On 28 October 2010 19:43, Tim Green timothy.j.green@gmail.com wrote:
If the computers have DVI or HDMI output then any new TV with HDMI input will be a good start. I strongly recommend taking the laptop to a TV store to try them out before buying one because some TV's do funny things to the picture which you wouldn't expect from a digital connection (e.g. crop and stretch).
I was using HDMI out from my Ubuntu media box to my TV, I found the colours were off (not massively but enough to ruin the experiance) so I use VGA, works just great [0]
[0] I did initially have some issues with screen tear, adding the following [1] to my xorg.conf sorted that out although I think since updating my nVidia drivers from 190.53 to 256.35 I don't need this any more but I haven't gotten round to taking it out. I believe there was an error in the drivers that causes the card to "over-refresh" faster than the agreed upon refresh rate in the nVidia utility, hence the screen tear.
[1]: Section "Extensions" Option "Composite" "Disable" EndSection