Still searching...

for the ideal setup but I think I have found something that comes close to it. I'm talking about my new TV and the PS3... at least, what I would like to buy... if my wife would be ok with it :)

Ukdm (from gamedev.net) suggested to take a look at the Samsung screens. So I did and I would like to thank him for this. And for pointing to the avforums. In fact, I learned that some Philips TVs (the constructor I wanted to pick initially) had problems displaying the PS3 signal through HDMI. There seems to be a "lag" between the user input and the screen display, something that isn't reported for ie. the Samsung screens. I learned a lot about screens on that forum :) 

So I spent most time of yesterday morning reading the forum, picking out 3-4 screens I wanted to look at at my local TV store. After some hesitation, I finally decided to pick the Samsung LE40A552. It's slightly smaller (2 inches) than the Philips TV I wanted to take initially, but I compared the displays and I felt more comfortable with the Samsung one. And so did my wife. But...  

While my wife was ok with picking the TV, she was less fine with picking a PS3 in the same time :( I feared something like this. As she felt that I was quite upset (I left the store without buying anything; yes, I can be stubborn), and after some arguing why I want to have a PS3, she said that she would buy me the TV as a birthday present and that I could buy the PS3 myself... Stubborn as I am, I said that this didn't interest me (well, I want to change TV, not her, so I want to pay it all myself), but she said: "You have to come because if I go myself a) I might damage the TV while transporting it myself and b) I might get the wrong one." Never argue with your wife...  

Well... finally all this gave me a real bad head-ache and I went to bed early (like 9 pm); that's why there was no blog update yesterday.  

Have fun, Stefan