Advice please? LCD Monitor

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LancelotSA said:
I see the ones offered come with a 3 year warranty...
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Most LCD monitors worth their salt will offer at least this much... Was JUST about to suggest looking into the warranties, because all things being equal, I'd go for the monitor with the better warranty (and I'm talking about dead-pixels too)
 
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sn3rd said:
Most LCD monitors worth their salt will offer at least this much... Was JUST about to suggest looking into the warranties, because all things being equal, I'd go for the monitor with the better warranty (and I'm talking about dead-pixels too)
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By looking into it do you mean what is actually covered and not just the term? Where would one find this information prior to buying the monitor?
 
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By looking into it do you mean what is actually covered and not just the term? Where would one find this information prior to buying the monitor?
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That's EXACTLY what I mean. A quick google should do the trick. I'll check too in a mo'
 
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Seems like a standard warranty across all LG products.

The warranty period commences from the date of purchase by the original owner for a period agreed between LG and the authorised dealer. The original purchase invoice must be produced to enforce the warranty.

At any time within the warranty period the company will at its discretion repair or replace without cost to the owner, if necessary through a service agent appointed by the company, any part found by the company or the agent to be defective.

Only products purchased and retained for use in the Republic of South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho are covered by the warranty.

The warranty covers electrical or mechanical defects that occur within the warranty period which are caused by internal failure of the component concerned and not by outside forces.

Please contact LG Electronics service, or the nearest authorised service centre, or the dealer from where you purchased your product for any warranty claims.
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They also have a twice annual "free service" where they repair their products, which are out of warranty, free of charge! :)
 
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LancelotSA said:
Seems like a standard warranty across all LG products.



They also have a twice annual "free service" where they repair their products, which are out of warranty, free of charge! :)
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Ye, I've heard about those... thought they were a myth though! Don't own any LG products, luckily. Almost bought a DVD writer at the same time as a friend. Bought a Samsung instead. He's had to replace his, mine is still going 5 years later :)
 
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I see the LG has a normal 3 year warranty and the Acer 20" I'm getting (x2 baby) has a 3 year Fetch-Repair-Return .... Lance ..... try squeeze that extra R200 bru ...... :D
 
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I see the LG has a normal 3 year warranty and the Acer 20" I'm getting (x2 baby) has a 3 year Fetch-Repair-Return .... Lance ..... try squeeze that extra R200 bru ...... :D
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I can squeeze it no prob but I have always just had a problem with the Acer name. Is this unfair or are those feelings founded?

EDIT : How much did you pay for yours? And from where? Or is it also PCZone?
 
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PC Zone of course :D and they were R1799 each. I have never heard a bad thing about Acer so here's hoping.
 
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Something else I have been wondering... I saw somewhere, think it was the LG site, where they mention watching TV on your LCD display. Here it is...

The usage and application of today’s monitors are broadening. Its primary use is no longer restricted to work, but also for entertainment purposes.
An increasing number of consumers are viewing movies, animations as well as television content with monitors.
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Now what I want to know is how do you watch TV on one of these 20" monitors? Am I correct in thinking that you cannot plug an aerial directly into them, you obviously need a TV tuner card or something in the computer? Now if that is the case how high spec does your PC need to be? My lighty does not have a top of the range computer but it would be cool if he could watch TV on it with this new display. Is his ability to do this dependant on the graphics card etc or just the monitor and the TV card?

Again any advice or information which I need would be appreciated.
 
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LancelotSA said:
Something else I have been wondering... I saw somewhere, think it was the LG site, where they mention watching TV on your LCD display.



Now what I want to know is how do you watch TV on one of these 20" monitors? Am I correct in thinking that you cannot plug an aerial directly into them, you obviously need a TV tuner card or something in the computer? Now if that is the case how high spec does your PC need to be? My lighty does not have a top of the range computer but it would be cool if he could watch TV on it with this new display. Is his ability to do this dependant on the graphics card etc or just the monitor and the TV card?

Again any advice or information which I need would be appreciated.
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Yes, you can watch TV on a LCD display and you are right in guessing that you'll need a tuner card...

You need at least a 1ghz PC with a graphics card (a powerful graphics card is recommended) to watch TV and it's best to get a hardware encoder based tuner, if you have Vista with Media Center you can get a Hauppauge MCE card with a Microsoft MCE Remote Control(about <R1000 together)and you are set.

I use my PC as an HTPC and I don't have a need for a television or DVD HI-FI system(my system sounds as good as a high end system and of course a LCD display is Hi-Def)

You can download the SA MCE guide from this site...
http://www.mceguide.co.za/
 
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I've run a TV Tuner card very comfortably on a Duron 800MHz. So an entry-level PC these days should run it fun. Alternatively, you get external TV tuners (so no PC even needed) that can do what you want
 
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Yes, you can watch TV on a LCD display and you are right in guessing that you'll need a tuner card...

You need at least a 1ghz PC with a graphics card (a powerful graphics card is recommended) to watch TV and it's best to get a hardware encoder based tuner, if you have Vista with Media Center you can get a Hauppauge MCE card with a Microsoft MCE Remote Control(about <R1000 together)and you are set.

I use my PC as an HTPC and I don't have a need for a television or DVD HI-FI system.

You can download the SA MCE guide from this site...
http://www.mceguide.co.za/
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Hmm sounding like things are getting more expensive now! :)

The system he has is :

Pentium D CPU 3.00Ghz
448Mb RAM
Windows XP
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series graphics

Would putting a cheap TV tuner in here enable him to watch TV? Also would you get all the channels we have on our TV in the lounge on there, like MNet etc if we split the aerial cable that comes out the decoder and plug it into the TV tuner?

Or do I have the whole concept incorrect? Where does the tuner get the signal from? The normal TV aerial?
 
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Hmm sounding like things are getting more expensive now! :)

The system he has is :

Pentium D CPU 3.00Ghz
448Mb RAM
Windows XP
ATI Radeon Xpress 200 Series graphics

Would putting a cheap TV tuner in here enable him to watch TV? Also would you get all the channels we have on our TV in the lounge on there, like MNet etc if we split the aerial cable that comes out the decoder and plug it into the TV tuner?

Or do I have the whole concept incorrect? Where does the tuner get the signal from? The normal TV aerial?
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Yes it's possible to run a cheap tuner on that PC, my PC before was similarly spec'd...

I bought a R300 tuner which included a remote and I was happy but if you try to use your PC as a PVR then you'll get some lag(and crashes with a software encoder) which is why I gave you my recommendations, but a cheap tuner will run fine on that PC.

The tuner will work just like any other TV, you can split the cable if the signal is strong enough and tune the channels with the software provided.

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Yes it's possible to run a cheap tuner on that PC, my PC before was similarly spec'd...

I bought a R300 tuner which included a remote and I was happy but if you try to use your PC as a PVR then you'll get some lag(and crashes with a software encoder) which is why I gave you my recommendations, but a cheap tuner will run fine on that PC.

The tuner will work just like any other TV, you can split the cable if the signal is strong enough and tune the channels with the software provided.

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