A while back, I hacked together a 32" LCD TV from a wide array of parts. It turned out to be too small. Funny, that, since it's got a widescreen picture the likes of which only the largest old-school tube TVs could approach. I guess it's the HD thing. More detail so you need to be able to see it.
Last Saturday, I got another LCD set. This one had real issues. While it would work correctly with no input signal, any kind of signal would cause it to scramble horribly. I had seen this before. It was power supply related. Replacing the capacitors in the main logic power supply allowed the display to work correctly. Basically, $5 got me a new display. And I grabbed it at the perfect time. The next morning, the ground was wet from fresh rain.
This new display didn't come with a stand of any kind and I knew I wouldn't be able to make one. It was time for a major purchase so I went to Walmart and found a very nice steel and glass LCD stand that would take advantage of the wall mount holes. It only cost me about $170 after taxes so I couldn't complain at all, having ended up with a 42" display for $175.
It doesn't have a tuner so I'll have to buy one. What is does have is a native 1080p image, HDMI input, two component inputs, VGA and the old-school S-Video and composite. It will take a 1920x1200 signal on the VGA input, but it looks noisy. I'll have to try a better cable. I do know that the VGA cable for my XBOX 360 will show a proper display, although it's cut off at the left.
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