Makro Sinotec Full HD Special

Agreed, that's exactly what I've decided to do and I'm going for the 42" LCD at R8k. Would love the 47" LCD but cannot justify the R4k premium for an extra 5 inches...
 
Yes I mean RGB. You can buy a converter that takes that input and converts it HDMI and then allows you to select 720p. Will there be a major difference on my DSTV signal?
 
Okay so I got my 42" Sinotec LCD today, not bad, not blown away by it but perhaps my expectations are too high.

In relation to my 3 year old Pvision Plasma though no comparison, it annihilates the Pvision in every department, brightness, sharpness, contrast, colour etc etc etc Pvision looks positively tired in comparison.

There is however the issue of motion blur. Watched some prerecorded rugby and I think this phenomenon is prevalent on the LCD, it's only 50htz after all and has a response time of 6.5ms. Might just be psychological though as I am looking and expecting motion blur. Not sure if what I'm experiencing is motion blur or not. SD feed is pretty weak too...

Think I will get the 50" Sammy for the lounge:D

pics here and here..
 
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sandmanm34 said:
Okay so I got my 42" Sinotec LCD today, not bad, not blown away by it but perhaps my expectations are too high.

In relation to my 3 year old Pvision Plasma though no comparison, it annihilates the Pvision in every department, brightness, sharpness, contrast, colour etc etc etc Pvision looks positively tired in comparison.

There is however the issue of motion blur. Watched some prerecorded rugby and I think this phenomenon is prevalent on the LCD, it's only 50htz after all and has a response time of 6.5ms. Might just be psychological though as I am looking and expecting motion blur. Not sure if what I'm experiencing is motion blur or not. SD feed is pretty weak too...

Think I will get the 50" Sammy for the lounge:D

pics here and here..
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Are those your kids? :)
 
eish sandman.....now i was thinking about getting the 42' but you dont seem too thrilled about it :P? do you think the overall price for what you got is still excellent or Ok :)
 
Anybody know why the 42" Sinotec that Makro is selling is not on the Sinotec website? Can anybody tell me what inputs it has? I know it has 2x HDMI, but what about VGA?

Anybody here been successful in connecting their lcd tv screen to a new mac with a mini displayport connector?
 
matt loves telkom said:
eish sandman.....now i was thinking about getting the 42' but you dont seem too thrilled about it :P? do you think the overall price for what you got is still excellent or Ok :)
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I think I'm just being over critical matt, my wife says it's awesome. I still believe it is sensationally good value for money yes...


mjkelly said:
Can anybody tell me what inputs it has? I know it has 2x HDMI, but what about VGA?
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It has vga yes. Haven't had time to connect my laptop to it but at 1920 x 1080 I would imagine the images to be superb... My HP also has HDMI out so... Happy days...:)

EDIT: Okay, connected laptop to LCD 1st via VGA to VGA then HDMI to HDMI, HDMI is stunning while VGA appears to be a bit blurry. What I don't understand is when I set the laptop output resolution to 1920 x 1080 the displayed image is too big for the 42" screen... 1600 x 1200 fits perfectly...
 
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sandmanm34 said:
What I don't understand is when I set the laptop output resolution to 1920 x 1080 the displayed image is too big for the 42" screen... 1600 x 1200 fits perfectly...
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I have the same "problem" on my 47" Sinotech. Check in the Sinotech LCD menus for an option that says "Overscan" and enable that. Then 1920 x 1080 should fit perfectly.
 
sandmanm34 said:
Okay so I got my 42" Sinotec LCD today, not bad, not blown away by it but perhaps my expectations are too high.

In relation to my 3 year old Pvision Plasma though no comparison, it annihilates the Pvision in every department, brightness, sharpness, contrast, colour etc etc etc Pvision looks positively tired in comparison.

There is however the issue of motion blur. Watched some prerecorded rugby and I think this phenomenon is prevalent on the LCD, it's only 50htz after all and has a response time of 6.5ms. Might just be psychological though as I am looking and expecting motion blur. Not sure if what I'm experiencing is motion blur or not. SD feed is pretty weak too...

Think I will get the 50" Sammy for the lounge:D

pics here and here..
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Sweet setup you got there. I can't believe that the Sinotech only has a 50Hz refresh rate. That's pretty weak. It should be around 120.
 
qinglung said:
I have the same "problem" on my 47" Sinotech. Check in the Sinotech LCD menus for an option that says "Overscan" and enable that. Then 1920 x 1080 should fit perfectly.
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Thanks, will check, don't recall seeing any such option though, bear in the mind the 47" menu and 42" menu are different...

Sweet setup you got there. I can't believe that the Sinotech only has a 50Hz refresh rate. That's pretty weak. It should be around 120.
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Thanks. Actually 50Hz is pretty much par, thought it was 60Hz and apparently there is a noticebale difference between 50Hz and 60Hz. 100Hz and up is sweet, very sweet. Going back to Makro to get the Samsung 50" Plasma, also 50Hz for R12k but they also have a 42" Plasma on special, 100Hz for R9.5k... Not sure which one to get, will decide once I'm there I guess..
 
mercurial said:
Sweet setup you got there. I can't believe that the Sinotech only has a 50Hz refresh rate. That's pretty weak. It should be around 120.
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dude, even Samsungs and Bravia's usually have 100Hz, which are way more expensive...you can't expect 120Hz ontop of the cheap price... :erm:
 
sandmanm34 said:
Thanks, will check, don't recall seeing any such option though, bear in the mind the 47" menu and 42" menu are different...

Thanks. Actually 50Hz is pretty much par, thought it was 60Hz and apparently there is a noticebale difference between 50Hz and 60Hz. 100Hz and up is sweet, very sweet. Going back to Makro to get the Samsung 50" Plasma, also 50Hz for R12k but they also have a 42" Plasma on special, 100Hz for R9.5k... Not sure which one to get, will decide once I'm there I guess..
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Plasma also 50Hz? Then it's probably the response time on that Sinotech that's killing you.
 
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