Re: Advice on possible Tosh WLT66 purchase please

John Rumm wrote:
gillasauras@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

I am considering one of these for my office to stream presentations
from a pc equipped with an nvidia 7800 card. I understand that VGA on
this panel will only display as 800x600, if I use an HD dongle plugged
into the component in will I get a widescreen picture?
If the answer is no would I be wise to look for another panel with
a DVI connector?

I installed the 37" version for one of our clients recently. The primary requirement was for TV use (in a customer reception area of their office), but with the option of running a PC display on it as well.

It displays 1280 x 768 reasonably well (even though its native resolution is in theory 1366x768). The main downside of this unit is that none of the picture positioning controls function when in PC input mode. As a result it tends to show a slightly overscanned picture and there is no way to tweak it.

Overall the picture quality on PC is not bad, and for TV was quite nice on its IDTV tuner. It does lack more advanced options like picture in picture though.

By comparison we also installed some of these for a window display:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000IB59BQ/internodeltdcomp

And I was blown away by the quality of the PC input on these! I have seen bespoke PC monitors that don't look as good. The display is also fully tweakable, so you can position, scale and centre it nicely. Very impressive. The only downside on these was you can't get it to power up and default to the PC input.


I use the WLT56 (20") as my computer display in 1366x768 (XP) and have no problems. The previous drivers (Win98) would only go to 1280x768 and then the picture was slightly overscannned.

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Now, how can I get the freeview broadcasts to display properly from CP (on a good day I can get sky news/sports news and an almost watchable BBC - there is a very large hill in the way which peaks above all three lines on Megalithea terrain mapping) while I wait for Hannington to transmit in my direction in 2012 :-(
</rhetorical>

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