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OT: Syntax 30" Olevia LT30HV

Hi Linda,

The Viewing angle is a non-issue with the Syntax 30" Olevia LT30HV

The Default Contrast and Brightness settings needed to be adjusted on the set I received.

The On screen Menu adjustments allow you to tweak the display.

The vast Array of Video Inputs VGA, S-video, DVI, Composite and Two component inputs and Cable ready inputs make this display extremely versatile.

The Display only ships with a VGA cable so expect that you will have to buy cables for what ever devices you want to plug into it.

Using an old Panasonic progressive scan DVD carousel with S-Video rendered excellent quality dvd movie images.

I have not plugged Cable into this device so I'm not sure about the quality of High Definition broadcasts with this display yet.

A unique feature to this Display is the audio output connection for a Subwoofer speaker.

One thing that puzzled me that took a couple of days to figure out was if you add the VGA cable and then add a MacMini with a DVI cable the Display will not accept the DVI input. When I removed the VGA cable from the set the MacMini DVI input worked great.

The second thing that has proven to be a challenge is that the Mac Mini with Panther 10.3.8 does not have the 1280 x 720 resolution video setting by default so I found a very handy piece of shareware DisplayConfigX which allows you to add custom resolutions to the Mac Mini in order to work with the Syntax Display. Their are so many competing video standards and the syntax appears to support most of them download the specs for more info.

I'm posting the link to the Syntax Web site. All the Specs are downloadable PDF files.

http://www.syntaxgroups.com/products/30inch_productd.html