<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 13:47, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:criggie@criggie.dyndns.org">criggie@criggie.dyndns.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 26/03/11 12:53, Stephen Worthington wrote:</div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
> What I would really like is for TVs to be available that do not bother<br>
> to have speakers, or even tuners, as both are really unnecessary when<br>
> you are using MythTV and I hate having to pay for them.<br>
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</div>They exist - we call them monitors :)<br></blockquote><div><br>Unfortunately they don't come in 40+" varieties. And in many ways monitors have been replaced by TVs on computers, which is not a good thing. There aren't many monitors with resolutions above 1080p, those that exist are very pricey. Pixel size seems to be stuck at no more than 110ppi - my phone has a 300ppi screen and I have a 12 year old CRT that's 120ppi. It's stuck because TVs don't need higher resolutions. And I may be in the minority here, but I much prefer 4:3 for monitors - I just don't see any benefit to the widescreen format for anything but video and some games. For anything involving reading vertical space is far more important than horiztonal space yet 4:3 monitors are getting rare. All because the panel manufacturers want to focus on TVs.<br>
<br>I guess things might improve when TV takes the next step up in resolution to 4K or 2540p or whatever. Which will probably happen in about 3-5 years once 3D has lost it's selling power.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br> <br>
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