I absolutely love it! Unfortunately it took all the extra time I had last night just to rearrange my desk to accomodate its HUGENESS, to get my video card to detect it in Windows, and to pack up my Dell 2408wfp that I just sold. I didn't even have time to play one game on it
I have a 2900Pro and used the DVI-to-HDMI adapter that came with it. It would show up during boot or in safe mode but would be blank once it got into Windows, and Windows wouldn't detect it. I wound up borrowing the DVI-to-HDMI cable from my HTPC, and that worked right away. Once I set the correct resolution with that cable, I was able to switch back to the adapter, and it worked.
I went into the advanced picture options on the TV and changed the HD Size to Size 2 (that's how you do 1:1 pixel mapping, and you definitely want it set that way with a computer). I also changed the sharpness to 0. Those two changes made text and web pages look 10 times better.
My picture still wasn't filling the screen, and I read that ATI CCC defaults to 10-12% overscan. I opened ATI CCC and changed the overscan to 0%, and the picture perfectly filled the screen. Some people mentioned they had to set the refresh rate to 59 instead of 60, but I didn't have to do that.
I then tried the settings from
this post at Hard Forum, and they're OK. The colors are way, way off, so I know I can't leave it that way. I'm coming from a Dell 2408wfp with near-perfect colors, so I don't know if I'll be able to settle for colors that are so far off. I'll see if I can find some other settings to try. I guess I could always borrow my friends BD player and use my DVE basics calibration BD, but I'm not sure if that would work right on the computer, and it might be too much trouble as well.
The only "problem" I've found so far is that when I drag a windows from the TV to my 20" 1600x1200 monitor, it becomes half the size it was
. I guess that's a good problem to have though!
My long-term plan is to place it on an articulating wall mount like
this one and scoot my desk back about 6". I'm about 2 to 2.5' from the screen right now, and I think it would look better being about 6" farther back. It would also free up some much-needed desk space. I have a couch and my bike trainer in that room, and the articulating mount will allow me to extend the TV away from the wall and rotate it towards either the bike or the couch, which will allow my computer setup to act as a second HT room.
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