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> So I just bought a Samsung LN46C550 46" LCD TV, one of the cheaper 46" I could find. After having a little fun with making an antenna from a key ring (which picked up 22 channels), I went off and bought a cheap antenna and a HDMI cable to hook it up with my computer. I have a ATI 780g board from ECS and everything kinda just worked when I connected the cable and set the TV's input to HDMI. Only kinda, as I will explain below.
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> The first problem was the screen sometimes flickers. This was especially problematic when [XBMC](http://xbmc.org/) is running. Eventually this was solved by upgrading my drivers from [Ubuntu-X](https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates).
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> Another problem is metacity always opens new windows in the "first" screen, where "first" is defined as left to right and top to bottom. Which means that they are often opened on the TV even when it's off. Haven't found a solution yet, but it would probably involve checking why it is not detecting that the TV is off.
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> A more major problem is resolution. The TV's native resolution is 1920x1080 which is 16:9, but my main monitor is running 1680x1050 which is 16:10. When I set those respective resolutions, part of the screen is chopped off from the top, left, and bottom. If I turn off the smaller monitor, it is a little better in that only the left side is chopped off. This problem goes away if I set the TV to 1680x1050. I was going to try the fglrx driver but it refuses to install. Again, no solution yet, but I wonder if it's the same bug as [this bug](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480633). 
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> I mentioned XBMC earlier. I found a remote control application for XBMC on Andriod which works quite well, it can even do wake-on-lan on my desktop which I didn't realize would work without prior setup. However it doesn't seem to have any integration with video websites like Hulu, YouTube or Amazon Video on Demand. Consider that I am not going buy a lot of DVDs and rip them, XBMC is not very useful to me. I will likely end up writing a small launcher application for the small handful of things that I will do on TV.
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> The Samsung TV supports DLNA and is able to play video files from DLNA devices, which [Rygel](http://live.gnome.org/Rygel) is able to serve video files to. Except Samsung's DLNA implementation doesn't seem to support any kind of control for DLNA'ed video aside from stopping. No pause, no fast-forward or rewind, which makes the whole thing pretty useless.
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> My wireless keyboard and mouse was shipped to the office when I was off to Denver, probably will end up on my TV a lot more often once I have those, which will probably motivate me more to look into solving all those problems.