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<blockquote data-quote="knutinh" data-source="post: 57782" data-attributes="member: 14776">It seems that its a wild west out there in flat screen land. Some of the common &quot;features&quot;:1:1 pixel resolution is impossible. Philips (among others) are outputing expensive 1920x1080 pixel lcds that does not accept 1080p for input! Others enforce rescaling + cropping meaning that one source pixel is distributed on perhaps 1.1 display pixels, and borders around the picture is lostPanels are &quot;rate locked&quot; at 60 Hz (NTSC standard) so even if it does accept &quot;PAL&quot; 50 Hz at its inputs, it will be rate-converted.DVI/HDMI/VGA/s-video inputs are treated differently, and theres no guess which will fit your setup, as info from producers is scarce to say the least.Plasma screens have problems with burn-in for static images suc has the MP GUI.Plasmas may be &quot;hd-ready&quot; but still have a weird resolution such as 1024x1024 or 1024x768 on a 16:9 display, meaning that the image must be stretched to fit.The sad thing is that most customers know nothing of these problems, and the lcds on display in shops is near impossible to test for these things.Hopefully, the market will mature once we get past this &quot;must have flat screen for football &quot; thing-k</blockquote>

[QUOTE="knutinh, post: 57782, member: 14776"] It seems that its a wild west out there in flat screen land. Some of the common "features": 1:1 pixel resolution is impossible. Philips (among others) are outputing expensive 1920x1080 pixel lcds that does not accept 1080p for input! Others enforce rescaling + cropping meaning that one source pixel is distributed on perhaps 1.1 display pixels, and borders around the picture is lost Panels are "rate locked" at 60 Hz (NTSC standard) so even if it does accept "PAL" 50 Hz at its inputs, it will be rate-converted. DVI/HDMI/VGA/s-video inputs are treated differently, and theres no guess which will fit your setup, as info from producers is scarce to say the least. Plasma screens have problems with burn-in for static images suc has the MP GUI. Plasmas may be "hd-ready" but still have a weird resolution such as 1024x1024 or 1024x768 on a 16:9 display, meaning that the image must be stretched to fit. The sad thing is that most customers know nothing of these problems, and the lcds on display in shops is near impossible to test for these things. Hopefully, the market will mature once we get past this "must have flat screen for football " thing -k [/QUOTE]

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