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July 29, 2006
Oh my god it's full of pixels!
No real post tonight, as my day was spent purchasing a very well-regarded new TV, the Westinghouse LVM-37w3.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Prettttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttty
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My last monitor was a 17" Radius CRT with a 1024x768 resolution.
My last television was a standard definition 20" Sony CRT so old it lacked S-Video inputs, let alone component.
This new gem of an LCD panel is 37" and has a 1920x1080 resolution. That's right: 1080p, baby!
The most surprising thing is how well it works with the legacy interfaces. I don't have any DVI or component cables around, so I'm feeding it from a cable box over composite, a DVD player over S-Video, and my G5 PowerMac over VGA. Even with an analog connection, it works perfectly at its full rez. And the DVD player! It looks waaaaaay better than I expected it would. It scales to full screen with just the slightest blurriness, and I'm not even pushing it a progressive signal yet, so it's deinterlacing as well!
Speaking of scaling, I threw a 720p copy of The 5th Element at the display, and it looked so good my dad thought it was full HD.
The backlight is so strong it might transform the term "monitor tan" from irony to reality.
I installed Synergy, so I just move my laptop's cursor above its menu bar and Whooosh! I'm controlled the flat panel. VNC was struggling with the resolution.
I'd held off on buying the Westy for months; it's near impossible to find them in stores in the Tampa Bay area and I was hesitant to buy before viewing it in action. Today, Best Buy showed one in stock at Tyrone Mall, and I snatched it up sight-unseen.
Had I anticipated just how sublime the set would be, I'd have plunked down the cash long ago.
Posted by Jon Rubin at July 29, 2006 09:38 PM
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