ATI w/ HDTV

Im looking into purchasing a LCD HDTV roughly 32inch in size for my macpro to use both in windows and osx.
I was wondering if anyone had any good tips on picking one and what i should look for as resolutions will be a tad picky, i tried a 32inch hdtv lcd on it at one point but the settings were not well adjusted as part of viewing area [menu bars] were cut off and tried editing the settings but could never get osx to view it properly though ive seen some photos and articles saying its possible and those with a nice resolution setting.
any good ideas, tips?
im assuming, with regards to that an hdtv isnt a dedicated computer monitor, but if i switched from OSX to Windows like in normally do with my ACD the resolution should stay consistent when i switch so i dont have to adjust it each and every time?
thanks in advanced

I bought a 37" Westinghouse 1080P LCD TV as a display for my mac pro and my windows lapop, and I am really happy with it. If you can get a 32" 1080P TV (they are hard to find) Sharp makes one, but it is about $1,300, then get it, but 37" TVs are easier to find with 1080P resolution. If you don't get a 1080P TV and your TV can only do 1080i, then you wil be running your display at 1366 x 768 resolution, but if you get a 1080P display, then you can run it at 1920 x 1080, a big increase in resolution. I love my Westinghouse and it had 6HD inputs - 1 HDMI, 2 x DVI, 1 x VGA, 2 x Component. It has no internal tuner, but my cable company requires a seperate box anyway. I don't know what your price range is, but I got mine for $1,005 off of Amazon. The model is LVM-37W3. I highly reccomend it. Westinghouse makes a 32" version but it is not 1080P. Once I set the resolution on my Mac and PC for the first time, I never had to change it, no matter how many times I switched back and forth. If you can afford to get a 1080P display - get it, it is definately worth the money for the increased resolution - 1,024,512 more pixels. Hope this is helpful.

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good is because the tv is downgrading the sigal to
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My tv doesn't have DVI only HDMI, but I have a HDMI to DVI cable.
So even though the tv is only supposed to capable of 720p, the card pushes it higher, then the tv the downgrades the signal again? The tv itself says 1080i when I switch it over to the HDMI input whereas my directv input signal says 720p.
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my 20" ACD with a 26" LCD tv that can double as my
monitor vs buying a usb tv input device for the DA.
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Check the native resolution of the tv you're considering. It didn't dawn on me till later, but my 17in flat panel imac g4 has a better native resolution then the 26in tv. so even though its bigger, not really gaining any extra space.

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adapters, or the HDTV as the culprit of the problem.
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confirm that the tv properly accepts s-video
connections from a computer and not just from a dvd
player.
You say that with SSD you can use a second monitor so
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Hey Mac Community... here's a tough one.
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well, that's kind of have an old school tube. I think it's gonna cost ya a pretty penny to do what you want to do with high quality or you can try this:
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This post will expire and the link will die so all I did was search for DVI to RGB and got a bunch of cables.
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x0019CAEF): Unresolved kernel trap (CPU 0, Type 0=divide error), registers:
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