At 12:22 PM -0400 7/1/04, John Golitsis wrote: >There seems to be a silly premium attached to a "TV" LCD display versus a >"Computer" LCD display, but you can turn any PC LCD display into a TV by >adding a device such as the NextVision series by ViewSonic. The end result >is often significantly cheaper then an LCD "TV" of equal size. There aren't >a lot of 16:9 LCD computer displays at this point, but without burn-in to >worry about, does it matter? As the article noted, there is an "unsupportable " (in the long term) premium on LCD TVs, except for some of the non-name brand units like those mentioned by Bert, which more accurately reflect what the price could or should be. But there is also a question of getting what you pay for. A friend bought a 17" Sceptre LCD TV for use in his video editing system. The "video performance" was so bad that he gave up on it, and it now is being used as a computer display on a PC. Also keep in mind that adding video processing capabilities to an LCD panel is not free. The NTSC tuner is cheap, but you also need an image processing sub-system to handle de-interlacing and colorspace conversions including gamma correction. And there are extra connectors. What may be more likely in the future is that LCD panels will simply come with a DVI connector and possibly a USB port for control. As John notes is to easy to provide the desired I/O externally. Widescreen computer displays are growing in popularity as the panel sizes get bigger. ALL of Appl's LCD displays are now widescreen (typically 16:10); and the top of the line Powerbook model now sports a wide screen. Once you have 700-1000 lines vertically, it begins to make more sense to make the display wider so that documents can be displayed side by side. Regards Craig ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.