Acer AT3705-DTV 37in Widescreen LCD TV

Anybody have one in North America yet. I know they have them in Oz and Nz already but those ones are unique to that area. Just want to know if anybody has a North Am version. They are now available in Canada and I am in the process of ordering one . I just wonder if anybody else all ready tried it yet to see if you can get 1080p input/output via DVI or HDMI before I pull the trigger. OR am I going to be the 1st North Am guinea pig .

http://global.acer.com/products/lcd_tv/at3705-MGW.htm

BTW Its a 1920x1080 display. Inconclusive/conflicting Oz amd NZ reviews/reports if the unit can actually support 1080p.

[EDIT] BTW The ACER has detachable side speakers.

Picked up this LCD at The Bay (Canada only) this weekend at a very good price (since I can not post anything about pricing, you will have to go to The Bay to find out). So far it seems that it can not support 1080p via DVI. tried it and it screws up the screen real bad. Tried on HDMI and it seems to do 1080i (real bad image) and not accepatable at all for PC work. The manual states for DVI/VGA the vid card should be set at 1360x768p and it looks ok at this setting. But so far can not get 1080p from a PC output. I am using 7900GTX SLI. Will play some more with the HDMI since thats what some Oz's pple seem to have gotten to work at 1080p. One heavy sucker...even without the side speakers.

No backlite adjustments. Just basic brightness and contrast, color temp (cold, mid-old, standard, mid-warm, warm), scenerios mode (game,movie,sports etc) and noise reduction. Thats about the adjustments on the DVI input.

Follow up:

Well I was able to get the ACER to accept 1920x1080@30hz but not at 60hz via DVI, no luck with the HDMI port tho. I just let the Nvidia panel set up the rez for HD TV and not for a monitor and the sucker sync right in, even at 30hz the text is sharp, no flicker, rock solid. Now go and do some game testing...happy camper now...

EDIT: well after a game test the LCD is screwed up again. 1080i was sharp now its not any more and I can not seem to get it fix to what it was before the game test. Tried 1080p and the set locks out witht "out of range" message and its a bugger to get it bac to any display since even in SAFE MODE the rez 800x600 or 640x480 is not supported by the TV. Have to hook up HDMI to get a pic back as long as I have screwed up the HDMI settings.

For those still intrested.

This LCD over DVI will do 1080p but only at 50hz. Some games like BF2 will not run at 1080p@50hz, but PREY and QUAKE4 at native WS mode not at 1080p will run, Oblivion and GRAW does run at 1080p@50hz. Still a little disapointed that it will not run at 1080p@60hz via DVI.

Will support 1080p at 25/29.97/50hz. Now on to HDMI and VGA testing.

Just a follow up. This set will do 1080p. HDMI and VGA will accept 1080p at 60hz but with a LOT of overscan, I can scale it to fit but then I dont get 1:1. But thru DVI I can get a rock solid 1080p at 50hz at 1:1. This was an issue at one point since some games do not run at 50hz like BF2. But by setting the refresh in the Nvidia vid control panel to 60hz, BF2 runs fine. Its funny but the vid card is doing 60hz referesh and the display is set for 50hz and everthing works fine. All games are now working at 1080p at 50hz. GRAW and Oblivion always support 1080p at 50hz with now probm. But by setting the refresh rate to 60hz all games are now working.

EDIT: The games seem to be running at 60hz even tho the display OSD shows 1920x1080p @ 50hz, I have a Logitech G15 keyboard and I programed the LCD display to show the display settings for benchmarking and it shows 1920x1080p @ 60hz and its seems that games are running at 60hz. I just reran PREY demo and I get a locked 60fps.

But Darkstar One demo is locked at 50fps (game maybe?)...so I am lost as to what the real refresh rate is but hey its all working either at 50/60hz fine so I am just sweating the small stuff .


EDIT2: just ran QUAKE 4 with Vsync on and the frames are around 60fps.

Yes some but not a major issue since that rarely happens. But I only really happens when I am watching DVDs, so I just set the rehresh to 50hz when I do that. It does not happens often enuf in games so I tend to leave it at 60hz (esp for BF2) where games that do not offer 50hz. Oblivion and GRAW both support 50hz. PREY, and all the other DOOM engined games seem to work since they have their own widescreen settings that just fills the display at what ever rez you set from their offerings.

Just a word of warning if plpe is using Nvidia vid cards. Their 9 series drivers has major issues with DVD play back. The drivers will work (a few mins to an hour sometimes) for a while then goes nuts leaving the display with corrupt image or locked black and white horz stripes. I spent 2 weeks trying to resolve this and finally DL some mod'd 8 series ( http://www.driverheavendownloads.net/zeropoint.htm ) drivers and the DVD issue disappeared. Games were never a prob after the 1st week, after fig'ing how to make them run.

EDIT: just retested the display and with the new drivers I can not set the vid card refresh to 50hz anymore without text corruption (still testing). But at 60hz with the display set for 50hz, tearing only appears when there is a stobe like image on the screen such as in beginning of Starwars 1 (ep: 4) when the door on rebel ship is blown open, there is a tear just at its brigtest part.

EDIT: EDIT: my bad...50hz still can be set, just a little brain dump and now reset and everything is as it should be again .

Note that this is only used with a PC. I am mainly using this display as a monitor. I havent used any other inputs except the DVI, HDMI and VGA for testing. I have mine connected with DVI since both the HDMI and VGA is OScanned too much and both didnt look as sharp as the DVI. It seems that the HDMI is converted to anolog (????) inside the set since the PC image is no where as sharp as when connected by DVI.

Also when running "some" games with the vid refresh rate of 60hz set, the display OSD shows 1920x1080@30hz and some show 50hz. But BF2 regardless of setting runs at its max of 100fps regardless.

EDIT2: Tearing is very minor and its seems I am making it sound worst then it really is but its not. I quess I am still sweating over the small stuff to much...TESTing continues..