Using a non Apple Display with the Mini

I am considering purchasing a Mac Mini.
It will be installed in my living room and connected to my stereo to play music from iTunes.
In this area I only have about 19 inches of width. So I'm looking at purchasing a non Apple display that will fit in this width.
What requirements should I look for in a display (hopefully to avoid adapters)?

Recommend you buy from someplace that has a good exchange/return policy.
Thanks, I always do, especially with a display.
Some places have a policy that requires a certain number of dead pixels before they will accept a return.
I ALWAYS test a display with 'Pixel Tester' immediately. If I find ANY defective pixels I return the display, and I never say the word "pixel" to them.
having one dead pixel that is white, for example, while all others show color, can be annoying.
And hard to re-sell later. Look on ebay, you will find many ads for used computers and displays that say "No Dead Pixels".

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1. Regular analogue TVs don't have a fixed horizontal "resolution" - they have a fixed number of lines per field and a fixed number of fields per second. Interlacing is used to combine two fields into a single frame. Analogue TV is not based around pixels or samples - so the horizontal resolution is not fixed. However there is a typical maximum resolution that can be carried - and these days broadcast TV is produced using digital standards based around the analogue standards - and this factors this in.
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* 625 lines at 50 fields per second. This is used in Europe, Australasia, parts of South America, and large sections of the Middle East, Asia and the Far East. Both PAL and SECAM colour systems are used - in varying flavours.
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* 525 lines at 60 fields per second. This is used in North America, Japan, Korea, parts of South America etc. It is widely used with NTSC colour systems - though Brazil uses a variant of PAL.
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