Samsung 23" LE-23R41B LCD - Questions

[Craig88]

Hi everyone, recently I was lucky enough to get a Xbox360 and naively enough hooked it up to my PC monitor expecting HD graphics but I didn't realise it had to be widescreen and I ended up with 2 big black bars at the top and bottom of my screen, taking up 1/4 of monitor space each (although my crappy old CRT tv isn't widescreen, it manageed to squeeze it all in nicely, wats up with that?) My PC monitor is pretty good, 17" TFT but some of the textures looked better on my small, old CRT and there seemed to be less, if not the same amount of jaggies - I would have expected playing on an old CRT to be more.

Well, I decided I wasn't gunna b able to put up with big black bars across my screen for the next few years, so I've decided now's right to get a HDTV.

I don't have too much money right now and so I've decided to go for a smaller HDTV, the Samsung 23" LE-23R41B



I checked out your HDTV ready thread and this TV wasn't listed there, although on this picture it says it is, can someone clear this up?

I mainly plan on using this TV for playing on the Xbox360 via a VGA Cable, does anybody here have this TV and can comment on the quality (pics would be cool too!) and I'm pretty sure this is the TV Microsoft are using to show off the 360 in shops, can anyone confirm this?

I would probably end up using this as a replacement for my TV too, I've heard TV images don't look too great on this, I'm not a big TV watcher so I'm not going to let TV quality affect my descion to purchase but would be nice to know wat to expect. What about using it as a PC monitor? bit too big for Word documents and websites isn't it?

When it comes to actually buying it, do you think I should wait until the January sales start - I'm also pretty interested in the 26" version of this TV too, is this likely to have a price reduction in the January sales and I should hold off buying one until then?

With the 26" version of this TV, is quality going to be excatly the same, just on a smaller TV size?

Thanks for ready, any comments would be really appreciated!

[dan1979]

I think it lacks the 'HD ready' badge because it lacks a digital video input (DVI or HDMI) there's a newer model out the LE23T51B which is a little cheaper and rectifies that.

For £550 from play.com there's a 27inch version too.

You'll find a lot more info in the LCD TV's section

[Craig88]

Originally Posted by dan1979

I think it lacks the 'HD ready' badge because it lacks a digital video input (DVI or HDMI) there's a newer model out the LE23T51B which is a little cheaper and rectifies that.

For £550 from play.com there's a 27inch version too.

You'll find a lot more info in the LCD TV's section

hey thanks, do you think I could get a mod to move this thread over to the LCD section?

[EDIT] Posted this elsewhere, feel free to delete this thread if needed