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    [–] M137@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (11 children)

    I use an old Sony TV from around 2008 as my monitor, I can turn on the TV and via my laptop screen shut the laptop down then manually boot again and it'll be fully booted before the TV is ready and showing the desktop. Got it from my neighbours when they tried to throw it out, it's not amazing but I'm very happy to have it as I wouldn't have anything other than the even more shitty 720p laptop screen otherwise.

    [–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

    Yup, my Sony Bravia is great for movies except some quirks:

    • takes over 10 seconds to sync to HDMI
    • panel is 1366Γ—768 but only 1360Γ—768 is accessible over HDMI (it can be shifted up to 3 pixels left/right though)
    • its LUT for color brightness is all messed up with RGB HDMI signals, the lowest 30 or so brightness steps map to full black and then the brightness takes off steeply. A YCbCr-capable GPU is needed to correct this (an inverse LUT is techniclly possible but will not compensate for the awfully giant steps in dark areas unless the GPU also adds dithering).
    [–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    And it accepts 1080p, but downsamples it to the resolution you mentioned.

    [–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Nah, just 1080i. And this will fill the screen (in fact, with slight overscan) but obviously native resolution is better.

    Some Bravia models had 6 analog inputs (not counting VGA+3.5mm), at least one of which was a full-featured SCART port with RGB support and AV output to the VCR. And interlaced content worked seamlessly, and probably looked better than on modern TVs.

    [–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    I believe my Bravia was showing 1080p when connected to PS3 via HDMI, but I might be misremembering. But yes, it had inputs galore on the back.

    I believe that, it is a wide range of LCD TVs from pocket models to projection monsters.

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