Requirements for a new TV

Our 10 year old Standard Definition 4:3 CRT Magnavox television set is aging fast now. And with age come those small nuisances that make life a bit harder. In the case of our tv-set, it's things like the tv-text not working at the moment you need the traffic jams report, sound quiting suddenly, or the picture freezing with the sound continuing, or the picture getting distorted. We even had the tv snowing. The cure to this is a quick re-boot. Just push the on / off button twice and everything is OK. The only problem with this is that the cap of the on / off button has fallen into the TV-set and now you need a screwdriver to push the actual button in order to it off and on again. And no, I cannot open the TV set, because the screws have some strange outlandish format (USA most likely) and they are un-turnable.

So we set out to find a new TV. And before we get it, we need a set of requirements that it has to fulfill:

1. Scart input for the VCR
2. Scart input for the DVD player
3. rgb / scart input for the movies we play of the iPod
4. rgb / scart / hdmi input for the Wii, which is soon replacing our GameCube.
5. hdmi / component in for the Apple TV, which will be replacing the iPod on the TV.
6. Black, so it fits with the rest of our set.
7. Widescreen
8. 82 cm / 32 inch diagonal at most
9. 720p. 1080i would be a bonus.
10. €700,- tops.
    

I've seen a few possible candidates in the local store-leaflets, but most likely they are just teasers to get you into the store where they will sell you something more profitable. The Philips 26PF5321 is looking nice, but we'll see what we end up with.

Zaaf