I think you're moving the goal-posts here - I don't believe that the quality seen from S-video-out from a PC is relevant (and you've certainly not mentioned it before), since so much will depend on the capabilities of the PC's graphics card.
So, let's get back to basic:
To try to establish whether or not the LG is duff, you need to input a known good signal and, as I've already suggested, I think that your best option - assuming you have a DVD player (a standalone set-top DVD player, not a DVD-ROM drive in your PC), is to connect that, via S-video to the TV set.
If the picture from DVD via S-video is not good, then, in my view, you've every right to ask for your money back and to buy something different from where ever you choose.
The same would be true if the set fails to give a good picture when used as a PC monitor - that's assuming you have correctly set up your PC's graphics card to output at 1280 x 1024 at 32-bit colour (and the right refresh rate), and have also adjusted the LG properly.
If the picture from DVD via S-video is good, then you need to see whether any other AV products you want to connect to the TV set also have S-video-out capabilities.
If they do, but can only output S-video via Scart, then you need to buy a dedictated Scart-to-S-video lead for each one - a lead that has an S-video output at the TV end. My first port of call would be at a computer fair.
As for your assertion that, "Another thing, surely if the TV can display PC Images and games it is High definition compatible?" - I'm left floundering.
Why would you conclude that a TV set able to display PC images (in effect, a PC monitor) and display games (from a PC) is High Definition?
I simply don't understand why you might draw that conclusion.
Check out the info available from the
EICTA - the European trade body that thought up the HD ready idea (as a way of ensuring consumers know whether a set they're going to buy is genuinely HD capable) - to understand the definition of HD ready.
Here is an extract from one of the
key licensing documents :
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A display device has to cover the following requirements to be awarded the logo HD ready:
1. Display, display engine
The minimum native resolution of the display or display engine is 720
physical lines in wide aspect ratio.
2. Video Interfaces
The display device accepts HD input via:
o Analogue YPbPr1, and
o DVI or HDMI
HD capable inputs accept the following HD video formats:
o 1280x720 @ 50 and 60Hz progressive (720p), and
o 1920x1080 @ 50 and 60Hz interlaced (1080i)
The DVI or HDMI input supports content protection (HDCP)
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So, your idea that having some particular PC-related capabilities clearly isn't in any way relevant to whether or not a TV set is HD ready, and nor is there, as best as I can see, anything in the LG's spec that suggests it might be HD-capable, HD ready, or anything else HD.
Oh, and for the record,
here is LG UK's page about the product, and
here are the specs, as listed by CNet (and rather more detailed than LG's!).
Bob
Originally Posted by alexander Thanks for the responses.
The model number is the LG M1710A:
http://prices.cnet.co.uk/televisions...126586p,00.htm
The inputs it has is:
VGA Computer (Not DVI)
S-Video
3-Coloured one which turns into a scart at the other end
Sound
I tried the S-VIdeo with my computer and it says that it only goes up to 1024 x another number and it looked really, really bad.
Another thing, surely if the TV can display PC Images and games it is High definition compatible?