I recently bought a 24" 16x9 LG 24MP56 monitor for my home office (to use with my laptop). It has an HDMI input, so I was planning to use it with my laptop (Mini Display to HDMI adapter), my Cambridge Audio DVD99 (to watch DVDs, in particular other region DVDs that don't play on my laptop) and my Sony BDP-S185 Blu-ray (retired from the HT when I installed an Oppo BDP-83 last month).
With static images (as is the case with 80%+ of my intended usage), the picture quality is great. Certainly more than equal to the modest sum I paid for the screen and perfectly fine for me as I don't do photo or video editing. With moving images, whether from iTunes, Netflix (from my laptop) or with DVDs or BDs, on either player, the image quality is also very nice (relative to the price I paid and the limited controls for adjusting the image). However, with moving images, the screen randomly dims, which is highly annoying--and which never happens when I'm not viewing full-screen moving images. At first I thought it was a driver issue with my laptop, or the use of too many adapters (I'm awaiting the arrival of the Mini Display to HDMI adapter, so I'm currently using an HDMI to DVI-D adapter, attached to a DVI-D cable, attached to a DVI-D to Mini Display adapter. However, the issue is the same from either of the two players via straight HDMI, so it's not a computer issue. Normally, I would simply return to the store and exchange it (Costco is pretty good about such things) but I appear to have lost the receipt, so I'm not sure I can get them to take it back. Moreover, I'm not sure it's not a limitation of the display itself (though I consider this unlikely).
Any thoughts? The display only has one HDMI input, so I plug and unplug the needed cable as necessary (I tried to use a switch box I had left over from my pre-HDMI AVR days, but it did not want to work properly--could be because it was dropped by my son @#$@$ ). I'll very likely try to return it and, if they won't take it, keep it as a back up and get another one (as I said, it works perfectly fine for any non-video purpose).
With static images (as is the case with 80%+ of my intended usage), the picture quality is great. Certainly more than equal to the modest sum I paid for the screen and perfectly fine for me as I don't do photo or video editing. With moving images, whether from iTunes, Netflix (from my laptop) or with DVDs or BDs, on either player, the image quality is also very nice (relative to the price I paid and the limited controls for adjusting the image). However, with moving images, the screen randomly dims, which is highly annoying--and which never happens when I'm not viewing full-screen moving images. At first I thought it was a driver issue with my laptop, or the use of too many adapters (I'm awaiting the arrival of the Mini Display to HDMI adapter, so I'm currently using an HDMI to DVI-D adapter, attached to a DVI-D cable, attached to a DVI-D to Mini Display adapter. However, the issue is the same from either of the two players via straight HDMI, so it's not a computer issue. Normally, I would simply return to the store and exchange it (Costco is pretty good about such things) but I appear to have lost the receipt, so I'm not sure I can get them to take it back. Moreover, I'm not sure it's not a limitation of the display itself (though I consider this unlikely).
Any thoughts? The display only has one HDMI input, so I plug and unplug the needed cable as necessary (I tried to use a switch box I had left over from my pre-HDMI AVR days, but it did not want to work properly--could be because it was dropped by my son @#$@$ ). I'll very likely try to return it and, if they won't take it, keep it as a back up and get another one (as I said, it works perfectly fine for any non-video purpose).
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