Precisely my experience with a Sony LCD tv, Nathan. It would accept only
signals with weird pixel dimensions which I assume correspond with Vaio. So
much for Sony interpretation of HDMI standards. No problem at all with LG.
Piers
On 13 Apr 2014 09:44, "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have never owned a Sony camera, and now I know for sure that I never
> will.
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> We just bought a 65-inch Sony Bravia TV, one of the latest models, not
> cheap to put it mildly. Great picture, but we have struggling for 2 days
> with the simple task (or should be simple) to connect a garden variety
> laptop to the TV using its wifi interface so that the TV in effect acts as
> a computer monitor, but without the clutter of HDMI cables and all that.
> The menus and instructions for Sony products were apparently originally
> written in Klingon, then translated into Japanese and then to English. And
> it appears that unless your computer is a Sony Vaio, you have to perform
> various unnatural acts. Everything Sony seems to be proprietary.
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> I think the TV is going back to the store (fortunately, we bought
> locally), to be replace by a Samsung or LG.
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
> Alicante, Spain
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