Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-15 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 10:03 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote: Could you post your xorg.conf? Sounds like your Samsung may be very similar to mine, and I still haven't found good modeline (what I have now works, but shimmers - don't know a better way to describe it). Mine's an HCL5515W, and I have a 5200 and

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-15 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 10:09 PM, Jeff Wormsley wrote: With my TV when scenes when somewhat dark, the TV would think that the video signal was gone and display the Component message moving around on the screen (very annoying). Further evidence you may have a very close TV to mine. I found how to stop

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-15 Thread Kyle Rose
What brands/technologies seem to work the best and look good as well. I'm thinking of getting a DLP based TV unless someone has had a super bad experience. I have to second (third? fourth?) the Samsung suggestion. I have the third-generation 61 DLP RPTV, and it rocks. I can not say enough

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread David George
On 3/12/2005 10:34 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:27 -0500, john roberts wrote: I've helped several of my friends build MythTV boxes and they have many different makes/models of HDTV's. I would say the best HDTV I've seen so far has been the Samsung. Any particular model,

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread Jim Oltman
How well does this frontend work for HD? It sounds like you are going to be selling these frontends. Do you have any writeups for setting up the software? Any special Myth gotchas? Jim On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:29:45 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/12/2005 10:34 PM, Ron

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 11:13 AM, Jim Oltman wrote: How well does this frontend work for HD? Are you referring to the link in my sig? (Hard to tell because you didn't trim your quote to the relevant portion of the message you were replying to. :-( ) If so, I am still working on it. :-) I hope to

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread Jim Oltman
How much did this system set you back, excluding the LED board. How did you get the IR sensor working off the motherboard? Do you have link for that? On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 12:21:40 -0500, David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/2005 11:13 AM, Jim Oltman wrote: How well does this

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread David George
On 3/14/2005 12:27 PM, Jim Oltman wrote: How much did this system set you back, excluding the LED board. Not including the LED board, about $600. I could have cut corners a little. I could have probably used a 512MB flash instead of 1GB (about $40 cheaper at the time). Also the case is fairly

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-14 Thread Jeff Wormsley
David George wrote: My three year old Samsung rear projection can be a pain sometimes. It was very difficult to create a usable modeline for it[1] and the remote control is horrible (no longer a problem now that I have Myth :-) ). I have only heard *good* things about the DLPs though so they

RE: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-13 Thread Jack R. Hyde
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jack Heneghan Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2005 10:47 PM To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth I believe all the Samsungs are based on the same DLP chip. The HD images are great. As another e-mail noted, check in with the AVS

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-13 Thread john roberts
Willden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Discussion about mythtv mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:45:26 -0700 Jack Heneghan wrote: I have a Samsung DLP with DVI and VGA interfaces along with a number

RE: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-13 Thread Moasat
Thanks everyone for the input. I will certainly check out AVSForums again. I am pretty sure I want a DLP based set but I'm more concerned about which ones work well with Myth and what others are using. Posted modelines would be a great help as well. I haven't had hardly any complaints with my

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-13 Thread Shawn Willden
john roberts wrote: Shawn, I have the same TV - love it. BTW - how do you watch 1080i content on the TV? Do you drive the tv at 1280x720p and do de-interlacing on the MythTV box? Do you have interlacing issues? I actually don't have any 1080i content to watch (yet -- I'm sure that will

[mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Moasat
I have an MX4000 but I may upgrade that to something with DVI. I'm wondering if any users that have a working HDTV/Myth setup could offer any pointers for buying a nice HDTV. I currently have a Hitachi that never really played well with Myth and my AA VGA to YUV converter. (Never could get a

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Brad Templeton
On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 10:30:24AM -0600, Moasat wrote: I have an MX4000 but I may upgrade that to something with DVI. I'm wondering if any users that have a working HDTV/Myth setup could offer any pointers for buying a nice HDTV. I currently have a Hitachi that never really played well with

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread john roberts
mythtv-users@mythtv.org Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:10:04 -0700 I have a Samsung DLP with DVI and VGA interfaces along with a number of Component, S-video and composite inputs. I am still in the process of acquiring the mythTV components

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Jim Oltman
] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 18:10:04 -0700 I have a Samsung DLP with DVI and VGA interfaces along with a number of Component, S-video and composite inputs. I am still in the process of acquiring the mythTV components , but I have used it as a PC monitor

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:27 -0500, john roberts wrote: I've helped several of my friends build MythTV boxes and they have many different makes/models of HDTV's. I would say the best HDTV I've seen so far has been the Samsung. Any particular model, or are all Samsungs good, like Sony used to

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Shawn Willden
Jack Heneghan wrote: I have a Samsung DLP with DVI and VGA interfaces along with a number of Component, S-video and composite inputs. I am still in the process of acquiring the mythTV components , but I have used it as a PC monitor and it works very well. A 50 monitor can be a bit

Re: [mythtv-users] Shopping for an HDTV for Myth

2005-03-12 Thread Jack Heneghan
I believe all the Samsungs are based on the same DLP chip. The HD images are great. As another e-mail noted, check in with the AVS forum http://www.avsforum.com/ for more details of what is going on with the current generation of HD sets. JCH Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 22:27