[mythtv-users] LCD HDTV recommendations (that are Myth friendly)...

[Willy Boyd]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Andrew Close <aclose at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Marc Sherman <msherman at projectile.ca> wrote:
>
>  >  Another minor issue that often gets overlooked when choosing a tv is the
>  >  availability of discrete IR controls for power and input selection. My
>  >  current tv has neither, and we're constantly fiddling with our remote to
>  >  get things into the right state whenever someone's been using it for
>  >  something other than mythtv.
>
>  Marc, please forgive my ignorance. :)  but what to you mean by
>  'discrete IR controls' for power and input?
>

He means a discrete IR signal for each input -- i.e. being able to
switch directly to VGA, HDMI, Svideo1, etc etc.  I know because I got
an Olevia 42" also lacking this and it utterly sucks.  You have one
button/code to cycle through the inputs.  And it doesn't exactly
switch inputs very fast.  This was an annoyance even after I got my
nice Harmony remote that can do all the thinking for me.  Finally I
got an upscaling receiver so everything is going to the HDMI source on
the tv now.  Next TV purchase I will be confirming how much control is
possible for sure.