on the old SDTV and the HDTV really showed the details especially in the interiors of the cars. SDTV, I couldnt read the damn text and I keep swearing I needed glasses :lol: When I played it on 1080i for the first time, I was so distracted by the beauty of the image the HDTV was showing I hit the wall!

Right now I'm trying to copy my laptop's desktop over to the HDTV but Im still running into a bit of problems that I'll figure out as I go on.

Anyways Im attaching the before n after pics of the new gaming setup...
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I found out from Best Buy but does it work with Directv? I don't know about called "Ant in" and doesn't work with Directv because need hook on round coaxial, such as screw in.
 
Samsung HDTV 940mw is only have one weird coaxial input.
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For most HDTV have screw in for coaxial, such as work for Directv.
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Sablescort, you dont really have to get VGA if you already got HD-AV cables, then you should be fine.

HD-AV cables and VGA dont have any major differences expect that thru VGA can play 1080p, but 1080p isnt that much common as 720p and 1080i are so I would rather use 1080i thru HD-AV cables cause I rather play games on a TV than a montior cause I just most often use it as the computer than games so...either HD-AV cables or VGA is just optinal when it comes to HD.
 
Pacman said:
Samsung HDTV 940mw is only have one weird coaxial input.
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For most HDTV have screw in for coaxial, such as work for Directv.
h75ohmCoaxialConnector.jpg
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The TV that I want to get have HDMI so hopefully in the future I can take advantage of HDMI.
 
Steel X said:
Sablescort, you dont really have to get VGA if you already got HD-AV cables, then you should be fine.

HD-AV cables and VGA dont have any major differences expect that thru VGA can play 1080p, but 1080p isnt that much common as 720p and 1080i are so I would rather use 1080i thru HD-AV cables cause I rather play games on a TV than a montior cause I just most often use it as the computer than games so...either HD-AV cables or VGA is just optinal when it comes to HD.
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lol well my 940mw has been on the 360's HDAV cables since I got the HDTV. The laptop is hooked to the VGA port and a clone of the laptop's screen is displayed on the HDTV.

The HDTV on the 360's HDAV cables is set on 1080i right now.
 
sablescort said:
lol well my 940mw has been on the 360's HDAV cables since I got the HDTV. The laptop is hooked to the VGA port and a clone of the laptop's screen is displayed on the HDTV.

The HDTV on the 360's HDAV cables is set on 1080i right now.
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Do you reply my post about coaxial on cable?

Steel, no... I means for coaxial that what watch on tv, such as cable and directv but sab's tv have weird coaxial inpuit, also not for video game.
 
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